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: 140–200 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 12–18 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.