Whether in a spacious cottage garden or in a terraced house garden with particularly limited space: privacy screens made from a wide variety of materials can now represent a practical and aesthetic alternative to the monotony and the maintenance effort of evergreen privacy hedges, which should not be underestimated.
What privacy screen ideas are there for the garden?
Privacy ideas for the garden can include flowering shrubs, climbing plants, creatively designed wooden fences or decorative stone walls. These not only provide privacy, but also protect against wind and improve the microclimate for heat-loving plants.
Provide privacy with shrubs or climbing plants
A hedge made of beech, privet or cherry laurel may seem more natural to some garden owners than a stone wall, but such hedges do not appear particularly creative and imaginative. So why shouldn't the privacy hedge also make an active contribution to a flowering, fragrant or even tempting garden with sweet fruits? Flowering shrubs can be arranged in a row so that their different flowering times ensure changing focus and color spectrums in the garden almost all year round. Children and adults can snack from a privacy hedge made of raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries or currants. Even among the climbing plants there are not only decorative floral wonders. Grapes and kiwis can be harvested directly from the privacy screen in suitable locations.
Make a wooden fence decorative
A simple wooden wall can quickly appear barren and uncharming as a privacy screen if it is not a particularly well-thought-out design idea in a modern garden. There are certainly options for combining wood as a material for privacy protection with high aesthetic requirements:
- with a privacy screen made of pallets
- with a decorative wall made of logs
- with braided elements made from branches and willow branches
- with a sophisticated design of the wooden walls
To create the illusion of an additional room in a relatively small garden, mirrors can be attached to the inside of a wooden wall, which have a window-look frame combined with old-fashioned shutters. A balcony box with geraniums placed under the pseudo window reinforces the impression of a real window.
Privacy walls with that certain something
Due to the uncomplicated construction, stone walls in the garden are now dominated by variants made from so-called gabions. These are stone baskets that are stacked on top of each other by a crane or filled with stones by hand on site. These can be covered with climbing plants or braided with artificial flower garlands. Stone walls made from natural stone or from the demolished material of old houses look particularly decorative when they are deliberately built up like the remaining remains of a castle ruin. However, when building stone walls, you should pay particular attention to local regulations and it is better to consult a specialist.
Tip
A privacy screen made of wooden walls or stones not only provides privacy in the garden, but can also keep cool gusts of wind from the terrace or swimming pool. In addition, on the south side of the privacy wall, the microclimate at the location in question is changed in such a way that this can have a positive effect on heat-loving plants such as palm trees, nectarine trees or citrus plants grown in pots.