Nope, but then again, this isn't Oslo, we don't bother about hedges or trees or whatever.. we had this really huge old tree that put a lot of shadow on our neighbour's house.. he got mad at times

But we removed it, and now our garden is.. well.. not beautiful yet, but looks better.
We also had some thorn bushes that would hurt A LOT if you ran into them (I never did on purpose - only if my soccer ball flew in there. God I got mad when that happened!) But at those times, I would get the big scizzor and cut my way through. As you can guess, it didn't look really attractive with the thorn bushes looking like this:
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