The classic privacy protection variants such as stone walls, privacy hedges and wooden walls do not optimally meet every garden usage concept or requirement. If there is a desire for a so to speak mobile and flexibly adjustable privacy screen variant, then potted plants should be considered rather than a mobile privacy screen.
Which plants are suitable as privacy screens in pots?
Citrus trees, palm trees, banana trees, bamboo, hedge plants such as cypresses, beeches, cherry laurel and annual plants such as sunflowers, nasturtiums or gladiolus are particularly suitable as mobile privacy screens in pots. Potted plants offer flexibility and privacy on terraces or in allotment gardens.
The classic privacy screen for the terrace
On many terraces, potted plants not only provide a Mediterranean flair and green accents, but instead of a rigid stone wall as a terrace border, they also ensure the privacy on the terrace, which is so important for recreational value. The following plants in pots are particularly popular with terrace owners as a symbol of the Mediterranean holiday feeling:
- Lemon and orange trees
- Palm trees
- Banana trees
- Olive trees
- Fig trees
- Kiwis with trellis
Please note, however, that most potted plants are grown in pots for a good reason and need a protected and usually bright winter quarters for the winter.
Bamboo and hedge plants in pots
Many garden owners want bamboo in their garden, but are afraid of planting it in the garden soil, even when planting a Japanese garden. There is too great a fear that the bamboo, once planted, could spread uncontrollably in the future as a stubborn test of patience. This problem, which cannot be ignored, is elegantly avoided if suitable bamboo varieties are simply cultivated in sufficiently large planters. This means you don't have to do without the attractive privacy plant and the bamboo still remains absolutely under control. Typical hedge plants such as cypresses, beeches or cherry laurel can also be used as a living privacy fence in sufficiently large pots if the local conditions (such as a floor sealed with stone slabs) make it necessary.
Annual plants as mobile privacy screens in pots
Not only Mediterranean citrus plants in pots can be used as flexible privacy screens in the garden, many annual plants also look good in pots and plant troughs. For example, sunflowers lined up in a row can create a creative and quite funny picture. Simple bamboo sticks (€24.00 on Amazon) in a small flower pot are enough to give the climbing nasturtium space to develop. Gladiolus usually thrive in a planter and can be used, for example, to raise a privacy wall seasonally or to provide an abundance of flowers on the terrace.
Tip
Mobile potted plants can also serve well as privacy screens where, by definition, such a thing is generally undesirable or even forbidden in the club regulations: In allotment gardens, partitioning is sometimes not welcomed, plants in pots remain in one In such a case, it remains a discreet alternative for a minimum level of privacy.