All Gardens Great & Sma by York Co, Horticultural Agei Tom Becker PRIVACY IN THE LANDSCAPE Is it possible to grow privacy? Gardeners can plant or con struct fencerows, landscape beds, barriers and fences to cre ate complete or partial privacy for their backyard. Fencerows create a “near natural” barrier but only offer partial privacy. For complete privacy, privacy fencing provides screening look ing in and out of the backyard. Fences offer the added benefit of restricting access to the yard through gates, doors, etc. Complete privacy restricts all views in and out of the property. Essentially, a person outside a private yard cannot see any thing inside. Gardeners and new homeowners may initially want complete privacy when design ing their landscape. But, over time, partial screening may be all that’s really needed. In addition, walls, trees and shrubs can obstruct views in or out of a property. Unfortunately, complete barriers also obstruct air movement, decreasing the overall comfort when using the landscape in the summer. Fortunately, most residential properties have one or more good views from their home while learning to live with one or more points of visual intru sion. A visual intrusion might be neighbor’s window looking onto your patio or even a pleasant view like a park or golf course. Agriculture - Residential - Commercial Invest In Concrete, Quail CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES CONTACT AND SEE HOW AFFORDABLE ROY SENSENIG CONCRETE WALLS CAN BE 717-355-0726 Authorized Dealer For Ke' CONCRETE It ITi E <Q) E walls, me. These points of visual intrusion may be minor annoyances or may become headaches as your use of your backyard increases in the summertime. Fortunately, points of intrusion rarely fill the entire circumference of the back yard. Often, obscuring an intrusion point into your property may mean excluding more pleasant views looking out a window of your home. With this in mind, an alternate solution in estab lishing partial privacy using landscape beds with trees and shrubs. A trellis surrounding a porch' or deck offers partial privacy. Use the trellis to hide a neigh bor’s window or door or even ser vice areas with trash cans or a cluttered yard. Rather than placing the trellis around the entire perimeter, open portions allow you to enjoy the best views on your property. This allows you to design special landscape features on property to be enjoyed all year round. Some features in a landscape always need screened out. A heavily traveled roadway is never desirable to keep in view from a patio while a sidewalk may or may not be worth keep ing in your line of sight. The same rationale can be applied to neighboring windows on adja cent properties. If such windows are extensively used by neigh bors they probably should be iroved Manure Storage Facilit 1 SCS Ai 531 Hollander Rd., New Holland, PA 17557 Walls And $ Construction Needs J Work That Will Last # Lifetime stone Concrete Products screened. If a window, however, is in a guest room or similar low use area of the house, it need not be screened. One technique is to orient the interest of the space away from the intrusion source. For exam ple, if a neighboring window is on one side of a patio, the design scheme might be oriented so users sit facing a more striking view in the opposite direction. Therefore, the individual is not constantly facing the perceived or real intrusion of a neighbor ing window. The degree of privacy desired varies from person to person. Each situation is unique. Landscape architects and designers work daily sorting out a property for good or bad fea tures. When plants are suggest ed for a privacy barrier, plan for any future growth potential of the plants that are used. If a gardener is willing to wait several years, it is possible to grow a privacy fence. Sometimes referred to as a windbreak, these living fences consist of rows of evergreen trees. They protect exposed homes from severe wind, road noise or road fumes. Evergreens for outside rows might include Colorado blue spruce, douglas fir, white spruce or white fir. Tall evergreens for inside rows include hemlock, white pine, red pine, Austrian pine, or Norway spruce. For immediate privacy, fenc ing, trellises, walls, etc. can be blended into an existing land scape with the help of shrubs. They include forsythia, honey suckle, viburnums and others. Information for the article above can be addressed to Tom Becker, Penn State Cooperative Extension at (717) 840-7408. For All J Your Concrete \ Jan Seiss Is Frederick County Dairy Princess KAREN BUTLER Maryland Correspondent WOODSBORO, Md. - The newest Frederick County dairy princess likes dairy cows so much that she has a job away from home milking them. Jen Seiss, the 18 year-old daughter of Glenn and Nancy Seiss, Rocky Ridge, lives on a beef farm, but milks cows each day at a neigh boring dairy farm. Jen was crowned as the Frederick County dairy princess here by outgoing dairy princess Emily O’Hara at the 37th Frederick County dairy princess corona tion, held at the fire hall. Two other contestants were named as alternate dairy princesses. Mary Ropp, the 17 year-old daughter of Ralph and Rebecca Ropp of Middletown, was a runner-up in the contest and will serve as an alternate dairy princess. Crystal Smith, the 16 year-old daughter of Wayne and Cathy Smith of Jefferson, was also a runner-up, and will serve as an alternate. Both girls will help to promote milk and the dairy industry throughout the upcoming year. Jen Seiss said she plans on using her title to help people understand how important milk and dairy products are. In response to a fishbowl question about what she would say if she were invited to speak to elemen tary school students, she said, “I’d probably take samples of milk, 1%, 2%, whole, and choco late milk, because lots of kids like chocolate milk. I’d show them where milk comes from, show them the importance of milk, and where we would be if we didn’t have it.” Jen lives on a beef farm in Rocky Ridge, but her interest in dairy has led to a part-time job on a nearby dairy farm, Janessa Holsteins, where she milks 175 registered Holsteins. She also owns five cows herself. She plans to continue milking, fol lowing her graduation from Catoctin High School this June. At school Jen has been an active FFA member since 1994. She has served as junior trea surer and treasurer, and partici pated in numerous contests. She Cowtown Rodeo 1 Cowtown , NJ. "Cow Capital of the First Frontier" Delaware Memorial Bridge in Salem County MAY 23 THRU SEPTEMBER Every Saturday Night ★ ★ 7:30 Rain or Shine Admission $lO Adults ★ ★ $5 Children 12 and under Free Parking ★ ★ ★Refreshment Stands Group Rates Available: Call 609-769-3200 Lancaster Fuming, Saturday, Juna 13, 1998-B9 is also a member of the Iron Cougars powerlifting team. She is very excited about her reign as dairy princess, and is looking forward to the opportu nities it will give her to work with young people. “I want to try to educate young people more about milk and what products come from milk,” said the enthu siastic princess. The evening event also intro duced seven young ladies who will be very busy promoting milk and may themselves one day become dairy princesses— the 1998 dairy maids. Serving as dairy maids for Frederick County during the upcoming year will be Sherry Albaugh, daughter of Theodore and Kathy Albaugh; Sadah Bentz, daugh ter of Thomas and JoAnn Bentz; Kelly Burner, daughter of Kenneth and Robin Burner; Janell Guyton, daughter of Wilmer and Joann Guyton; Andrea Hood, daughter of Denis and Nancy Hood; Laura Sigler, daughter of Robert and Daphne Sigler; and Jessica Valentine, daughter of Mike and Denise Valentine.
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