For various reasons, evergreen privacy hedges or attractive flowering shrubs cannot always be used as privacy screens in the garden. But there are also plenty of ways to visually enhance the standardized wooden privacy wall with a few simple tricks and transform it into an aesthetic garden component.
How can you beautify a privacy screen in the garden?
In order to visually enhance a privacy screen in the garden, climbing plants, vertical gardens or decorations with natural materials can be used. These options offer an aesthetic and individual design of the privacy screen.
Climbing plants as a visual enhancement for a privacy screen
In many cases, climbing plants can be a low-cost option for beautifying a privacy fence or wall. The following climbing plants sometimes even benefit from the favorable climatic conditions that prevail on the sun-facing side of a privacy wall:
- Kiwi
- Wisteria
- Trumpet Flower
- Grapevine
It also depends on the exact type of privacy wall or fence as to which climbing plant promises the best result. For example, a chain link fence that needs to be covered can sometimes suffer under the weight of aging wisteria. The privacy walls available from garden retailers should only be planted with climbing plants such as clematis or morning glories, as these do not easily cause damage to the wooden walls.
Design the privacy screen as a vertical garden
Why shouldn't you make optimal use of the often very limited space in a garden? For example, if every square meter in a terraced house garden is particularly valuable, then the privacy wall should ideally be used as a vertical garden. To do this, hangers for balcony boxes (€19.00 on Amazon) or plant pots are simply screwed to a stone wall or hung in the gaps of a privacy wall made of pallets using special metal hangers. However, to ensure that regular watering of this special type of garden is not just a Herculean task, an automatic irrigation system (for example for drip irrigation) should be installed right away when planting.
Make crafts with natural materials and beautify your privacy screen
Whether it is a privacy screen made of stone baskets, natural stones or pallets, all of these privacy screen variants can be easily visually enhanced with different natural materials and at the same time given an individual touch. For example, the following are conceivable:
- Necklaces made of threaded shells from the last beach vacation
- Decoration ideas from pine cones and dried flowers
- homemade ornaments and hay animals from hay and wire
- all-year-round “blooming” garlands made of artificial flowers
Tip
Just like the decoration in the house, the visual surface design of the privacy screen in the garden can also be adapted to the respective season. So while maritime decorative elements can create a beach feeling in summer, in winter the birds find their food in self-made feeding wreaths on the privacy screen.
