Beginner Gardening: Landscaping of Front Lawn to Obstruct Ugly View , 1 by ecrane3

ecrane3 wrote:
I don't know how big your front yard is, but what I've done in my yard is to basically cut the front yard in half--I put a black wrought-iron look fence, then created a little sitting area behind the fence, the vision is that eventually it will feel like a little private courtyard. So if you don't want things right up along the street, you could do something similar, create a little private area closer to the house, and plant your screen there.

Here's a pic of my area so you can see what I've done--I haven't done too much in terms of creating privacy yet, but you can imagine if I planted some taller things along the little fence it could create that effect.