Content
- Natural privacy in outdoor areas - variants, advantages and disadvantages
- A screen hedge as an alternative to the wall
- The care required for a natural screen in the garden
- Even make a natural screen from natural materials
- Naturally integrate sight protection hedges into the garden design
- Tips
With natural stone and plants, curious glances can of course be avoided
Natural privacy in outdoor areas - variants, advantages and disadvantages
In the garden terrace and balcony design, many hobby gardeners and fresh air enthusiasts today are spoiled for choice: creatively processed materials offer quite alternatives to the natural visual protection of plants or natural materials, nevertheless, the latter are not so rare in the lead and can with practical and aesthetic benefits shine.
A screen hedge as an alternative to the wall
By tricky products such as special stone baskets, it is no longer a matter of official approval today, whether you may build a wall around your own garden or not. Of course, a wall provides a degree of security and durability, primarily with its stability. In addition, for example, natural stone walls with their very special flora and fauna can be a very decorative and ecologically valuable design element in a garden. Often, however, walls are also very frightening or even constricting if they stand at a certain height on level terrain and effectively prevent any gaze and breath of air.A screen hedge made of plants such as beech, thuja subspecies or the evergreen cherry laurel, on the other hand, offers a similar level of privacy, but is still somewhat more permeable to light, air and various types of microorganisms. Many species of birds and insects require dense hedges as a breeding ground and habitat, so they also fulfill a very important function in the garden.
The care required for a natural screen in the garden
Of course, the care required for natural privacy in the garden depends not only on its dimensions in terms of length, but also on the height and width of the trees and shrubs planted in a row. The following plants, which are particularly popular in the planting of sight protection hedges, show such high growth rates that pruning can be required up to two or three times a year:
Conversely, this vigor also means a relatively high need for nutrients in the form of fertilizer and compost and a good cut compatibility, since errors in the cut usually grow very quickly as if by itself again.
Even make a natural screen from natural materials
Not every natural privacy screen must be a live privacy screen. With a little patience and dexterity, screens and mats can also be made from natural materials such as reeds, hazel branches and other materials. In particular, the fence-like screens variants of branches and other pieces of wood can be used as a rank aid for a thriving screen.
Naturally integrate sight protection hedges into the garden design
In a well thought-out garden, sight hedges are not only a means to an end at the boundary of the property, but as a flowering shrub wall or as a green grid of climbing plants such as the blue worm and the trumpet flower, they can even be quite significant accents in the visual composition of various plant species. Ideally, pay attention to a predominantly stepped construction of the individual garden areas, where lower perennials in front of the higher sight protection hedge at best also represent a color contrast.
Tips
Even a natural screen must be attached to an exposed point with regularly occurring, strong gusts of wind just like an artificial screen and sufficiently secured.