Since residential buildings are usually not far apart these days, the desire for some privacy in the garden means that there is a need for a sufficiently high level of privacy protection. To avoid the constricting aesthetic of a stone wall or other massive privacy fence, hedge plants and other living privacy screens can offer a natural alternative with versatile added value.

Bamboo quickly forms dense hedges

Fast growing shrubs for a dense hedge

In order to obtain a relatively dense privacy screen as quickly as possible after planting, plant varieties that grow as quickly and vigorously as possible should be selected for a living fence. In this regard, the following hedge plants have proven themselves:

  • Thuja occidentalis 'Brabant'
  • various varieties of privet
  • young beeches
  • cherry laurel
  • young spruces

However, always note the two sides of the coin: Fast-growing hedge plants quickly achieve the declared goal of a dense privacy screen with a natural character. However, they also require a certain amount of care in order to keep the growing joy, which is constantly increasing, especially with age, in line with local conditions and the provisions of neighboring law. Last but not least, before planting, you should ask yourself whether you can cut back vigorously up to twice a year so that these hedge plants do not overgrow them.

Plant a dense screen of bamboo and other ornamental grasses

There are also alternatives to the classic hedges if you want to create a living privacy fence in the garden. Even some hardy bamboo varieties grow quickly and vigorously after a few years in one location. The maxim of thorough planning applies all the more to these: Unless it is a clump-forming bamboo variety without runners, precautions must be taken when planting in terms of a suitable rhizome barrier. In this way you can be sure that the bamboo really keeps prying eyes away along the property line and does not overgrow the entire garden within a few years. Ornamental grasses that sprout every year are also suitable more or less all year round as privacy screens, since the dry shoots are simply tied together over the winter and finally cut off in the following spring before the new ones sprout.

Allow climbing plants to grow up a trellis

A particularly space-saving variant of the living fence can be realized with fast-growing climbing plants. Knotweed, trumpet flower and Virginia creeper as climbing plants on the garden fence and next to the terrace have the advantage that they only require a small amount of space on a slender trellis and also provide plenty of food for insects and other garden dwellers with their flowers.

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A living fence sometimes not only provides a sound-absorbing effect on annoying street noise and improved protection against pollution, but it also offers many bird and insect species valuable nesting and feeding places.

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