Although there are various types of privacy screens available for purchase these days, many garden owners and balcony gardeners still prefer to use a natural version. If you would also like to creatively process cut material from the garden, there are different privacy screen options made from branches to choose from.
How can I build a privacy screen myself from branches?
To make your own privacy screen from branches, you need freshly cut, elastic branches. Insert thicker branches evenly spaced into the soil and weave thinner, more flexible branches alternately through the trellis.
Weave your own fence elements from branches
With an easy-to-make privacy screen made of branches, you can protect parts of your garden oasis from prying eyes in a natural way and create a special atmosphere in the enclosed garden area. As material for this, you can use different types of branches that are obtained when pruning trees and bushes. However, in terms of the required elasticity, these should be as freshly cut as possible and generally not much thicker than a finger. Insert straight branches with a larger cross-section into the soil at a distance of five to ten centimeters. To do this, first stretch a string along the planned line, like when planting a privacy hedge, to make it easier to stay in the straight line. Then take the thinner branches and weave them alternately through the trellis of the branches arranged vertically in a row. To avoid leaving any empty spaces in the braid, you should always pay attention to different transitions between the individual branches on top of each other.
Branches as a trellis for climbing plants
Branches stuck into the ground as a fence are also suitable as a trellis for fast-growing, attractively flowering climbing plants. The long, unbranched branches of the hazelnut, which grow back strongly after every pruning, are particularly suitable for this. The following climbing plants, for example, which grow upwards within a few weeks after sowing, ensure a particularly decorative look for a privacy fence in a farm or vegetable garden:
- Black-Eyed Susan
- Morning glories
- Trailing nasturtium
The flowers of the nasturtium can even be harvested with the salad and used as an edible flower decoration in your own kitchen.
Let the willow branches root and use them as a green privacy screen
Late winter is the ideal time to cut willow branches for a green privacy screen. These can not only be used to plant the already widespread children's teepee in the garden, but they can also be used to create attractive fences with a small width and a correspondingly economical use of space in the existing garden area. In any location that is not too dry, willows will take root reliably and sprout again very quickly. The cuttings, which are between 50 and 200 cm long, should be inserted at least 15 cm deep into the soil, which is particularly easy after heavy rainfall.
Tip
For automatic height limitation and an aesthetic look, the upper shoot tips of the willow cuttings can be woven into a kind of handrail. To do this, branches are inserted into the ground at an angle into the vertically rising branches with an aesthetic regularity and interwoven with the neighboring cuttings at the desired height.
