Content
- Consciously use perennials for privacy
- Advantages of perennials over other privacy options
- Screening suitable plants with perennial growth
- Aiming to combine privacy protection with an attractive perennial bed
- Tips
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Consciously use perennials for privacy
Even a relatively small garden with the necessary privacy offers the potential for restful relaxation in the fresh air in the countryside. Here, perennials can be an interesting alternative to stone walls and evergreen Sichtschutzhecken as privacy.
Advantages of perennials over other privacy options
The construction of stone walls or privacy walls made of wood and the planting of land enclosures of tall trees as a visual screen are not only associated with high costs, but often also raise questions of licensing law or neighborhood law. By contrast, the initial cost of the young plants of various types of perennials are relatively low and grow this not the hobby gardener so easily "over the head" as various varieties of flowering shrubs. While a shrub, thuja or spruce hedge can take a width of two meters or more with increasing age, perennials can be cultivated as privacy screens on a relatively limited area with a width of about half a meter. Perennial plants with "perennial growth" are characterized in particular by the fact that their aboveground plant mass usually dies in the autumn and then expels the plant from the rhizome or the tubers completely in the spring. However, since most gardens are rarely used in winter anyway, during the winter months usually no pronounced privacy is needed.
Screening suitable plants with perennial growth
While low perennials can serve as privacy screens in the balcony box, the varieties of perennials selected for the natural privacy in the garden should reach a stature of 120 cm or more. However, this height is reached by many varieties of perennials due to the root system already grown on the site very quickly and significantly faster than annual climbing plants. Especially popular as a seasonal screen are the following perennials:
Although bulbous plants such as dahlias grow perennial, in most cases they must be dug up for winter storage.
Aiming to combine privacy protection with an attractive perennial bed
Perennial flowerbeds are an optimal way to make a garden area with visually attractive by varied leaf colorations and alternating flowering times with little care. It is customary to use different types of shrubs graded. So place the tallest perennials on the far edge of the property border or the bed, in front of it then the medium-high Staufen and in turn the low-growing perennials.
Tips
Many types of perennials, such as the poppy, tend to proliferate once they have gained a foothold in a suitable location. This fact should not only be observed when planting along the garden border, but also when determining the planting distance in a perennial plant bed.