Use terrace plants as privacy screens

Miss you on your new one terrace privacy? Would you like to block the eyes of the neighbors? Hit two for your patio planting To fly with one stone and you will immediately feel good. Plan that Privacy screen short, medium and long term.

Temporary privacy protection with indoor plants

Many potted plants are also suitable for balconies and patios. Until you have taller patio plants, place large ones Houseplants around your seat. This is how you temporarily shield yourself from prying eyes and it also becomes more cozy.

Warning: Not all indoor plants can withstand direct sunlight. Some of them have to slowly get used to the new light conditions, otherwise the leaves are threatened with sunburn.

Medium-term privacy protection with potted and patio plants

Now you can start to equip your new terrace with potted plants. Design with bushy, small trees. In three to four years these will reach heights of about one meter. Well suited are - depending on the location -

hydrangea, Jasmine, weigela or rhododendron.

Evergreen trees are also suitable as patio plants. Put box or privet in buckets. After a few years, you can give them a back cut or shape cut if necessary. If the big buckets are too bare for you by then, take a seat Balcony plants to the woods.

Fast privacy protection with annual climbing plants

Until the trees are at the height you want and serve as a privacy screen, help yourself Climbing plants. It goes particularly quickly with annual plants. Depending on the season, you can cultivate them from seeds or plant preferred specimens.

Place balcony boxes on the floor and place a climbing aid behind them. Within a few weeks, the climbers shield your seat from view over a large area. Plants such as bell vines, sweet peas, morning glory and climbing nasturtiums are just as quick.

Long-term privacy protection with honeysuckle and Co.

While annual climbing plants die with the growing season, perennial climbers remain. However, these need a few years before they are suitable for full privacy protection. Many of these climbing plants need large volumes Planter and a stable climbing or climbing frame. That is why good planning is very important right from the start.

The decisive factor is whether you only want summer or evergreen climbing plants. The most famous evergreen is the ivy. However, it harbors dangers because it is poisonous, very "propitious to spread" after a few years and is therefore only conditionally suitable for terraces.

Fine wine is non-toxic, but loses its foliage in winter. Only the woody plant parts remain on the trellis. The attractive one Clematis grows quickly and tall, depending on the variety, but is no longer an ornament outside of the growing season.

If you want an evergreen privacy screen with flowers, you should ask the nursery. They will advise you which climbing plants are now on the market as evergreen varieties. You will also be advised to go for the climbing hydrangea "Semiola" or the evergreen honeysuckle "Lonicera henryi". These grow slowly, but in a few years they form an attractive privacy screen.

Special case winter garden

If you need a privacy screen in your conservatory, climbing plants are not likely to be considered. Mediterranean classics such as the bushy growing one are more suitable oleander or Oranges- and lemon trees. Supplemented with lavender your winter garden becomes a fragrant oasis of wellbeing.