Content
- Make your own creative screen
- Make a wooden privacy screen
- Braiding screens and fences made of wood weave
- Spice up the garden with recycled materials in bright colors
- Tips
A self-braided fence looks chic and is cheap
Make your own creative screen
Not only at the outer edge of the property, but also next to the terrace or between different garden areas, a privacy screen can certainly make sense. Not always stone walls or sight hedges must be considered, a useful as well as visually appealing privacy can also tinker from a variety of materials.
Make a wooden privacy screen
There are various ways to make an attractive screen made of wood. For example, logs that are actually used for the cozy log fire can be piled up and fixed with corresponding side supports to create a rustic privacy screen. Such a screen of wood logs benögit for years no care and can also be useful garden insects as a nesting site and shelter. You can also achieve a particularly interesting appearance by vertically inserting thinly sawn tree grates into a suitable holder made of wooden slats or steel mesh grids. From thin wooden slats or straight branches, you can tinker with a few nails in no time a trellis that can then be covered with climbing plants.
Braiding screens and fences made of wood weave
A classic from the category of natural screens are willow rods, which are freshly cut about 20 to 30 cm deep into the ground and usually rooted very quickly. This living screen does not need much care and can be interwoven in artful braiding technique. But you can also just as well braid or layer a screen of dead branches and branches. To do this, simply insert a few retaining pegs into the ground along the desired visual protection axis at a suitable distance, between which they interweave the still flexible cutting material of your trees. Particularly suitable for this purpose are the straight rods of the following plant species:
According to the same technique, it is also possible to brace screen walls which are not anchored in the ground but are put into a plant trough, for example, which can later be moved.
Spice up the garden with recycled materials in bright colors
With various packaging, which usually end up in the household waste, very creative and quite aesthetic blinds can be made in the garden. If differently colored glass bottles are carefully pierced on the bottom side and threaded onto anchored iron bars, the result is an attractive privacy screen variant with interesting lighting effects due to the incident sunlight.
Tips
Some garden owners realize only after the installation that the long-awaited gabions can act as a stone wall in the garden but very naked. These can be greened in the long term with climbing plants such as ivy. In the short term, flower-occupied plant garlands made of plastic can also be woven into the lattice of the stone baskets for visual enhancement.