About this time every year as we anticipate warm weather and outdoor living, privacy in our backyards comes under scrutiny. And once again we long for an 8-foot screen to shield a neighbor or some ...

While at once enamored with the close community of her small-town home in southern France, ex-pat Annie Moore and her husband, Colin, knew they'd also need to address the privacy question when they ...

Bamboo is well known for spreading aggressively once planted in the garden. It is the main reason people give for not growing bamboo. What if you could move your bamboo screen whenever you wish ...

Plus, you won't have to deal with staining, painting, or weatherproofing for your screen to look its best year-round. When taking on a DIY project using bamboo, you can assemble the reeds as close ...

This patch of clumping bamboo is leaning behind a white-blooming spirea coming out of winter. Q: My husband and I have a natural tree line between us and our new neighbors. We have 41/2 acres, and ...

A SMALL rotten picket fence, that is suffocating under the weight of unruly ivy and bindweed sits between myself and my neighbours. We both have 80ft gardens, but the evening sun lands on my side of ...

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