- Advantages of perennials compared to other types of privacy screens
- Plants with perennial growth suitable as privacy screens
- Combine privacy concerns with an attractive perennial bed
Even a relatively small garden offers the potential for restful relaxation in the fresh air in the countryside with the necessary privacy. Perennials as privacy screens can be an interesting alternative to stone walls and evergreen privacy hedges.
Lupins are a beautifully colourful, blooming privacy screen
Advantages of perennials compared to other types of privacy screens
The erection of stone walls or wooden privacy screens and the planting of tall trees around the property as privacy screens are not only associated with high costs, but often also raise questions about permits or neighborhood law. On the other hand, the acquisition costs for the young plants of various types of perennials are relatively low and they do not outgrow the hobby gardener as easily as various types of flowering shrubs. While a shrub, thuja or spruce hedge can grow to a width of two meters or more with increasing age, perennials can be cultivated as privacy screens on a relatively limited area with a width of around half a meter. Perennial plants with "perennial growth" are characterized by the fact that their above-ground plant mass usually dies in autumn and the plant then sprout from the rootstock or tubers completely again in spring. However, since most gardens are hardly used in winter anyway, no pronounced privacy screen is usually required during the winter months.
Plants with perennial growth suitable as privacy screens
While low perennials can serve as a privacy screen in the balcony box, the perennial varieties selected for natural privacy in the garden should be more likely to reach a height of 120 cm or more. However, many perennial varieties reach this height very quickly and significantly faster than annual climbing plants due to the root system that has already grown together at the site. The following perennials are particularly popular as seasonal privacy screens:
- lupins
- autumn asters
- cosmos
- feather poppy
Bulbous plants such as dahlias also grow as perennials, but in most cases they have to be dug up for the winter.
Combine privacy concerns with an attractive perennial bed
Perennial beds are an optimal way to make a garden area visually attractive with little maintenance effort through varied foliage colors and alternating flowering periods. It is common to use perennials of different heights in stages. So put the tallest perennials at the very back edge on the property line or the edge of the bed, in front of them the medium-high perennials and in front of them the low-growing perennials.
tips
Many types of perennials, such as the feather poppy, tend to multiply relatively quickly once they have gained a foothold in a suitable location. You should not only take this into account when planting along the garden border, but also when determining the planting distance in a perennial bed.