Even a small garden or balcony can be a true refuge for relaxation if the necessary privacy is ensured by suitable privacy screens. There are definitely good reasons to choose tall, magnificently blooming flowers when selecting plants.
Which flowers are suitable for a privacy screen?
A blooming flower screen provides privacy and benefits the environment through nectar and pollen for insects. Popular flowers for privacy include sunflowers, dahlias, canna, tumbleweed, delphinium, coneflower, peony and torch lily.
Benefits of a flower privacy screen
A privacy screen made of flowers can offer several advantages at the same time:
- the fragrant scent of the flowers
- Nectar and pollen for bees and other insects important for the environment
- colorful flowers as a visual accent in the garden and on the balcony
- delicate alternative to walls and hedges
- seasonally limited to the main period of use of the garden
While high walls and hedges can quickly make a garden appear shady, uncomfortable and cramped in winter, a seasonal privacy screen made of flowers offers an attractive demarcation from the street or neighboring properties during the peak period of use of terraces and lawns between spring and autumn. In addition, many ideas for a blooming, green privacy screen can be implemented relatively quickly, easily and inexpensively.
Differences between annual and perennial flowering plants
If you would like to try out the look of a flowering privacy screen in a relatively inexpensive way, then you can use annual privacy plants such as the black-eyed Susan or the climbing nasturtium. These thrive with little care even under adverse conditions. A privacy screen made from tall sunflowers or gladiolus planted in a row also only lasts one year. However, there are also perennials such as the autumn aster, tall-growing lupine species and the blue poppy that are well suited for a blooming privacy screen made up of flowers in the garden. Flowering climbing plants such as clematis are ideal for flowering privacy screens on the balcony due to their exposed location to the wind.
Particularly popular privacy plants with lush flowers
The following particularly magnificently flowering plant species are often used as flowering hedges in the garden:
- Sunflowers
- Dahlias
- Canna
- Steppe candle
- larkspur
- Coneflower
- Peony
- torch lily
Tip
Climbing plants can, over time, provide an effective privacy screen for the balcony or garden when attached to an appropriate trellis or net. Of course, such a privacy screen must also be attached in a sufficiently stable manner. In addition, flowering climbing plants such as honeysuckle, knotweed and wisteria are heavy feeders that require sufficiently large planters and regular fertilization.
