The most beautiful garden is sometimes not that much fun if you have to feel like you are constantly being watched by neighbors or onlookers while you are gardening, sunbathing and relaxing. It is not that complicated to ensure the desired privacy within your own garden with a high level of privacy protection.

Hedges can also grow very high and thus provide a natural high privacy screen

Considerations before selecting suitable privacy screen variants

Basically, today there is a large number of variants to choose from for effective privacy protection along the property line or at individual locations in the garden or along the terrace. However, it should be noted that walls, fences and other structural privacy screens are usually not only expensive, but also involve relatively complex assembly. In addition, legal requirements with regard to prescribed maximum heights and distances can challenge creativity and, for example, make it necessary to use special rock baskets if necessary. Alternatively, living plants can also serve as natural privacy screens. These, in turn, have the advantage that they do not impair the natural idyll in the garden and, depending on the selection of plants, can also be integrated into the garden design in a variety of ways.

Plant a privacy hedge of shrubs or trees

Before you plant a high privacy hedge made of shrubs or trees, you should find out about the prescribed minimum distances from the property line and similar requirements. These provisions can be regulated differently in different federal states in the German-speaking area. In any case, you should calculate a sufficient distance of at least one meter or more as the distance between the middle of the hedge and the property line, so that you can later cut the plants back from your own property. If tall trees are planted as privacy screens, the later dimensions of the resulting treetops should be included in the considerations in advance. Proven hedge plants that are easy to shape and control are:

  • beech
  • liguster
  • various species of Thuja occidentalis
  • cherry laurel
  • red spruce
  • Flowering shrubs such as forsythia and jasmine

All of the plant species mentioned reach a height of at least three meters over the years, but can also be flexibly cut off at the desired height and thus kept under control.

Use climbing plants as privacy screens

In many cases, border variants such as a fence and a living hedge should be combined as a natural privacy screen, especially along a property line. Climbing plants such as ivy, wisteria or knotweed grow easily up trellises and trellises and thus ensure undisturbed privacy within the garden over the years.

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A natural privacy screen made of plants is also subject to the respective regulations, which often lead to neighborly disputes. A clarifying conversation before implementing your own privacy screen ideas can help to avoid misunderstandings and trouble from the outset.

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Garden design