While a privacy screen made of Plexiglas for balconies and terraces can definitely be the right choice, when it comes to edging a property, the choice is usually more towards natural privacy screens for legal and aesthetic reasons. So that the fastest and most effective privacy protection can be implemented, plants with sufficient height growth should be selected.

Hedge plants protect against prying eyes

Evergreen hedges made from proven hedge plants

There is a certain selection of hedge plants that are, so to speak, among the "classics" of privacy hedges:

  • the different subspecies of Thuja occidentalis
  • cherry laurel
  • book

Since the Buchs grows very slowly, it is usually only suitable for low hedges. The cherry laurel, on the other hand, is extremely keen on growing and may even be satisfied with shady locations. Among the different cultivars of Thuja occidentalis, the bushy Thuja occidentalis 'Brabant' and the tightly columnar Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' are among the most popular hedge varieties. Although not quite evergreen, they are still suitable as plant material for high hedges:

  • beech
  • liguster
  • barberry

Tall shrubs as a privacy screen

Many flowering shrubs cultivated in the garden can grow to heights of more than three meters under suitable site conditions. However, before planting a privacy hedge made of flowering shrubs, you should be aware that this type of living privacy screen cannot be raised and cut into shape quite as narrowly as a hedge made of cypress or beech trees. On the other hand, flowering hedges are less intimidating than a “green wall” of needles or leaves. They also represent ecological added value, as they offer many birds and insects places to nest and sometimes even food in the form of their fruits.

Plant a particularly high screen made of trees

If you really don't have to take any consideration of neighbors in legal or other respects when framing the property, trees can also be planted as privacy screens. However, trees with a distinct division into trunk and tree crown only make sense if they are supplemented by a hedge of shrubs in the lower area as they get older. Common red spruce (Picea abies), on the other hand, can first be cut like a hedge so that they form numerous branches in the lower area. With increasing age, the spruces can then reach heights of 20 meters and more with their tops, while they still retain their dense needles near the ground if there is sufficient incidence of light.

tips

If tall plants such as red spruce are planted around the garden property as a privacy screen, they not only provide good privacy screens, but also effective protection against annoying gusts of wind.

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