How To Create Privacy On A Deck With Plants

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How to create privacy on a deck with plants. Create a secluded haven on your deck by planting small trees in containers to block the view of neighbors. Modern plants can be used for privacy with plants as well. Shrubs maintained as a clipped hedge as shown here are a literal interpretation of walls or fences and create a formal feel.

Formal hedges will need to be sheared annually or even more. Place the shortest plants in the very front so from the outside your deck or patio area is surrounded by a gorgeous layered garden. Plants in Planters as Privacy Screen.

Lay everything out in your yard before you put it in the ground. Flowering standards such as roses Knock Out is an especially disease-resistant rose Tree-form versions of popular shrubs such as lantana and hibiscus. Play with lines curves and heights.

Begin with the tallest plants first and then layer outward by placing your middle-high plants in front of them. Boxwood Buxus spp yew Taxus spp and privet Ligustrum spp are traditional favorites but Ive also seen stunning hedges of quince Chaenomeles spp. Because they make excellent year round privacy screening plants.

Lush plantings around the edge of the deck also help it feel softer and more secluded. Evergreen trees such as arborvitae cypress or juniper. Photo by Old Heritage Garden Center.

Plant a hedge of them along a property line or group 3-5 in a corner. Stage it and move plants around so you make the design yours says Cervoni. An old tree for example helps give the deck more privacy by creating a soft natural canopy.