Content
- The right plants for effective privacy on the balcony
- Protect your own balcony from prying eyes
- Plant flower boxes with highly awake plants
- Climbing plants on the balcony
- Bamboo as privacy on the balcony
- Tips
The clematis protects with prying eyes
The right plants for effective privacy on the balcony
If no garden or other recreational area in the countryside is available in the vicinity of your own apartment, the balcony belonging to the apartment beyond the function as a smoking area and dryer location gets a deeper meaning as a fresh air place in the sun. This can only offer the promised recreational value, especially in the midst of urban development, if there is a certain privacy, which provides a cozy and aesthetic way for a minimum of privacy.
Protect your own balcony from prying eyes
As a rule, balcony plants are not particularly large in height, but grow rather hanging, in order to cover in this way the often not exactly aesthetic balcony railing with a true flowering rain. So in order to realize a certain privacy in the sense of extending the Balkonbrüstung upwards, better "standing" variants of geraniums, fuchsias and petunias should be selected for the planting of the balcony boxes. For healthy growth, they must be watered every morning or evening on hot days. In addition, it can do no harm to provide the plants with a suitable liquid fertilizer about every two weeks.
Plant flower boxes with highly awake plants
As a blooming screen for the balcony also various flowers such as gladioli and tulips come into consideration. Perennial flowers also offer a pretty shrub or bed rose, this must be protected on the balcony but sometimes from the winter cold. In part, conifers and trees such as Thuja occidentalis and the book for the evergreen sight protection hedge on the balcony are also used. If this is permitted under the respective house rules at all, the trees should be cut back regularly. Oversized specimens provide the wind in the autumn storm gusts much attack surface and can even solve parts of the balcony balustrade from its anchorage in the worst case.
Climbing plants on the balcony
Basically, a balcony can also be protected from prying eyes of the neighbors with pretty flowering climbing plants. But if it is the balcony of a multi-family house with neighbors above and below its own balcony, it is advisable not to mention sprawling climbing plants such as the wisteria or the wild wine. For the greening of nets and trellises better reach for a one-year-old and correspondingly quickly awake climber:
Bamboo as privacy on the balcony
Wacher's popularity as a visual protection plant on the balcony is also delighted by the bamboo, as this (ideally) offers year-round green leaves and an attractive appearance. When planting, be sure to look for low-growing varieties and be aware that many varieties in the exposed position on a balcony are not necessarily hardy.
Tips
Many bamboo species are only very suitable as balcony plants due to their growth characteristics and site requirements. Alternatively, grasses such as the zebra grass can be used instead of the bamboo, but they also need relatively tall planters for their pronounced roots.