In the past, a garden was often set up as a representative advertisement for onlookers and neighbors, but today the green oasis of relaxation right next to your own home should primarily offer leisure opportunities and a natural space with a certain degree of privacy. With a carefully selected privacy screen, you can not only protect your garden from prying eyes, but also design the existing space in the desired style.

Planted fences provide an attractive privacy screen

Spatial subdivision and sight lines in the garden

Stone walls, hedges and trellises with climbing plants that act as privacy screens are not only suitable for optically separating a garden from neighboring properties and streets. With their color, surface structure, height and material composition, the variants selected in each case naturally also have an effect on the atmosphere perceived in the garden on the inside. Design elements with privacy protection can also be used within the garden area in order to separate garden areas with different characteristics (e.g. cottage garden vs. Asian garden) and to consciously set certain lines of sight and design axes.

Green hedges vs. flowering shrubs

It is not without reason that arborvitae species such as the Thuja occidentalis Smaragd, the evergreen cherry laurel or beech trees cut to shape are the measure of all things when planting privacy hedges: After all, arborvitae and cherry laurel are green all year round, while beech trees keep the dry leaves until they fall in spring offers a completely uninterrupted visual protection of the living fence. Most flowering shrubs already lose their leaves in autumn and are therefore no guarantee of visual differentiation in winter. But hedges made of flowering shrubs ensure enthusiasm with their colorful abundance of flowers. In addition, the composition of a blooming privacy screen of this type can be designed in such a way that from late winter to autumn a different plant species always blooms within the row and provides a lovely scent in the garden.

Modern privacy screen variants set refreshing aesthetic accents

With a modern, creative garden design, the possibilities for privacy around the terrace, seating areas and various garden areas go beyond the classic, green privacy in the form of a hedge, stone walls and the usual reed mats. The following privacy screen variants are current trends in creative garden design:

  • A homemade privacy screen made from used wooden pallets
  • fence nets overgrown with real ivy, which are easy to set up on site
  • Screen walls made of stone baskets

The right trees for privacy from above

If multi-storey residential buildings rise up right next to your garden or leisure property, or if you want to design a garden on a slope, then the topic of "privacy protection against views from above" can also become a relevant issue. A spherical trumpet tree or spherical maple provides some screening from overhead without blocking out too much sunlight like trees with a spreading crown.

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For a seat that is protected from view in the countryside with a cozy atmosphere, you can reinterpret a somewhat forgotten garden design classic: In a gazebo covered with grapevines, you can sit comfortably even in midsummer thanks to the shady greenery and enjoy the special charm of this alternative to the garden pavilion .

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Garden design