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- Tall plants as attractive privacy
- Evergreen hedges from proven hedge plants
- High shrubs as privacy
- To plant a particularly high view protection from trees
- Tips
Hedge plants protect against prying eyes
Tall plants as attractive privacy
While a privacy screen made of Plexiglas for balcony and terrace may well be the right choice, the choice of the border of a property for legal and aesthetic reasons is usually more likely to natural screening options. In order to achieve the fastest possible and effective visual protection, plants with sufficient height growth should be selected for this purpose.
Evergreen hedges from proven hedge plants
There is a certain selection of hedge plants that are sort of "classics" of the sight hedges:
As the book grows very slowly, it is usually only suitable for low hedges. The cherry laurel, on the other hand, is extremely vigorous and may well be satisfied with shady locations. Among the different cultivars of the Thuja occidentalis, the bushy willow thuja occidentalis 'Brabant' and the taut Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' are among the most popular hedge varieties. Although not quite so evergreen, but still suitable as a plant material for high hedges:
High shrubs as privacy
Many flowering shrubs cultivated in the garden reach stature heights of more than three meters under suitable site conditions. However, before planting a screen hedge of flowering shrubs, you should be aware that this type of live privacy screen is not quite as narrow and cut as a hedge of cypress or beech. But blooming hedges are less intimidating than a "green wall" of needles or leaves. In addition, they also provide ecological added value, as they offer many birds and insects Nistmöglichkeiten and sometimes even food in the form of their fruits.
To plant a particularly high view protection from trees
If there is no need to take account of neighbors in legal and other respects, trees can also be planted as privacy screens. In this case, however, trees with pronounced division into trunk and treetop only make sense if they are supplemented by a hedge of shrubs in the lower area of advanced age. On the other hand, common red spruces (Picea abies) can first be cut like a hedge so that they form numerous branches at the bottom. With increasing age, the spruce trees can reach heights of 20 meters or more with their tops, while still keeping their dense needling close to the ground when exposed to sufficient light.
Tips
If tall plants such as red spruces are planted around the garden plot as a visual screen, they not only provide good privacy, but also effective protection against annoying gusts of wind.