Framing The View

If you have good and bad views, beyond your land, then with clever positioning and careful plant cultivar selection you can successfully hide all the things that are not nice to look at and accentuate the view of the nice things. 

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Planting, just around the perimeters of your garden can restrict you considerably.  A plant or planting in the foreground can be smaller in height and width, yet hide just as much in the distance.  An example of this would be, a planting, no higher than six foot around one edge of a patio could be all you need to seclude your seating area.  Work out all the areas in the garden where you would want to sit and not be overlooked, along with all the key Windows such as kitchen etc.  You need to stand at the window and look out and decide your likes and dislikes, beyond your land, then plan carefully how you can accentuate these lovely views and hide the not so lovely ones.  The overall message I am trying to get across is, you don't necessarily have to plant something which is going to get large and difficult to manage to create the privacy where you need it and secondly if you plant a continual hedge then it could be, in time, hiding all the lovely views too, which seems a shame.  Colours are an important factor to consider also, it is important to get colour contrasts were possible, bear in mind that this could be the time to plant narrow plants in strategic places, to help create privacy without blocking the light.