If there is no garden or other recreational area in the countryside around your own apartment, the balcony belonging to the apartment takes on a deeper meaning as a place for fresh air in the sun, in addition to its function as a smoking area and location for a tumble dryer. However, this can only offer the promised recreational value, especially in the midst of urban development, if there is a certain privacy screen that ensures a minimum of privacy in a comfortable and aesthetic way.

The blooming clematis protects you from prying eyes

Protect your own balcony from prying eyes

As a rule, balcony plants do not grow particularly tall, but rather grow hanging, in order to cover the often unattractive balcony parapet with a veritable rain of flowers. In order to achieve a certain degree of privacy by extending the balcony parapet upwards, it is better to choose "standing" variants of geraniums, fuchsias and petunias for planting the balcony boxes (€109.00). In order for these to be able to show healthy growth, they must be watered every morning or evening on hot days. In addition, it cannot hurt to provide the plants with a suitable liquid fertilizer about every two weeks.

Plant flower boxes with tall plants

Various flowers such as gladioli and tulips can also be used as blooming privacy screens for the balcony. A pretty shrub or bed rose also offers perennial blooms, but they sometimes have to be protected from the winter cold on the balcony. In some cases, conifers and trees such as Thuja occidentalis and boxwood are also used for the evergreen privacy hedge on the balcony. If this is permitted at all according to the respective house rules, the trees should be cut back regularly. Oversized specimens offer the wind a lot of surface to attack in autumn gusts of wind and, in the worst case, can even loosen parts of the balcony railing from their anchorage.

Climbing plants on the balcony

In principle, a balcony can also be protected from the prying eyes of the neighbors with pretty flowering climbing plants. However, if it is the balcony of an apartment building with neighbors above and below your own balcony, rampant climbing plants such as wisteria or wild wine are not recommended. When greening nets and trellises, it is better to use an annual climbing plant that grows correspondingly quickly:

  • Clematis (Clematis)
  • Climbing nasturtium
  • Black-eyed Susanne
  • morning glory

Bamboo as a privacy screen on the balcony

Bamboo is also enjoying increasing popularity as a privacy screen on the balcony, as it (ideally) offers green leaves all year round and an attractive appearance. When choosing plants, be sure to pay attention to low-growing varieties and note that many varieties in the exposed position on a balcony are not necessarily hardy.

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Many bamboo species are only suitable as balcony plants to a very limited extent due to their growth characteristics and location requirements. Alternatively, sweet grasses such as zebra grass can be used instead of bamboo, but these also require relatively high planters for their pronounced roots.

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