In a row house garden, without a suitable privacy screen, there is often an automatic feeling of "togetherness" with the neighboring neighbors in everyday life. Sometimes, however, it can also be useful for the recreational value of the already small garden area if well-considered measures are used to provide some demarcation.

Naturally, privacy can be created with bamboo

Challenges in privacy protection for a terraced house garden

A terraced garden is usually not particularly wide and runs like a narrow ribbon, usually in a rectangular shape. Since such a garden is usually not very wide, visual protection measures such as stone walls that require approval can only be built to a limited extent or in consultation with the neighbors due to the prescribed distances. Even high privacy hedges do not solve the problem adequately, as they can easily be overlooked from the balconies of the neighboring houses. Therefore, in a terraced house garden, it is important to approach the topic of privacy protection as creatively as possible and, due to the limited area, to integrate it into the garden design in as many ways as possible.

Trees and climbing plants protect against views from the neighboring balcony

In order to shield views from above as comprehensively as possible, privacy screen variants with a natural character have proven their worth. Since the garden is usually only actively used during the summer months anyway, it is not a problem if this form of privacy screen is left to vegetate barely during the winter. In order to generate added value when using the garden, for example, apple trees with grafting on half trunks can be raised in such a way that they form an almost umbrella-like canopy. But you can also let climbing plants grow along stretched nets or wires in such a way that over the years they form an increasingly dense privacy and shade roof. Examples of suitable climbing plants are:

  • trumpet flower
  • Wine
  • Wild Wine
  • Wisteria
  • ivy

Cleverly arrange raised beds

Raised beds are often used to grow fresh vegetables in your own garden. If these are cleverly placed along the property line, raised beds, together with the plants grown in them, can form an elegantly solved privacy screen for the seating area in the garden or the terrace.

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An alternative to evergreen hedge plants can be to arrange flowering shrubs along the garden fences as a privacy screen. These not only frame the garden area, but also bloom and smell at different times of the year.

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Garden design