While some gardens, with all their splendor of flowers and sophisticated garden architecture and landscape planning, are almost geared towards aesthetically inspiring onlookers or enhancing the house itself in terms of its optical radiance, other house and garden owners long for seclusion and tranquility. In many cases, a living screen can do things that a screen made of stones, pallets or other dead materials cannot.

Hedges and climbing plants are a natural, attractive privacy screen

Possible variants for a living privacy screen in the garden

In some suburban settlements, evergreen hedges made of plants such as Thuja occidentalis 'Brabant', cherry laurel or uncomplicated conifers such as spruce "rule" at the property boundaries. Other plants can also be considered for a natural privacy screen, which are also aesthetically attractive and offer many animal species nesting and feeding opportunities:

  • Hedges made of flowering shrubs for privacy protection
  • Privacy screen made of various climbing plants
  • Flowering perennials as a privacy screen
  • Annual flowers as a fast growing and blooming privacy screen

In any case, living privacy hedges can positively influence the microclimate in the garden by casting shadows and at the same time provide valuable habitats for endangered insect and bird species.

Make the terrace even more comfortable with a living privacy screen

A place to celebrate, relax and enjoy on your own terrace is not necessarily perfect with the right outdoor lounge furniture. The atmosphere becomes really cozy on long summer evenings on the terrace if it is a clearly defined place in the garden area where you are not permanently surrounded by absolute darkness. In addition, a suitable privacy screen on the terrace not only creates a more comfortable atmosphere, but also effectively keeps cool gusts of wind at bay. Last but not least, the privacy screen variants chosen for a terrace can also be part of the overall design in the garden. For example, plant troughs with trellis and ivy can be used as standard to protect the terrace from the eyes of the neighbors, but can also be easily placed next to the swimming pool as a windbreak in the spring and autumn season.

Small but fine: a living privacy screen on the balcony

For many people, their own balcony is not only the living room extended out into the open air, but also the only space for gardening experiments and fields of activity. Accordingly, many apartment owners get creative when it comes to “developing” their own balcony boxes (€109.00) and plant pots. Due to the relevant regulations, only small flowers and sometimes climbing plants are usually permitted and desired for cultivation on a balcony. However, numerous interesting privacy protection ideas for the balcony can also be realized with compact plant species.

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While stone walls change optically only very slightly in the course of the season, plants can go through stages that are absolutely rich in contrast, from bare branches to fresh green needles. In many cases, a living privacy screen makes it easier to experience the constant change and the eternal cycle of nature in the garden than a privacy screen made of wood or other materials.

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