A privacy screen can make sense not only on the outer edge of the property, but also next to the terrace or between different garden areas. Stone walls or privacy hedges do not always have to be considered for this, a privacy screen that is just as practical as it is visually appealing can also be made from a wide variety of materials.

A self-woven fence looks chic and is inexpensive

Make a privacy screen out of wood

There are various ways to make an attractive privacy screen out of wood. For example, logs that are actually used for the cozy fireplace can be stacked and fixed with appropriate side supports to form a rustic privacy screen. Such a screen made of logs does not require any maintenance for years and can also serve as a nesting place and shelter for useful garden insects. You can also achieve a particularly interesting look if you insert thinly sawn tree slices vertically into a suitable holder made of wooden slats or reinforced steel mesh. Using thin wooden slats or straight branches, you can use a few nails to make a trellis in no time at all, which you can then use climbing plants to climb over.

Weaving privacy screens and fences out of wood

A classic from the category of natural privacy screens are willow rods, which are freshly cut and inserted about 20 to 30 cm deep into the ground and usually take root very quickly. This living privacy screen does not require much maintenance and can be woven together using an artistic braiding technique. But you can also just as well braid or layer a privacy screen out of dead twigs and branches. To do this, simply insert a few stakes into the ground at a suitable distance along the desired privacy protection axis, between which you weave the still flexible cuttings from your trees. The straight rods of the following plant species are particularly suitable for this:

  • hazelnut
  • maple
  • pasture

Using the same technique, privacy screens can also be woven that are not anchored to the ground but, for example, are placed in a plant trough, which can also be moved later.

Spice up the garden with recycled materials in bright colors

With different packaging, which usually ends up in the household waste, very creative and quite aesthetic privacy screen variants can be tinkered with in the garden. If different colored glass bottles are carefully drilled through at the bottom and threaded onto anchored iron rods, this results in an attractive privacy screen with interesting light effects from the incident sunlight.

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Some garden owners only realize after the installation that the long-awaited gabions as a stone wall in the garden can look very bare. These can be planted with climbing plants such as ivy in the long term. In the short term, however, plastic plant garlands with flowers can also be woven into the lattice of the stone baskets to improve the visual appearance.

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