Like many other useful things in everyday life, garbage cans serve their purpose, but they don't necessarily add the most beautiful visual accents to your front yard. However, with clever positioning and the selection of a privacy protection variant that suits the individual conditions on site, this circumstance can be taken into account pragmatically.
What privacy protection options are there for garbage cans?
Privacy protection for garbage cans can be achieved using garbage can houses, stone walls, wooden walls, hedge plants, shrubs or climbing plants such as ivy, wisteria, trumpet flower, clematis, morning glories and wild vine. The choice depends on aesthetic preferences, space and accessibility.
The choice between a garbage can house and free installation
What is common practice in many large apartment blocks is also appreciated by many owners of single-family homes: in a special garbage can house, garbage cans are not only protected from sun, storms and vandalism, but are also virtually invisible when they are not must be placed next to the road on the day of emptying. However, it is not only the effort involved in building them that speaks against this option, but also the fact that not everyone sees these houses as necessarily more aesthetic than the garbage cans themselves. In addition, the garbage containers are less easily accessible with this very complex privacy protection variant than with a free installation.
Stone walls and wooden walls as privacy screens for garbage cans
Stone walls and wooden walls can be a very durable option for the visual demarcation between the garbage cans and the rest of the garden or front garden area. For practical reasons, the positioning is usually designed so that the garbage cans are accessible from a parking lot or the driveway. However, the visual separation through stone walls or pallet walls ensures that the garbage cans are not directly visible even from the front garden or terrace. This means that the peace and relaxation opportunities in the garden idyll are not disturbed by annoying thoughts about mundane necessities such as garbage disposal.
Green and flowering as garbage can privacy screen
Garbage bins can ideally be taken into account when planning the garden in such a way that they are easily covered from the respective visual axes with a living privacy screen. This doesn't necessarily always have to be the classic privacy hedge made of cypress, yew or hedge beech. Of course, the cherry laurel, for example, with its evergreen foliage, offers a dense privacy protection all year round and at the same time has a very aesthetic look. Garbage cans can also be separated (at least between spring and autumn) with flowering shrubs from the garden area used for outdoor recreation. The pleasant side effect: Many easy-care shrubs exude an intense scent during the flowering period, which can effectively mask unpleasant smells from the garbage cans.
Hide garbage cans even in the tightest spaces with climbing plants
The relatively limited space in a small front garden often precludes privacy options such as sprawling shrubs and wide hedges. In such a case, for example, the following climbing plants can be used to support a trellis (€17.00 on Amazon) orbe planted in a climbing aid:
- Ivy
- Wisteria
- Trumpet Flower
- Clematis (Clematis)
- Morning glory
- Wild Wine
Tip
If hedge plants or bushes are intended to serve as a privacy screen for where the garbage cans are stored, a sufficiently large distance should be taken into account when planting for later growth in width.
