"It looked like I could have done it, which is exactly what I didn't want," content creator Maddie Perry tells PEOPLE of a professional landscaping ... said would be a privacy fence shrouded ...

and instead going with see-through choices like picket or chain-link fences or lattices. One way to weaponize your landscaping against trespassers is to place “defensive” plants around access ...

Walls and fences create privacy, but can be off-putting and expensive. ‘Living screens,’ methods of landscaping for privacy, ...