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Privacy
Intrusion -
How
to keep out those prying eyes
Living in the
city or suburbs these days, with cluster home developments and small
lot zoning, can make for quite an up close and personal view of
your neighbors. Although togetherness can be nice, there are times
when we all wish we could get a little more privacy.
Plants provide a friendly alternative to putting up walls or fences
to block out unwanted glances, while still letting the light shine
through.
There are many
ways you can use plants for privacy:
- Let vines
climb fences or trellises to create a green wall of leaves.
- Put several
containers of tall plants in a row to create a living fence.
- Put upright
plants in window boxes or trailing plants in hanging baskets to
provide a gentle screen for any window.
- Use tall
evergreen shrubs that keep their leaves year-round to block the
view through the winter months.
Take advantage
of the portability of plants in containers to improve your privacy.
Not only can container plants be wheeled about, but you can hang
them and unhang them, even use a pulley to raise and lower hanging
plants.
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