The fastest privacy hedge is one that arrives already grown. Boxed trees — 36-inch and 48-inch — stand 10 to 15 feet at install, which means the screening you want exists the same day the crew packs up.
How it works
Trees are hand-tagged at wholesale growers, trucked in, and set with mini-skid or crane assistance. The line is trenched and amended, each tree set plumb at 4–5 foot centers, staked, tied into drip if added, and every scrap hauled off. Even at estate scale, most lines are planted in one day.
What it costs
Roughly $610–$740 per foot in 36-inch boxes and $1,150–$1,290 in 48-inch, species depending — real numbers in the pricing guide, exact numbers from your drawn line. Deposits stay capped at $1,000 by California law regardless of project size.
When it's worth it
New-neighbor construction overlooking your pool. A sale or event on a deadline. Or simply refusing to spend three summers waiting. Privacy has a time value; boxed trees are how you buy it.
Put it to work
Draw your hedge line on a satellite view of your property and get one fixed installation price in about two minutes.
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