Creative Ways to Add Privacy 🪴 Landscape design strategies for instantly private backyards

Seeking ideas and creative ways to add privacy? Learn specific, creative landscape design strategies for instantly private backyards, even tall, narrow, and low cost solutions in case you have a small space or you are on a budget. These tips go beyond fences and hedges and tall trees. After watching this video, you’ll be able to look out into your landscape and come up with creative ideas that are faster alternatives to the typical solutions.

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🌱 PART 1 OF THIS PRIVACY DESIGN SERIES… How to design instant privacy for your yard 🪴 DIY Landscape Design Strategy:

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🌱 How to make a landscaping project look finished fast:

And if you’re new here, hello! My name is Eve Hanlin, I’m a certified horticulturist and landscape designer from the Pacific Northwest corner of the USA. I've offered in-person landscape design services for years and now I am taking landscape design online by offering digital courses and resources for do-it-yourselfers. This is my new business: Garden Project Academy.

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[gardenprojectacademy]

I HAVE EXCITING NEWS!
🪴 Design-Your-Own Landscape Layout ONLINE COURSE 🪴is now OPEN for enrollment!
For do-it-yourselfers who want to create their own landscape design, but just need a little extra guidance.

I’ll walk you through the design process, step by step, so you can create a practical, hand-drawn "layout plan" (a landscape design plan that shows the layout of the finished design).

Learn more and sign up, here!

[md]

Love that you jump right in - no blah blah blah preamble for 10 minutes.
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Oh yes, subject matter fantastic too.

[Serai]

An easy way to weigh down a curtain is to open a small hole in the hem and pour sand into it, then close up the hole.

[michellel]

I appreciate how you pack a lot of info in a quick manner. No need to have a long drawn out video.

[MrsMMcG]

I have bamboo in huge tubs—love it! When the stalks dry out, I use them for stakes in my veggie gardens. It’s free! ☺️

[guyh.]

Way around the fence rule is plant arborvitae or yews. Code Inspector can't do anything about it. And I should know. I'm employed in Planning and Zoning

[dorothybenteu]

You can plant moringa, it grows fast and its food, super healthy to eat. About 12 years ago i ordered seeds on line.

[ExposingFamilyCourt]

Im a cancer patient. I started planting and "tending" to my flowers while in treatment, it became therapeutic for me. However, I failed to properly plan what I was planting and failed to plan for privacy. I desperately need privacy in a few spaces and now motivated to plant with some guidance from tour videos thatvare auper helpful! Thank you!

[rmcnally]

I love that you included the "not all privacy is fast" portion-- never hesitate to remind all of us that plants take time!! 😅

[karenkarocrueltyfreebuty]

This is your first video I have watched. I was blown away. Fast, concise and packed full of ideas. Thank you.

[Dbb]

Great video! My bf planted the yews about three years ago and they are now about 12 feet and block traffic headlights that used to be very annoying. I built a fence between my house and neighbors using wood lattice instead of full fence panels. It’s pretty and I found premade wood frames to edge them with. They are now close to 20 years old and still in great shape! Neighbors laughed when I put it in and said it wouldn’t last. Guess I got the last laugh. 😊

[AnnekeOosterink]

We have a fence in between our neighbour's garden and ours, that we built ourselves. It's basically a bunch of wooden poles with a pole over top for stability. We put up large chicken wire onto the frame. The first summer it was basically completely open, but by now the grape and the wisteria have covered the entire thing. The houses here all have balconies, so you can see into people's yards all the time. Our neighbours have put up a bamboo screen on top of a wooden frame, and we're waiting for the wisteria to get big enough that we can let it grow along wires over the terrace. There was a passionfruit and clematis somewhere as well, but they didn't do well in our garden. Honestly, my approach to gardening is, if it won't do well when I neglect it, it doesn't belong in my garden. Worked well so far, I have many bushes, a geranium bed, a few trees, lots of hostas and ferns.
We planted an almond tree in the middle, which needs to fill in a bit and grow a little more, but in a year or two it will block the view into our bedroom too.

[breee]

After watching this video i did a bunch of research about bamboo and purchased a Fargesia Rufa for my yard. Thank you so much for the super great ideas!

[theoryofpersonality]

I also use carpet outside and have for years. I learned I could do this from a man who owned a carpet company and had nice carpet outside. When I asked about it he said oh that's been there 30 years. Put landscape fabric under it and nothing grows through it. Take an area that has erosion and then put the carpet upside down and put seeds on the back. The seeds will grow roots through it and won't be able to be washed away.

[Peachy]

I planted limelight hydrangea and in 3 years I have a hedge I can't see over and is beautiful! I also planted angel trumpet in large whiskey barrels and in one season it was 8 feet tall and just as wide. I do have to bring them into my garage and over winter but it is worth it! Not only are they beautiful but the blooms are gigantic and fill the air with a beautiful fragrance!

[lillybrooks]

I agree with many of the other comments about how there’s no unnecessary chitchat to lead you into the conversation about privacy options and all that… I will however expand upon the bamboo theme, because if you get the kind of bamboo that CAN spread, it WILL SPREAD. And it can EASILY grow OVER 6 feet in any direction, including straight down, including growing underneath roadways, and come up under your house, and push up underneath your house and any other structures, destroying them completely!!!! I certainly love most plants, and I think I might even be tempted to plant some sort of miniature bamboo, but only in a container, simply because I have seen firsthand at my mothers home and property how absolutely devastating bamboo can be, and how utterly impossible it is to eradicate!!! I do love the way it looks, and I love the way it is useful, but I absolutely would never ever plant it… AND I’m now a subscriber!! !

[theoryofpersonality]

I just stuck regular curtains outside. They have been outside three years with no problems. I put a few rocks in the bottom and stiched them up.

[sarahs.]

This is by far the best backyard pravacy video on Youtube. I have seen them all. She covered everything. Thank you.❤

[es-hsfd]

We have clumping bamboos in the ground and have had zero spreading problems with them.

[MsLucinana]

I'm so glad I found your channel. I love everything about it. Your clear to the point presentation. Such helpful tips.Plus you are a great girl. Will use your tips in my Czech garden. Thank you xxx