There are now a wide variety of types of privacy protection, each with very specific advantages and disadvantages. However, only some of the diverse types of privacy screens are suitable for decoratively creating privacy on a terrace.
What ideas are there for a privacy screen on the terrace?
Plants such as bamboo, ornamental grasses, onion flowers or climbing plants can be used to provide privacy on the terrace. Using firewood or placing raised beds can also provide effective and decorative privacy.
Bamboo, grasses and other plants in plant troughs
For privacy protection on a terrace, there are countless variations of fabric awnings or plastic tarpaulins that can be stretched along the side of a terrace. However, these are often perceived aesthetically as disruptive factors in a naturally designed garden. In such a case, it is advisable to use a green privacy screen to ensure privacy while sunbathing on your own terrace. This works particularly well if the plants are not simply planted in the ground next to the terrace. Ideally, long, narrow plant troughs (€39.00 on Amazon) should serve as a location for possible variants of a living privacy screen:
- Bamboo
- various ornamental grasses
- Bulb flowers like gladiolus
- climbing climbers like nasturtiums
Climbing plants against gusts of wind and prying eyes
Evergreen climbing plants such as ivy are usually very suitable for adding greenery to a fence in partial shade or shade within a few years. A simple fence on the side of a terrace quickly becomes an effective privacy screen against prying eyes from neighbors. The pleasant side effect: Despite the natural look, such a privacy screen made of densely grown climbing plants, similar to a wooden wall, offers relatively good protection from cool, sideways gusts of wind.
Use the firewood as a privacy screen
A good privacy screen should not only be decorative and inexpensive, but perhaps also advantageous from a functional point of view. If the house or the fire bowl on the terrace is heated with log-shaped firewood, the storage space for this wood can perhaps be brought into line with the desire for an attractive and as natural-looking privacy screen as possible. However, you should ensure that there is always enough distance between an open fire on the terrace and the privacy wall made of stacked firewood. In addition to the possible flying sparks, the dry logs should also be protected from moisture with a sufficiently wide roof. With such a wooden wall made of logs you can enjoy a real hut feeling from an aesthetic point of view.
Tip
If raised beds are cleverly placed next to a terrace, growing vegetables can also provide the desired privacy protection on the terrace. In addition, upcoming maintenance work on the raised beds can be completed at any time without long journeys through the garden.
