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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.