I think it depends on the room, I don't know at all about the ground floor at BLT.
we had a ground floor studio at BWV. it was facing the driveway. there was a huge field(actually, very well kept lawn) between us and the driveway and there was NO landscaping between it and us.. it we had the boys with us they would have played there. (but now they are 30 and 33 and were not with us!)
at BCV, when you walked into the villas door from the villas quiet ppol, there were rooms right next to the walkway that had no shrubbery.. I mentioned to hubby that I wouldn't want those rooms as anyone waling into the entrance was a foot away from someone sitting on the patio, not very private.
but anywhere ther IS shrubbery, I wouldn't walk through it.. #1 there are snakes in florida.
#2 as deb and bill said, it ruins the shruberry. at my first house, I was trying to grow a rose hedge in the front yard, between my house and my neighbor. the maillady kept walking through it. (they weren't full grown yet) I kept asking her, nicely, not to, as the "hedge" would not be a "hedge" if there was a big gap in it. (she actually made me go through the trouble of writing a formal letter to the post office requesting it.

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