Content
- The right planting for effective privacy in the garden
- Various types of visual protection planting
- Plants for an evergreen hedge
- Plant a screen hedge of shrubs
- Trees and climbing plants as a screen
- Tips
Hedge plants provide a beautiful, natural screen
The right planting for effective privacy in the garden
In order to have a certain minimum of privacy in your own garden, privacy screens made of wood or stone can provide the desired demarcation from the neighboring properties. But you can also ensure with appropriate planting that you feel unobserved within your garden property and thus can relax even better.
Various types of visual protection planting
Whether it is a large, park-like garden or a relatively small terraced garden, depending on the situation on site different types of plants with a special growth habit can be used as privacy screens. Probably the most common form of natural screens in the garden are screened hedges, which create a living barrier between your own garden property and adjacent land or roads. In order to be able to meet the own demands on the garden design and to be able to shield glances also from higher-lying balconies, in some cases also sight protection variants from flowering shrubs, high trees or climbing plants are available.
Plants for an evergreen hedge
Evergreen shrubs and hedgerows are particularly suitable for planting a plot boundary or as a terrace border, as they can serve all year round without restriction as a natural screen in the garden. Popular plant species for this purpose are:
Please note that even when planting evergreen hedges as privacy protection, certain statutory clearance regulations and height limits must be observed. In addition, hedges of yew trees or the columnary cypress Thuja emerald usually have a lower annual maintenance cost than vigorous Heckenzypressen or cherry laurel plants.
Plant a screen hedge of shrubs
If you are bored by the rather monotone green of an evergreen sight protection hedge, you can also plant a hedge of flowering shrubs. The effect of such a shrub hedge is particularly aesthetic, when the expansively awake shrubs are not planted in a strict line, but each offset slightly to the sides. In addition, you should consider in the planning of the respective flower color and flowering time of the plants. This will allow you to enjoy delicate floral scent later throughout the gardening season and to provide important food for bees and other insects.
Trees and climbing plants as a screen
In the neighborhood of multi-storey residential buildings, insights into the garden from above are just as problematic as from the sides. You can achieve a roof-like privacy by planting trees or by deliberately tinting with vigorous climbing plants. For planting trellises and arbors, for example, climbing plants such as hops, clematis, trumpet flowers and ivy can be used in addition to the classical grapevines.
Tips
Basically, many plant species are suitable for planting the property boundary, but always sufficient distances to the neighboring properties should be respected.