Private housing developments are disparaged on several accounts: geographically scattered, landscape trivialization, rupture of social links, and the rise in individualism. Considering the placement of hedgerows as an essential element of these types of housing development, this paper offers a critical approach to the situation. Interviews were carried among middle-class people living in private housing developments built between 1990 and 2000 at Marne-la-Vallée and Rennes Métropole (France). The process of building hedgerows appears to be extraordinarily constrained. It is the result of urban policies and commercial practices but also shows the relationship of the people living in the developments and the nature around them. Tall and occlusive hedges that protect homes from the view of others are being planted on a mass scale today.