How to Create Privacy & Place Trees (real landscape drawing example)

Plant Perfect Activity Book: https://www.prettypurpledoor.com/plantperfect

Learn how to assess a property for privacy and function in landscape design. In this video I’ll show you my real-life landscape design process for assessing a property for privacy issues and function in a backyard using client photos. You’ll learn tips, tricks and practical information for creating privacy in your backyard and on a patio with overlooking second story neighbors and an unsightly view of a large garage and parking area.

I’ll be walking you through some super practical steps in landscape design. We’ll be tackling the whole deal with privacy and making sure your outdoor space is as functional as can be.

Imagine this: you’ve got second-story neighbors giving you the old eagle eye, and there’s this not-so-pretty view of a giant garage and parking area. Well, fear not! I’ve got some seriously cool tricks to help you deal with these issues and turn your backyard into a personal paradise.

But we’re not just stopping at privacy. We’ll also dive into the nitty-gritty of making your space work like a charm. Think about having different zones in your backyard – a chill spot to hang out, a lush garden area and a place to throw epic outdoor parties. I’ll share some down-to-earth advice on how to lay out your space smartly, making sure every inch serves a purpose.

So, get ready to join me in this video adventure where we’ll have a blast transforming your backyard into the ultimate hangout. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, I’ve got your back with simple, friendly tips that’ll make your outdoor space the envy of the neighborhood.
—–
🌷Helping you create a vibrant, manageable 4-season landscape that is uniquely you.🌷

I’m Amy and I help home gardeners design design landscapes that are uniquely you.

3 Gardening Secrets Revealed (Free Training): https://go.prettypurpledoor.com/secretrevealyt
Free Plant Pairing Guide: https://prettypurpledoor.com/guides

Code: R2YR0QP4I9HGBAUR

In this video I want to show you a real life process for how I would assess privacy issues and function in a landscape so one of my students was nice enough to let me use the photo of her property while this isn’t really her project some of the issues that she was

Having are issues that I know a lot of you are having so we’re going to take that photo I’m not using any fancy software I’m just going to be on my iPad drawing over the photo in a program called procreate and I’m going to be talking you through all the different

Ways that I would think about privacy and how to address that privacy using design to solve those problems so I think this is going to be a really interesting and fun way to look at privacy and just get you thinking outside the box for all of this so let’s

Just jump right into the iPad and we’ll get into this project I always say start with the structure and the backbone of your garden or your yard or your property and try to think about it in the winter time when nothing is blooming and you kind of have these clear views

So this view here this picture here is taken from inside the home so this is what they’ll be looking at for the majority of the year so I think this is a really good view to use if you have an inside view from the home that you want

To try out snap a picture of it and you can follow along with what I’m about to do and then they took a picture also of this Upper Deck that’s here and they kind of showed where they’re having issues with some privacy and some ugly

Views so the first thing to do is really just to assess the property take a look at it make sure you know which direction your property is facing and then you want to start marking down anything that is ugly or bad that you want to hide or even potentially something that you want

To emphasize in this particular project there really isn’t anything that they like and they want to emphasize so I’m going to be focusing on marking the things that they really don’t like and that we need to address and as you come up with these things you’re going to be

Able to use design to fix these problem area is so the biggest one that I see obviously there’s um there’s a power line coming here and there there’s not much that we can do about that especially from this above view but this is a real eyesore in my opinion especially

From this upper deck and even from uh when they’re sitting on the deck they have to look at this garage and somebody’s car is here so just sort of Xing these things off like I want to block these things is where I would start with this particular property and

Then if you take a look at the seating area here you’ll see that they have neighbors and there’s two decks over here so that would be in this area here so we really have to come up with a solution over here to kind of hide these neighbors and make this a little bit

More private and make their space in general a little bit more private and then this area in the back here is kind of an eyesore right now so we either have to come up with a solution to this eyesore like designing that space or at the very least blocking this part off

From the property as well so that we’re not looking at all of that now we kind of have the outside edges it doesn’t look like there’s too many problems over here but we have to block a lot on the this side and potentially over here and

