The term “allotment garden” generally does not mean a leisure plot that is defined solely by the relatively small garden area, but rather a garden plot in an allotment colony, which is sometimes also referred to as an “allotment garden”. Since the neighborly relationship in such a complex presents certain challenges, erecting an alternative to the classic privacy wall requires some creativity.
How do I design a compliant privacy screen in my allotment garden?
To create a privacy screen in the allotment garden, rely on temporary solutions such as potted plants, extendable awnings, annual climbing plants and well-thought-out garden planning with raised beds and espaliered fruit to make the garden compliant and harmonious.
Allotment gardens are usually clubs and geared towards togetherness
Traditionally, most allotment gardens were created to give people in gardenless living conditions access to their own piece of land in nature and to manage it to grow fruit and vegetables. It used to be a basic principle of these allotment gardens that the various members supported each other in numerous activities and provided each other with advice and support across the garden fence. Now, however, a generational change is currently taking place and for many younger allotment gardeners, the focus is less on the longing for petty-bourgeois farming of their own "floe", but rather on a retreat to relax with friends and family in the countryside. In the limited space of an allotment garden, mutual consideration is still required according to most club statutes:
- the limitation of structural property fencing to a height of usually around 125 cm
- the ban on high privacy hedges
- avoiding unnecessary shadows on neighboring properties
Tricks and tricks for compliant privacy protection
Most statutes of allotment gardening associations do not allow any high privacy walls, hedges or hedge-like arrangements of shrubs. Nevertheless, there are certainly ways to discreetly gain a little more privacy. The allotment gardens in the complex are often only visited on certain days of the week or at weekends. If, for example, you want to visually deter the nosy neighbor from your own sun lounger in spring or summer, some potted plants can quickly be temporarily placed in position. Awnings that can be pulled out to the side (€74.00 at Amazon) are also a modern and practical way to visually shield the barbecue and seating area for the duration of use under the argument of “protection from gusts of wind”. Such temporary types of “isolation” are usually not even noticed by the well-read paragraph riders of an allotment garden association.
Provide some privacy with annual plants and thoughtful garden planning
Since, according to the relevant legal regulations, allotment gardens should still be used to grow fruit and vegetables on at least a third of their area, those responsible for local associations rarely have any objection to growth of this type. As a seasonal replacement for a permanent, living fence, appropriate climbing plants such as climbing beans can usually be used on a suitable trellis without any problems. Smartly placed raised beds also serve their purpose without ostentatiously provoking a feeling of deliberate isolation.
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With well-thought-out planning, the visual axes can also be designed in the allotment garden in such a way that there is a somewhat sheltered corner for a comfortable place to sit in the sun between the greenhouse, espaliered fruit and raised beds for growing vegetables.
