Flax Hill and Highland Avenue don’t leave much margin. Homes sit close enough that you can practically hear the neighbors through the siding, yards barely give you room to breathe, and throwing up a standard wood fence between those lots looks completely off next to stonework that’s been sitting there since before anyone living there was born. A planted privacy screen fits these neighborhoods far better than any panel fence does. We run tight rows of Green Giant Arborvitae or Leyland Cypress, and when the spacing is dialed in correctly, you’ve got a dense green wall within a season or two rather than a sparse line of sticks that barely interrupts a sightline.

Getting that spacing right is what separates a functional screen from a wasted planting. Crowd the trees, and both root zones compete until growth stalls across the whole row. Spread them too far apart, and the homeowner is still waiting for full coverage three years later. We walk the entire planting line and mark positions before anything gets dug. That walkthrough also surfaces what’s already buried or standing nearby, utility runs, the original driveway pour, and the fieldstone walls that cut across so many older residential lots throughout Norwalk. Drop a Red Maple or a flowering Dogwood without accounting for those, and the root system eventually gets under that stonework, lifts it, and leaves a repair bill nobody wanted.