The wealthy Long Island, New York beach communities that make up the Hamptons often use fast growing shrubs and trees to protect their privacy from beach goers. This desire for privacy is ...

This bush can be grown in USDA Hardiness Zones 7 through 11, and it responds well to pruning, allowing you to carefully sculp a privacy hedge. The wax leaf Ligustrum is a fast-growing evergreen shrub ...

Planted in a sunny location and in well-drained soil, a laurel hedge will reward you with white blooms in spring. Fast-growing privet can get you privacy in a hurry; if given proper care ...

Higher temperatures may produce more wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live ...

Higher temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses.