Hiding a Telephone Box on a Sloped Yard

by Judith Wright
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Sloped yard

I live in an HOA. I only have about 20' in length of yard, and it has a 4' slope with a telephone box at property line. It's like right in my face. I have an enclosed porch to look out into the wetlands. HOA won't let me build a deck. The slope prevents a lot of planting it seems. What can I do to hide box?

ANSWER
If I understand your property/sloped yard, it slopes across the width, not the length. Your porch is at the rear of your house and your view there is towards the rear of your property where the box and the woods are. If I'm wrong, let me know.

One thing you could do is create a bed as an extension of the woods. It could curve out to in front of the telephone box and then swing back in. Whether you connect the bed to the woods or not, if you plant some medium to tall evergreen shrubs in front of the box, it will block it. How tall they have to be depends on how high your porch is.

It looks like you are pretty sunny in that area. There are a lot of varieties of Blue Holly that would work. China Girl is one of the lower ones, reaching about four or five feet high.

In front of the Hollies, you could plant some colorful perennials.

Your slope does not look that severe, so regarding the plants, I would ignore it.

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I hope this helped....Susan