A garden on a hillside usually offers a wonderful panoramic view of the surrounding area. However, it requires thoughtful planning in order to be able to shield other people's eyes on your own use of the garden as effectively as possible with a privacy screen that is tailored to the specific situation of this type of garden.
How do I design a privacy screen on a slope?
To create a privacy screen on a slope, you can use tall bushes or trees, privacy walls, trellises with climbing plants or creative alternatives such as pallets. Pay attention to minimum distances and legal height restrictions.
Ensure privacy with a high level of privacy protection
In order not to be constantly exposed to the gaze of neighbors and onlookers despite the slope of your own garden, you can provide effective privacy protection around your own property with tall bushes or trees. However, you not only have to take into account the width of these plants at the base, but also the legally regulated minimum distances from the property line and the applicable maximum heights. Even if no one is initially bothered by the height of your planned privacy hedge, the shadow cast on neighboring agricultural areas can later become a point of contention.
Separate individual garden areas as partial areas protected from view
With properties on a slope, it is often difficult or even impossible to effectively prevent all views of your own property. Therefore, the motto for privacy protection on slopes is that individual areas are specifically protected from prying eyes with a privacy wall or another type of privacy protection. A natural swimming pond or a swimming pool, like terraces or seating areas, are among the areas where a little privacy can mean a significant increase in the quality of life in the garden. Basically, different types of privacy protection can be used for this purpose:
- green privacy screen made from hedge plants
- flowering privacy screen made of bushes or climbing plants
- Trellis or stretched nets (€7.00 at Amazon) with fast-growing climbing plants
- Privacy walls made of different types of stone
- Placement walls made of stone baskets that can be erected and removed at short notice
- creative privacy walls made of pallets
Different approaches for different aesthetic preferences
As long as the subsurface has been tested for stability and slip resistance for heavy types of privacy protection such as walls made of stone baskets, privacy walls running across the slope on one level usually do not pose a problem. But things are different if a privacy screen with a regular or irregular gradient is to be built. To avoid large gaps and the subsequent need for major excavation work, privacy walls should be lined up as narrowly as possible. It is usually less complicated if a green privacy screen is used, as the usual types of cypress and cherry laurel can easily be cut off at an angle on the upper edge of the hedge on slopes.
Tip
Protect individual garden areas specifically from view from outside with a well-positioned privacy screen. It can help if swimming pools or sitting areas in the countryside are set up in the middle of the property right from the start, so that there is still enough space for the desired privacy protection.