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Garden Ninja shares his tips for designing privacy in an overlooked back garden. Privacy is essential in any residential garden, but achieving it can be difficult. Whilst it would be lovely to move your house to an open field, the practicalities often mean you have to work with rather than against neighbours. It’s about achieving the ‘feeling’ of privacy rather than the ‘absolute’ privacy of 8ft high walls.

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A better method is to use planting and structures to block or restrict certain viewpoints. It’s about breaking the line of sight rather than blocking it out completely. In this garden we have used standard trees, suited to the soil type and slight shade to help diffuse the views from neighbouring gardens. They also give a real structure to the small space drawing your eyes inwards rather than outwards over the low fences.

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All explained by Garden Ninja, Manchesters Garden Designer and blogger Lee Burkhill. He’s an RHS winning garden designer and expert panellist on BBC Radio Manchester’s Saturday morning garden phone in.

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36 Comments

  4. Stuart Galpin

    Really nice and tasteful redesign, and the way you talked through it was brilliant. I'm just about to make a career change and watching things like this is so valuable. Keep up the good work!

  6. Keiry DePaolis

    Just subscribed! Have a small garden too and want to incorporate trees for privacy but I've been having a hard time finding trees small enough. What are the names of the trees you used here?

  9. MrJands1982

    Great vid! Just curious though, how did this cost from start to finish? Its about the same size as my garden

  10. Agnes Hackett

    Absolutely brilliant video, has given me great ideas for a shady part of my garden , and I love the idea of combining different textures , shades of green shrubs : thank you 💕

  13. looking for discovery

    another great episode .. My back garden is literally exactly to this scale. It gets sun for 6 hours a day, but awful London clay conditions .. I dug the entire garden up by hand and have spent a year bedding down much better soil / compost …. Finally got rid of x2 – 30 foot conifers which have been taking all the water from the garden with their 20 metre roots all the way to the house 🙁 …….. 2nd year gardener and all I do is watch YouTube every night for ideas, tips and a reet good education. Thank you Ninja

  16. Denise Sykes

    Wow the garden looks so much bigger and very nice. Please do a Mediterranean garden design. Love your videos.

  23. Shams Jaffer

    Hi, I like ur design for small garden my query is my backyard is on a slope and I’m planning to do a kitchen garden please help

  24. Busara Firestone

    I am a pro garden designer, and I find that I can't get enough tips on small gardens. Thanks much, Lee, keep em coming!

  25. Margaret Rutherford

    The shed was loads better turned round so it's side looked like the fence. A really good idea to deal with a footpath through the centre by making a round lawn to take it in. I bet the owners love it!

  27. josephine Brevig

    Repetition in a small space helps with creating a cohesive look. Much more pleasing to the eye in my opinion. I also appreciate that everyone has their own taste. You did a fantastic job. Love it.

  28. Viv doolan

    Really lovely…finally a proper garden design fed up of seeing slab and astroturf labelled 'garden design '. I would have painted the shed dark to knock it back and have some climbers up the side of the shed and the dodgy fence panels.

  29. Carolina O P

    I love your designs. Thank you for sharing and for the tips you provide.

    One thing that I particularly like is when you put pictures of the plant when is mature, on the side of the screen, when you talk about a plant, at the same time that you are showing us the actual plant. That way, we don't have to imagine too much what it will look like. As when they are put down, they don't always look as they will in the future.

    Have you thought of having a video to show us what plants work well with what others? In terms of sun, soil, scent, colour and pattern?

    Also, I struggle with the all year round interest. I would like colour all year round…

    Thanks again

  33. Amanda Kohli

    Hi can you help with a query please . I have found this on my hydrangea it’s a soft while mildew looking powder ? Can’t attach a photo ?? Amanda

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