So that there is a certain minimum level of privacy in your own garden, privacy screens made of wood or stone can provide the desired demarcation from neighboring properties. However, you can also ensure that you feel unobserved within your garden property with appropriate planting and can therefore relax even more.

Hedge plants provide a beautiful, natural privacy screen

Various types of privacy planting

Whether it is a large, park-like garden or a relatively small terraced house garden, depending on the situation on site, different types of plants with special growth forms can be used as privacy screens. Probably the most common form of natural privacy protection in the garden are privacy hedges, which can be used to create a living barrier between your own garden property and adjacent properties or streets. In order to meet your own garden design requirements and to be able to shield views from higher balconies, in certain cases there are also options for privacy screens made of flowering shrubs, tall trees or climbing plants.

Plants for an evergreen hedge

Evergreen shrubs and hedges are particularly suitable for planting a property border or as a patio border, as they can serve as a natural privacy screen in the garden all year round without restriction. Popular types of plants for this purpose are:

  • Thuja species
  • yew trees
  • cherry laurel
  • boxwood
  • spruces

Note that even when planting evergreen hedges as privacy screens, certain legal distance regulations and height limits must be observed. In addition, hedges made of yew trees or the columnar cypress Thuja Smaragd usually require less annual maintenance than high-growth hedge cypresses or cherry laurel plants.

Plant a privacy hedge of shrubs

If the somewhat monotonous green of an evergreen privacy hedge is too boring for you, you can also plant a hedge from flowering shrubs. The effect of such a shrub hedge is particularly aesthetic if the sprawling shrubs are not planted in a strict line, but are offset slightly to the sides. You should also take into account the respective flower color and flowering time of the plants when planning. This allows you to enjoy the delicate scent of flowers later throughout the gardening season and provide important food for bees and other insects.

Trees and climbing plants as a privacy screen

In the vicinity of multi-storey residential buildings, views into the garden from above are sometimes just as problematic as from the sides. You can achieve a roof-like privacy screen by planting trees or by deliberately covering them with fast-growing climbing plants. In addition to the classic vines, climbing plants such as hops, clematis, trumpet flowers and ivy can be used to plant trellises and arbours.

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In principle, many types of plants are suitable for planting on the property boundary, but sufficient distances to neighboring properties should always be maintained.

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