There are a variety of creative options for privacy protection for balconies and terraces, which can be used to ensure a little privacy in a visually appealing way. Various types of plants can serve the same purpose in the garden, providing a natural visual demarcation from neighboring properties and streets.

Thuja is a popular hedge plant

Different ways to create privacy with a natural privacy screen

The possibilities for planting green privacy screens are almost unlimited: after all, all plants that grow so densely, either in their natural growth form or through a targeted shape cut, that they can form a visual barrier between different garden areas or properties are suitable. However, some plants are more advantageous than others in this respect, because they have leaves or needles all year round, are fast-growing or are particularly easy to care for. So first ask yourself how high the desired privacy screen in the garden should be, whether it absolutely has to be opaque all year round and how much space a hedge can and can take up in width. This definitely makes it easier to clarify the question of whether a privacy screen made of proven hedges, a privacy screen made of climbing plants or a privacy screen made of other fast-growing plants should be considered.

Plant an evergreen hedge

Classic hedges are usually used, especially when fencing the garden plot. The following types of wood have proven themselves:

  • Thuja occidentalis (in its various subspecies)
  • cypresses
  • liguster
  • beech
  • yew
  • cherry laurel
  • Spruce

Although the leaves of beech trees turn brown in autumn, they usually only slowly fall off until spring. Of course, evergreen plant species such as spruce, thuja species or yew trees are opaque all year round. The privet grows relatively quickly as a hedge plant and tends to branch out densely if cut regularly. However, it loses its leaves in autumn and is then not as opaque during the winter as, for example, a yew hedge.

The privacy screen made of climbing plants

A privacy screen made of climbing plants can be advantageous in cases where the privacy screen itself should reach the greatest possible heights, but only take up a small area in width. With an appropriate trellis, ivy, trumpet flower and wisteria can reach impressive proportions over the years. Climbing plants such as hops can also be decorative, but their above-ground shoots die off in autumn and have to grow out of the rootstock every year.

Flowering shrubs as a privacy screen

If wall-like hedges made of evergreen trees are too boring for you, hedges and group plantings of colorful flowering shrubs can serve as an alternative. Although these have to be cut as often as a beech or privet hedge, they ensure a variety of colors and sometimes a beguiling scent in the garden. Suitable plant species The following plant species with shrub-like growth are particularly suitable for this:

  • forsythia
  • jasmine
  • weigela
  • snowball
  • lilac
  • ranunculus
  • summer pier

tips

Strong-growing bamboo species are often recommended as the ultimate privacy screen for the property line. However, you should not forget to insert a rhizome barrier into the soil for the runner-forming species. Otherwise, after a few years, there could be problematic disputes with troubled neighbors if your bamboo stretches out its foothills under the garden fence.

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