A beautiful hedge offers many benefits to a home garden. A wall of green can be a barrier between your space and the outside world, can define a space in your landscape, will dampen road noise, can ...

You might recall that when a reader wrote about twin rows of Italian cypress — one established and healthy, the other newer and dying — the SoCal Garden Clinic asked a Pasadena nurseryman to tackle ...

Edible hedges are a great way to fit more food into your landscape. Have a property line with nothing growing on the border? Have an annoying view of a road or apartment building? Plant for the future ...

Fine out why mixed-species hedgerows are becoming so popular and how you can create one at home ...

Many of our customers are searching for hardy shrubs to be used as privacy hedges or for the purpose of screening undesirable views. When selecting plants to use as a hedge, it is important to ...

One of the side effects of new construction is the matter of backyard privacy. Or, more specifically, lack of it. People who move into bulldozer-prepped subdivisions quickly realize their decks and ...

With houses being built more closely together, it’s often hard to find privacy. But homeowners can plant shrubs that will quickly grow into a barrier screen to block out neighbors or a busy road, ...

Q. What do you think about mixing nandina into an azalea hedge to fill in holes and add some needed height? The hedge runs along a shared road the length of our property and the azaleas are not yet ...

Benjamin Franklin famously advised, "Love your neighbor, yet don’t pull down your hedge." Unfortunately, hedges have generally been pulled down to make way for fences and walls; hard barriers that are ...

Tijana Blanusa works for the Royal Horticultural Society, and is based at the University of Reading. This project was funded by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (Built Environment ...