A compost heap for recycling clippings and organic waste is the pride of many gardeners. If the compost cannot be stored in a hidden corner of the garden, a suitable privacy screen can be the solution, as with unsightly garbage cans.

A privacy screen does not always have to be expensive

A compost heap should not be narrowed

In principle, many original ideas can be realized for a decorative privacy screen in the garden. However, you should not necessarily build a stone wall as a privacy screen right next to a composter. After all, there comes a time when every compost heap has to be dug up or at least a large amount of mature compost soil has to be removed. When the time comes, you'll be very happy for the freedom of movement around the compost. Consequently, the following types of privacy screens can be used as “hiding places” for the compost:

  • annual plants
  • flexibly relocatable privacy screen variants
  • narrow hedge plants

Narrow plants as a privacy screen next to the compost

Due to the given lines of sight in a garden, it is often sufficient to plant a natural privacy screen on one side of the composter. This is all the more true since a compost heap is usually placed in a corner of the garden. However, in order to maintain freedom of movement for processing the compost, a distance of at least half a meter should be maintained with the privacy screen. This can also be achieved in a small garden if very narrow-growing plants are used for the privacy hedge. For example, columnar yews or the columnar cypress Thuja Smaragd come into question. But you can also green a climbing aid with an evergreen climbing plant such as ivy.

Annual flowers and flexible privacy options

In order to maintain the necessary freedom of movement when working on the compost, annual flowers can be used as privacy screens, which can easily be replanted every year. Gladioli, sunflowers and climbing plants such as black-eyed Susanne, for example, reach the necessary height within a short time. Specially for the optical beautification of a composter, there are also privacy screens made of printed, weather-resistant plastic film in specialist shops. With a decorative print in the look of a stone wall, the weathered boards of a compost heap disappear behind the deceptively real illusion of the bricks.

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An unattractive composter can also be easily hidden by lining up potted plants in the appropriate places. These can be flexibly rearranged at any time if necessary, so that the compost heap is also easily accessible with a wheelbarrow.

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