Privacy is a maths problem wearing a gardening hat: how many metres, how tall, how soon, how much. Here's the honest budget ladder we walk customers through every day, and every price below is live on the linked products, not last year's catalogue.
The patient budget: tubestock
Tubes are the secret of everyone who's ever screened a long boundary affordably, Sweet Viburnum and Lilly Pilly Resilience tubes cost about as much as a sandwich each. The trade-off is two to three years of patience. Tubes also establish superbly because their roots grow with the site from day one.
The sweet spot: 140 to 200 mm packs
This is where cost-per-screened-metre optimises for most people. Our 140 mm ten-packs and 200 mm six-packs of the major hedgers, viburnum, lilly pilly, photinia, murraya: land knee-to-waist-high plants that knit into a real screen in 12 to 18 months.
Visible from day one: 300 mm
Around waist-to-chest height on planting day, and the size most landscapers specify when clients want to see where the money went. All the majors come in 300 mm; this is also where Pittosporum Silver Sheen shines.
Instant: 45 L and advanced
Head-height on day one. Backyard Bliss and Slender Weavers bamboo in 45 L close a sight-line the week they're planted. You pay for the grower's years, but for a courtyard overlooked by a neighbour's deck, it's often the only answer that matters. Browse advanced sizes.
Run your own numbers
The hedge calculator prices every size option for your exact metres side by side, it's the fastest way to see the budget ladder for your own fence line. Mixed plan? Build it in the garden pricer. And whole-boundary orders are where trade pricing starts making sense for landscapers.