In a terraced house garden, without suitable privacy protection, a feeling of “togetherness” with the neighboring neighbors often automatically arises in everyday life. Sometimes it can also be helpful for the recreational value of the already small garden area if some well-considered measures are taken to create some boundaries.
How can I create a privacy screen in the terraced house garden?
To ensure privacy in a terraced house garden, you can arrange trees, climbing plants such as trumpet flowers or vines, raised beds along the property line or flowering shrubs on the garden fences to ensure privacy and attractively frame the garden area.
Challenges of privacy protection for a terraced house garden
A terraced house garden is usually not particularly wide and runs like a narrow ribbon, usually rectangular in shape. Since such a garden is usually not very wide, privacy protection measures such as stone walls that require approval can only be built to a limited extent or in consultation with the neighbors due to the required distances. Even tall privacy hedges do not solve the problem adequately, as they can easily be overlooked from the balconies of neighboring houses. Therefore, in a terraced house garden, it is important to approach the issue of privacy protection as creatively as possible and, due to the limited space, to integrate it into the garden design in as many ways as possible.
Trees and climbing plants protect from views from the neighboring balcony
In order to shield views from above as comprehensively as possible, privacy protection variants with a natural character have proven themselves. Since the garden is usually only actively used during the summer months, it is not a problem if this form of privacy protection tends to vegetate barely during the winter. In order to generate added value when using the garden, apple trees, for example, can be trained on half-trunks so that they form an almost umbrella-like canopy. You can also let climbing plants grow along stretched nets or wires (€7.00 on Amazon) so that they form an increasingly dense privacy and shade roof over the years. Examples of suitable climbing plants are:
- Trumpet Flower
- Wine
- Wild Wine
- Wisteria
- Ivy
Arrange raised beds cleverly
Raised beds are often used to grow fresh vegetables in your own garden. If these are cleverly placed along the property boundary, raised beds and the plants grown in them can form an elegant privacy screen for the seating area in the garden or the terrace.
Tip
An alternative to evergreen hedge plants can be to arrange flowering shrubs along the garden fences as a privacy screen. These not only frame the garden area, but also bloom and smell at different times of the year.