Like so many other useful things in everyday life, garbage cans serve their purpose, but do not necessarily set the most beautiful accents in your own front yard. However, with clever positioning and the selection of a privacy screen variant that suits the individual circumstances on site, this circumstance can be taken into account pragmatically.

A wooden garbage can shelter elegantly hides garbage cans

The choice between garbage can house and free installation

What is the usual standard for many large blocks of flats is also appreciated by many a family home owner: in a special garbage can house, garbage cans are not only protected from the sun, storms and vandalism, but are also virtually invisible when they are not on the day they are emptied must be placed next to the road. However, not only the effort associated with the construction speaks against this variant, but also the fact that these little houses are not necessarily seen by everyone as more aesthetic than the garbage cans themselves. In addition, the waste bins are less easily accessible with this very complex privacy screen variant than with free installation.

Stone walls and wooden walls as a privacy screen for garbage cans

Stone walls and wooden walls can be a very durable variant for the visual demarcation between the garbage cans and the rest of the garden or front yard area. For practical reasons, the positioning is usually designed in such a way that the garbage cans are accessible from a parking lot or the driveway. However, the optical separation by stone walls or pallet walls ensures that the garbage cans are not directly visible from the front garden or the terrace. In this way, peace and relaxation in the garden idyll are not disturbed by annoying thoughts of mundane necessities such as waste disposal.

Green and blooming as a dustbin privacy screen

Ideally, garbage cans can be taken into account when planning the garden in such a way that they are easily covered from the respective visual axes with a living privacy screen. It does not always have to be the classic privacy hedge made of cypress, yew or hedge beech. Of course, the cherry laurel, for example, with its evergreen foliage, offers a year-round dense privacy screen and at the same time a very aesthetic look. Garbage cans can just as easily be separated (at least between spring and autumn) with flowering shrubs from the garden area used for outdoor recreation. The pleasant side effect: many low-maintenance shrubs exude an intense scent during the flowering period, which can effectively mask bad smells from the garbage cans.

Hide rubbish bins with climbing plants even in the tightest of spaces

The relatively cramped space conditions of a small front yard often rule out privacy options such as sprawling shrubs and wide hedges. In such a case, for example, the following climbing plants can be planted for a trellis or climbing aid:

  • ivy
  • Wisteria
  • trumpet flower
  • Clematis (clematis)
  • morning glory
  • Wild Wine

tips

If hedge plants or shrubs are to serve as a privacy screen for the parking space for the garbage cans, a sufficiently large distance for later growth in width should be taken into account when planting.

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Garden design