4 LANDSCAPING IDEAS TO CREATE PRIVACY IN THE BACKYARD
The backyard is an extension of your home. If you want to feel comfortable enough to relax and enjoy all that your outdoor space has to offer, you’ll want to shield your backyard from the view of nosy neighbors! Establishing privacy in your backyard through strategic landscaping will make your summer activities that much more enjoyable. If you want to barbecue steaks in your underwear while dancing to Harry Styles, that’s your prerogative! Here are some clever ideas to bring some privacy to the backyard without constructing a ten-foot fence.
Flowering Shrubs for Backyard Privacy Hedges
Beautiful blooming shrubs bring long-lasting color and visual interest to the landscape. They’re also great for establishing structure and separation between different areas of the backyard. Plant them in a row to create a wall of lush greenery and pretty flowers! Depending on your chosen varieties, you can prune them into a uniform shape or let nature work its magic as they grow taller and fuller.
Here are some of our favorite flowering shrubs for backyard privacy hedges and the maximum sizes they’ll reach at maturity:
Red Chokeberry: 7 feet tall, 5 feet wide
Royal Red Butterfly Bush: 6 feet tall, 5 feet wide
Ivory Halo Dogwood: 6 feet tall, 5 feet wide
Bailey Red-Twig Dogwood: 10 feet tall, 10 feet wide
Royal Purple Smokebush: 10 feet tall, 10 feet wide
Compact Winged Burning Bush: 7 feet tall, 7 feet wide
Meadowlark Forsythia: 9 feet tall, 7 feet wide
Sugar Tip Rose of Sharon: 10 feet tall, 5 feet wide
Peppermint Smoothie Rose of Sharon: 8 feet tall, 4 feet wide
Pee Gee Hydrangea: 10 feet tall, 10 feet wide
There are plenty more flowering privacy shrubs available at Dammann’s Garden Co., plus plenty of non-flowering evergreen shrubs that hold their color throughout the winter. Visit our garden center to discover all our gorgeous options for the backyard!
Create a Line of Columnar Trees
Columnar trees that grow tall but remain narrow and compact are perfect for creating privacy borders! You can plant them much more closely together because their roots don’t spread as wide as varieties with large crowns. Some are evergreens and have consistent year-round color, while others are deciduous and have gorgeous fall foliage. There are even some flowering and fruiting varieties!
Here are some fantastic columnar trees you can plant in rows for backyard privacy and their average mature size:
Weeping Blue Spruce: 40 feet tall, 5 feet wide
Joe Kozey Umbrella Pine: 20 feet tall, 5 feet wide
Fairy Lights Arborvitae: 12 feet tall, 3 feet wide
Tangy Green Columnar Apple: 10 feet tall, 3 feet wide
Hetz Columnar Juniper: 15 feet tall, 8 feet wide
Red Obelisk Beech: 40 feet tall, 10 feet wide
Taylor Redcedar: 18 feet tall, 4 feet wide
Slender Silhouette Sweet Gum: 50 feet tall, 10 feet wide
Install a Lattice Trellis Wall
A lattice wall only slightly obscures sightlines, but if you train creeping vines to climb up and around it, you’ll have a lush wall of colorful foliage and flowers! Try climbing plants like Clematis, Trumpet Vine, English Ivy, Climbing Hydrangeas, Virginia Creeper, Climbing Roses, Grapes, or Wisteria!
We especially love lattice walls for providing some privacy for backyard dining areas. The sense of intimacy really adds to the ambiance of your space. Add some mood lighting and comfy seating, and you’ll never want to leave the house and go to a restaurant patio again! Your backyard eatery will be the hotspot of the summer.
Plant Tall Grasses
We love ornamental grasses for the gentle movement and gorgeous texture contrast they bring to our backyard scenery. If you plant especially tall varieties along fence lines, they’ll provide you with some privacy, too! Look for varieties that reach 4 feet tall or higher, such as:
If you’d like some more backyard privacy ideas in 2022, come visit Dammann’s Garden Co. and explore all our gorgeous landscape plants, outdoor furniture, and accessories. You never know when inspiration may strike!