As the old saying goes, good fences make good neighbors. In fact, even homeowners with great neighbors like their privacy – ...

If you're looking to camouflage a chain link fence in your backyard or add a lovely backdrop to your garden, planting a combination of shrubs and flowers along your property line will do the trick—and ...

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 ...

Shedstore has updated its Garden Trellis Ideas for Climbing Plants & Walls guide and infographic, drawing on customer ...

With their strong lines and solid structure, fences are just begging to be planted with vines and other climbing plants. Climbers add dimension and vertical movement to the garden, breaking up the ...

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 ...

Those post-Irene pictures of toppled trees slicing into houses was enough to make anyone cringe. Now that most of the carnage has been chainsawed and chipped away, the question is what to do about all ...

Sometimes a gardener needs a little privacy or a boundary. The typical solution? Throw up the ubiquitous wooden fence. A living fence is an appealing alternative. Evergreens provide year-round screens ...

Anyone who lives next door to someone who thinks it’s a good idea to turn old toilets into petunia potties knows that when it comes to gardening, beauty truly may be only in the eye of the beholder.