Property owners who decide to replace their ficus hedges with native plantings this summer will get help from the town. At the direction of the Town Council, the Public Works Department is picking up ...

In L.A., where space can be tight, wealthy homeowners use walls of greenery as privacy fences and noise control LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — The homes of Hollywood’s rich and famous have long been ...

Imagine lounging in your backyard, zoning out in what's meant to be your very own isle of zen, only to have your peace interrupted by your friendly neighbor looking to strike up a conversation. Don't ...

With so much construction going on throughout South Florida and Palm Beach, new hedges are inevitably being planted everywhere. Ficus (Ficus benjamina) has been banned due to the whitefly infestation ...

LOS ANGELES – The homes of Hollywood’s rich and famous have long been enclosed by walls of sky-high ficus, designed to shield their wealthy occupants from paparazzi and peeping Toms. Robert Frost may ...

Palm Beach wouldn’t be quite the town it is without the tall, stately hedges that create privacy and, in some cases, folks say, better neighbors. But these landscape buffers aren’t always permanent.

When you want to define space in your landscape, but trees are too tall and bushes are not evergreen, the perfect solution is an evergreen hedge. In landscapes, hedges are most commonly used to define ...

Good fences make good neighbors, and so indeed do good hedges. But what makes a good hedge? While no plant is perfect, many types of plants can be grown and shaped into a properly dense and attractive ...

There was time when one of the hallmarks of Palm Beach was thick hedges of ficus benjamina towering above the sidewalks to provide privacy for the homes beyond them. But times are changing. This past ...

Jory Burton, an agent with Sotheby’s International Realty in Beverly Hills, has a celebrity client who won’t look at a property unless it meets one very specific qualification. “It has to pass the sex ...