In the midst of an attractive landscape, it can certainly reduce the beauty of a garden and its recreational value if high stone walls, privacy fences and opaque, monochrome hedges are used to enclose it. Depending on the desired privacy screen height and the available space, flowering shrubs, perennials and even annual flowers can also be planted for decorative blooms at the property boundary or on the balcony.

Jasmine smells great and forms dense hedges

Annual flowers and climbing plants as privacy screens

The simplest and usually also the most cost-effective option for an attractive, blooming privacy screen are annual flowers that are easily sown on the spot or planted out as young plants. When designing balconies, annual flowering plants such as zinnias, helichrysum and cornflowers are often used, since yearly variety in the visual design is desirable. With the appropriate climbing aids, climbing plants such as the climbing nasturtium or the black-eyed Susan often easily reach heights of up to 2 m by midsummer, so that they can also be used as a natural privacy screen in the garden.

Bulb flowers and perennials

With an average height of 80 to 120 cm, the gladiolus, which is very easy to care for, can not only provide the desired privacy with decorative added value on a balcony, but also as attractive planting for stone and wooden troughs around the terrace or in front of the ones to be hidden garbage cans serve. Perennial perennials also require relatively little care if they are planted according to the needs of their respective location. Popular perennials for use as flowering privacy screens include:

  • feather poppy
  • autumn aster
  • coneflower
  • hollyhock

A flowering hedge of colorful shrubs

Flowering hedges made of different types of shrubs enable permanent privacy protection with only slightly limited opacity in winter. However, before planting, you should consider that this type of hedge cannot be cut quite as narrowly as a beech or privet hedge. In return, privacy hedges made of colorful flowering shrubs not only offer ecological advantages in the form of nesting sites for birds and useful insects, but also optical diversity and variety. With a skilful selection and arrangement of forsythia, ranunculus, weigela, deutzia, jasmine and various types of lilac, the result is a flowering hedge that produces new flowers in bright colors every year for months.

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Flowering hedges made of shrubs quickly form a very high and attractive privacy screen if there is sufficient space along the property line. However, you should keep in mind that these strong-growing plants also need to be cut back up to twice a year.

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