Content
- A high privacy can make a garden more beautiful
- Considerations before selecting suitable privacy options
- Plant a screen hedge of shrubs or trees
- Use climbing plants as a screen
- Tips
Even hedges can grow very high and thus give a natural high privacy
A high privacy can make a garden more beautiful
The most beautiful garden sometimes makes no great pleasure, if you have to feel gardening, sunbathing and relaxing constantly watched by neighbors or fence-dogs. It is not so complicated to provide a high privacy for the desired privacy within your own garden.
Considerations before selecting suitable privacy options
Basically, today there is a variety of options for effective privacy along the property boundary or at individual locations in the garden or along the terrace to choose from. It should be noted, however, that walls, fences and other architectural privacy options are usually not only costly, but also associated with a relatively complex installation. In addition, legal requirements for prescribed maximum heights and footprints may challenge creativity and, for example, necessitate the use of special baskets if necessary. Alternatively, live plants can serve as a natural screen. These in turn have the advantage that they do not affect the natural idyll in the garden and can be integrated depending on the particular plant selection and versatile in the garden design.
Plant a screen hedge of shrubs or trees
Before you plant a high screen hedge of shrubs or trees, you should inform yourself about the prescribed minimum distances to the property boundary and similar requirements. These provisions may be regulated quite differently in different federal states in German-speaking countries. In any case, you should allow for a distance of at least one meter or more as the distance between the middle of the hedge and the boundary of the property so that you can cut back the plants from your own property later on. If tall trees are planted as visual protection, the later dimensions of the resulting treetops should be included in the considerations in advance. Well-proven and at the same time well in form and under control to bring hedge plants are:
All of these plant species reach a height of at least three meters over the years, but can also be flexibly cut to the desired height and thus kept under control.
Use climbing plants as a screen
In many cases, bordering variants such as a fence and a living hedge are to be combined as a natural privacy screen, especially along a property boundary. Climbing plants such as ivy, wisteria or knotweed easily grow up on vine rods and lattices and thus ensure undisturbed privacy within the garden over the years.
Tips
Also a natural sight protection from plants is subject to the respective regulations, which often lead to neighborly conflicts. A clarifying conversation before the implementation of your own vision protection ideas can help to avoid misunderstandings and annoyance from the outset.