Although there are many different types of privacy screens available for purchase these days, many garden owners and balcony gardeners still prefer to use a natural variant. If you also want to creatively process cuttings from the garden, then there are different types of privacy screens made of branches to choose from.

It is quite easy to build a privacy screen from branches

Braid fence elements from branches yourself

With an easy-to-make privacy screen made of branches, you can protect parts of your garden oasis from prying eyes in a natural way and create a special atmosphere in the enclosed garden area. You can use different types of branches that occur when pruning trees and shrubs as material for this. In terms of the required elasticity, however, these should be as freshly cut as possible and generally not much thicker than a finger. Insert straight branches with a larger cross-section into the soil five to ten centimeters apart. To do this, first stretch a cord along the planned line, as when planting a privacy hedge, to make it easier to stay in the straight line. Then take the thinner branches and weave them alternately through the trellis of branches arranged vertically in a row. In order not to get any gaps in the braid, you should always pay attention to different transitions between the individual branches on top of each other.

Branches as a trellis for climbing plants

Branches stuck into the ground as a fence are also suitable as a trellis for fast-growing, attractively flowering climbing plants. The long, unbranched branches of the hazelnut, which grows back strongly after each pruning, are particularly suitable for this. The following climbing plants, for example, which grow up within a few weeks after sowing, provide a particularly decorative look for a tendril-covered privacy fence in the cottage garden or vegetable garden:

  • Black-eyed Susanne
  • morning glory
  • Climbing nasturtium

The flowers of the nasturtium can even be harvested together with the salad and used as an edible flower decoration in your own kitchen.

Allow willow rods to root and use as a green privacy screen

Late winter is the ideal time to trim willow branches for a green privacy screen. With these, not only the already widespread children's tipi can be planted in the garden, but also attractive fences with a small width and a correspondingly economical use of space in the existing garden area can be realized. In any location that is not too dry, willows root reliably and very quickly sprout again. The cuttings, which are between 50 and 200 cm long, should be planted at least 15 cm deep in the ground, which is particularly easy to do after heavy rainfall.

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For automatic height limitation and an aesthetic look, the upper shoot tips of the willow cuttings can be woven into a kind of handrail. For this purpose, branches stuck diagonally into the ground are woven into the vertically rising branches with aesthetic regularity and interwoven with the respective neighboring cuttings at the desired height.

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