Using plants for privacy is one of the oldest ways to create warmth and seclusion in a garden. No matter the year, flourishing boxwoods and towering trees have been a staple of stylish homes, and some properties truly take this vision to the next level. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's former Pacific Palisades compound is the perfect example.
Purchased by Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo for $32 million in late 2018, the property is a gem of 1930s architecture with unmatched amenities, including a subterranean guest house – but you would never know looking at it from the outside. The compound is expertly swathed in plants chosen for privacy. Towering deciduous landscape trees, boxwoods, shrub roses, and bougainvillea obscure everything beyond the fence.