The next thing to look at is if you already have a position for a dining area or a lounge area or something like that can you take a picture from sitting in that area and just sort of assess so right now it seems like they have a

Dining area here if we plan to keep it in this particular area The Neighbors From Above here are also going to be able to see down into this so at that point we may need some kind of wall or screen or even a cover over top of this dining area so really

All I’m doing is I’m just sort of coming up with ways very general spots where we need to really focus on and if there was a beautiful Vista over here and we want it to keep it open I would probably just leave that open and make a

Note on here the other things that you want to think about when you’re going through this process are external things usually I call this a site inventory and inside of my plant perfect activity book I have an entire area that kind of covers how to go about

A site inventory but this book is awesome I put it together so that you can go through this entire process with me I highly recommend grabbing a copy of it and it’ll show you that entire site inventory process but some of the big things are the direction of the wind

Typically prevailing winds are east to west if you’re not sure if you don’t have that issue on your property that you can see but other things that you want to watch out for are something like road noise so maybe there’s road noise over here so we want to watch out for the Privacy

The road noise and the wind coming from any directions outside of your property so now that we have this area kind of settled and figured out what I want to do is kind of zoom in on this spot here because this is definitely a big issue

Again you have these this shed here that is or a garage here that’s very not nice to look at then you have uh the views from the Neighbors in this area so a lot of people will be like what can I do what can I plant to kind of stop this

And a lot of times we’re thinking about the actual property line and going as far over as possible in this situation you could actually solve the majority of these onlooking problems right on this patio here so what I would actually do let me just grab a different color here

What I would probably do in this situation is I would move this table kind of over this way and then I might do some kind of like a bench seating or a planter so if we did something that was right along this rail here excuse my messy drawing but this just

The reality of how it works you just got to get your ideas down you don’t have to be a professional artist to kind of figure these things out for yourself so if that’s a bench seating I would also do some kind of lattice that goes up so

Here off of the porch here and maybe bring this post up as well and then I’d kind of install some kind of structure here and in this structure maybe like I said maybe it’s a lattice and then we could plant a Vine or something up that lattice in

That case we may actually need to make this a planter area or kind of extend this out further so there’s space for these Vines to be installed and then uh seating in front of that so that’s sort of one thing that I would try another

Thing I might try is putting a roof over this something so we kind of have the sides here and we’d have a roof that goes across and then using a curtain maybe a curtains hanging or something like that to kind of hide these views make it really pretty and

Then you could put like containers in between to sort of soften things up a bit but you wouldn’t have to go outside of this actual porch area to address this ugly view here and this neighbor view here so I just wanted to point that out that it

Doesn’t necessarily have to be right on here and quite honestly especially for this side here where the neighbors are we we really don’t have any other option other than to do it up on this porch area because of these spots here so at least at the very least you would have

Some kind of screening right here to block The Neighbors and then for this garage out here another option would be in the yard to do a very large like a shade tree or something like that this would cover the majority of that as it grows so a very

Large structural tree to kind of block that view which is way in the corner of the property along the fence there or somewhere along here and then blocking there so those are a couple options for addressing the privacy issues and then if you come back to this one say we had

Road noise over here and we were wanting to put a patio or something in this area what I would do is really either use Shrubbery or use a water feature or use something to drown out that noise so you want to think about those things before you actually position different pieces

Into your property you want to think about okay well maybe I don’t want the patio over here because there is so much road noise coming from this direction maybe this is a better area for it and just sort of think about different ways that you could solve these problems

Before getting it started because if you do that you’re going to be in a lot better position for a beautiful design that is not only gorgeous and it’s your dream Garden but it’s also really functional because if you don’t get the function right from the beginning you’re just going to be constantly battling

These types of problems in your landscape foreign So there you have it those are the exact steps that I would take to assess a property for privacy issues and use design to solve those problems in the meantime I know you’re probably also wondering what to do next like what do you do to lay out the rest of the space

So in the next video which will be right here I’m going to show you exactly how I’d go through a client’s wish list and start to lay out the different areas of the property so I’ll see you over in that video