The classic privacy screens such as stone walls, privacy hedges and wooden walls do not optimally meet every garden use concept or requirement. If there is a desire for a mobile and flexibly adjustable privacy screen, so to speak, then potted plants should be considered as a mobile privacy screen.

Large potted plants can make a great hedge

The classic privacy screen for the terrace

On many terraces, potted plants not only provide Mediterranean flair and green accents, but instead of a rigid stone wall as a terrace border, they also ensure privacy on the terrace, which is so important for relaxation. The following plants in pots are particularly popular with patio owners as a symbol of a Mediterranean holiday feeling:

  • Lemon and orange trees
  • Palm trees
  • banana trees
  • olive trees
  • fig trees
  • Kiwis with trellis

Please note, however, that most potted plants are grown in pots for good reason and need a protected and usually bright winter quarters for the winter.

Bamboo and hedge plants in pots

Many garden owners want bamboo in their garden, but shy away from planting it in the garden soil, even when creating a Japanese garden. The fear that the bamboo, once planted, could spread uncontrollably in the future as a stubborn test of patience is too great. This problem, which cannot be dismissed out of hand, is elegantly circumvented if suitable bamboo varieties are simply cultivated in sufficiently large planters. So you don't have to do without the attractive privacy plant and the bamboo always remains under control. Typical hedge plants such as cypress, beech or cherry laurel can also be grown in sufficiently large pots as a living privacy fence if the local conditions (such as a floor sealed with stone slabs) make it necessary.

Annual plants as a mobile privacy screen in the bucket

Not only Mediterranean citrus plants in pots can be used as a flexibly settable privacy screen in the garden, many annual plants also cut a fine figure in pots and planters. Sunflowers, for example, placed in a row can result in a creative and quite funny picture. Simple bamboo sticks in a small flowerpot are enough to give the climbing nasturtium room to develop. Gladioli usually also thrive in a planter and can be used, for example, to raise a privacy wall seasonally or to ensure an abundance of flowers on the terrace.

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Potted plants that can be moved around can also provide good service as privacy screens where such a thing is generally undesirable or even forbidden by definition in the club regulations: In allotment gardens, partitioning off is sometimes not welcomed at all, plants in pots remain in such a case as a discreet alternative for a minimum of privacy.

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