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don’t like them, I just don’t want to see or hear them. What can I plant to make it all go away? And quickly.”
Sadly, the answer is that there are no quick, perfect planting solutions for bad views and only precious little that can be done for noise.
Plants are notoriously overrated as sound dampeners. Sound waves move through the thickest hedges with the greatest of ease, even leaping tall trees with the alacrity of Superman.
Residents living a mile away from an interstate can hear the airbrakes of trucks and the whirring din of tires on pavement even though hundreds of trees and shrubs may be between their homes and the highway.
The same holds true for suburban neighbors — no line of shrubs will be a hedge against unwanted noise.
If solid-material walls or earthen berms are ruled out, I
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