Content
- Modern balcony design with an attractive privacy screen
- Choose the right privacy screen for your own balcony
- Greening the balcony with a natural screen
- Climbing plants as privacy on the balcony
- Tips
Climbing plants protect against prying eyes and still leave light on the balcony
Modern balcony design with an attractive privacy screen
In an increasingly hectic period, the balcony of one's own home is increasingly rediscovered as a place of relaxation and regeneration. For the necessary privacy can be provided with a screen from plants or with a creatively designed screen made of weatherproof materials.
Choose the right privacy screen for your own balcony
First of all, if necessary, it should be agreed with the landlord or with the neighbors which parameters must be observed when installing a privacy screen on the balcony. As well as colorful and eye-catching materials and shapes, colorful plastic nets can be an easy-to-attach choice. The approximately 120 cm high and available in any length lengths of weather-resistant material are usually used when a balcony with glass balustrade or with lattice-like parapet design should be cladded opaque. An optical separation from the neighbors on the sides can be flexibly designed with a fan-shaped side awning. From natural materials such as willow branches or reed mats can be tinkered quickly and inexpensively a self-designed privacy screen for the balcony.
Greening the balcony with a natural screen
Many people on the balcony prefer a green screen of plants against a visual boundary with PVC mats and folding walls. After all, the liveliness of nature, together with birds and insects, even reaches its own window, especially in the case of a blossoming privacy screen. While plants such as gladioli or the climbing nasturtium are suitable for a balcony used predominantly in the summer as a visual screen, columnar waking hedge plants such as the rocket juniper or the extremely slender Thuja occidentalis Malonyana also provide protection against prying eyes in winter. But with these plants, you also have to think about the pruning in good time, before the fast-growing cypresses literally grow over your head.
Climbing plants as privacy on the balcony
The following climbing plants handle the sometimes relatively extreme temperature and humidity conditions on a balcony well, but must also be cut back relatively regularly due to their rapidity in advanced age:
Note that the thickening shoots of many climbing plants can sometimes pose a significant threat to the building fabric of the house and balcony.
Tips
Keep in mind that many climbing plants used as protection screens are heavy-grained and therefore require not only regular fertilization but also sufficiently large planters with a humus-rich substrate. With the corresponding gravity of the planters goes on the balcony also associated with the fact that they must be effectively secured against possible crashes with additional exposure to gusts of wind.