Whether you want to block out your nosy neighbors, or just have a private setting to enjoy a good book outdoors in your yard, we all relish our own private space. Creating more privacy with peaceful landscaping ideas makes your experience more tranquil.

Live Privacy Screens

  • Trees offer a wonderful and natural privacy screen in yards, especially if you have a large area to work with. Trees provide a bit of privacy, and also the comfort of shade to cool your yard. Its recommended to plant flowering shrubs, plants, bushes and other perennials arranged around the trees to give a beautiful privacy landscape year round. Evergreens planted in an uneven formation, along with ornamental trees and other flowering plants, are another idea for privacy. Groups of varying-sized leaf and trunk trees give a thicker blockage of views, especially if planted with tall shrubs and perennials arranged in staggered rows. A row of hedges also provides a nice green privacy.
  • Numerous ready-made fences are available to purchase and put up for privacy, or create your own using some of the ideas on the. One fence idea is to stagger different-colored, treated boards along the perimeter of your yard. Place shrubs and decorative trees along the inside of the fence and add other landscape ideas, like a partial wall separating the plants.
  • A natural stone wall presents a bold landscape with adequate privacy; however, it may confine air flow to your yard. Building a partial stone or brick wall about 2 to 3 feet, and mounting a 3- to 4-foot lattice or other fencing material on top of the stone wall. A custom-created masonry stucco or stone wall, shaped with openings and decorative new or recycled cast iron railings incorporated in the spaces, gives a more nostalgic wall that allows privacy as well as an adequate breezeway.
  • Decorative garden containers with potted plants like clumping bamboo, dwarf evergreen, ornamental grasses, arborvitae, or a mixture of colorful flowers can be used on patios, decks or anywhere in your yard to give a live landscape screening. Use lightweight pots or attach wheels on the bottom of your containers for easy mobility to move them where they are needed as you sit in your yard.

Pergolas and gazebos are another way to work garden and patio structures into a nice private outdoor sitting place. Add clinging vines, hanging plants or lattice panels along the sides to create more privacy. Outdoor ponds and fountains integrated into your landscape provide a peaceful environment and can block out noise from neighbors or traffic.

Garage/Pole Barn

  • If you have adequate yard space and can afford it, add a detached garage or pole barn to block neighbor’s views to your yard while giving extra storage space. Many of the newer do-it-yourself plans have optional side overhangs from the structure that could be made into a pleasant sitting area with a roof for shade. Plan the layout of the sitting area to look into your backyard or pond or other private landscape haven.

 

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