For a natural-looking landscape on the balcony, around the terrace and in the garden, there are now numerous types of privacy mats and awnings made from various plastic fabrics in different shades of green to choose from. A privacy hedge or a flowering balcony border made of living plants offer even more naturalness.
How do I create a green privacy screen in the garden and on the balcony?
Green privacy protection can be achieved using natural materials such as fence panels, side awnings, privacy panels or artificial ivy vines. Alternatively, hedges, flowering shrubs, climbing plants, balcony flowers or planters with trellises offer a lively and natural privacy screen in the garden or on the balcony.
Artificial privacy screen with a natural look
Many privacy screen variants in specialist retailers, with their eye-catching colors from lemon yellow to sunset orange, obviously want to spread a Mediterranean flair and a cheeky, colorful holiday feeling next to the deck chair on the balcony or around the seating area on the terrace. For a more subtle yet natural look, there are also weather-resistant materials in a variety of green tones:
- Fence screens made of fine mesh fabric (also commonly used on tennis courts)
- Privacy fences made of narrow PVC strips
- Side awnings as flexible privacy and wind protection
- Privacy panels in fir look
- Privacy nets with artificial ivy vines and leaves
Different types of hedges for the property border
There are basically different options available for the outer border of a garden plot. In rural outdoor areas where no neighbors are bothered by the height of the plants, trees can serve as privacy screens. Standard plants for easy-to-maintain privacy hedges are the various subspecies of arborvitae (Thuja plant genus), hedge beech, privet or the evergreen cherry laurel. If you want to temporarily add eye-catching splashes of color to the green of the privacy hedge, you should plant flowering shrubs as privacy screens. With an appropriate climbing aid, climbing plants such as the decoratively flowering wisteria can make it difficult to see your property from the side.
Screen the balcony from prying eyes
Many people use their own balcony as a place to relax during the summer months when there is not enough time to visit the swimming pool or relax at the lake. In order not to be stared at by neighbors and onlookers, a privacy screen can be added to existing balcony cladding to ensure the desired privacy. If there is limited space on a balcony, a natural or lively variant should be preferred over a privacy screen made of PVC for aesthetic reasons. Many attractively blooming flowers are at just the right height to shield prying eyes above the balcony boxes like a palisade and yet not block the view of the surrounding landscape like a wall.
Complement the pool and terrace with a decorative privacy and wind protection
In densely built-up residential areas, you can quickly feel like you're on display when you take a summer swim in your own pool and then sunbathe on the terrace. Plant pots with integrated trellises do in the garden what a room divider such as a screen does indoors: you can position your privacy screen as required and plant it with attractive climbing plants such as climbing roses or morning glories. As a pleasant side effect, these flexibly movable plant pots not only protect you from prying eyes after a swim in the swimming pool, but also from cool wind.
Tip
A green privacy screen for the natural garden can also be made relatively easily. Thin, straight branches of hazelnut bushes and willows are connected to each other like palisades (with wire or a cement base) and are then overgrown by climbing plants such as the climbing nasturtium.