Noise Buffers for Your Yard

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No matter how beautiful your yard or garden, if you can hear all the traffic noises, or the neighbors arguing, it detracts from the beauty. Here are some tips to keep some of the noise down to a liveable degree.

Gardens are all about nature and less about man-made noise, right? When Thoreau spent two years on Walden Pond, his nearest neighbor was a mile away. He could hear traffic on a distant road and a railroad track, but the sounds of it didn't interfere with his hearing geese flap their wings overhead or the ground crack during a freeze. That was then and this is now. Today the average garden is more apt to share air space with the sounds of steady traffic, neighbors' lawn mowers and string trimmers.

by Marie Hofer, Gardening editor, HGTV.com



Some of these ideas are good ones, but would take too much money to accomplish any amount of noise reduction. I will have to stick to the water feature and hope that the sound of the water masks some of the sounds of my neighborhood.

Noise Buffers for Your Yard