How to Landscape for Privacy

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While cities offer accessibility, excitement, and culture, they can also mean traffic, noise, and lack of privacy. This can make us long for a more rural lifestyle. Fortunately, landscaping can create a rural oasis in the midst of the action, and it will also add desirable privacy too.

The following suggestions will provide privacy from the outside world. Or, you can integrate a private nook within your Denver landscape design.

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Source: Better Homes and Gardens

Structural Privacy

One of the fastest ways to gain instant privacy is to use hardscaping. Fences, lattice work, and screens can work to provide a no-view or partial-view of the outside world.

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Source: mark pinkerton – vi360 photography via Houzz

Fences. A traditional fence is always a good option for creating a backyard oasis that is kept entirely separate from the outside world. It works in larger spaces, but a smaller backyard may end up feeling boxed in if you aren’t careful.

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Source: Susan Cohan, APLD via Houzz

Panels or Lattice work. These vertical panels of lattice are more solid than traditional lattice work. By painting them, you can enhance the design appeal for backyard guests. They also provide privacy, while still allowing an outside view. You can use solid paneling for a more stylish barrier.

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Source: Carson Poetzl, Inc. via Houzz

Screens. Even freestanding screens can be used for privacy. To winter winds, you will want to reinforce them with metal or wooden posts. Climbing plants can be added for color and greenery.

Fall is the season to design and build your hardscaping, so it’s ready to go when warmer weather returns.

Living Privacy

Besides the use of climbing plants to create privacy on trellises, you can use containers and fast-growing plants for a softer barrier between you and your neighbors.

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Source: Mark English Architects, AIA via Houzz

Containers. Large-scale containers are an artful way to create a partial physical barrier. Grasses, flowering plants, and trees can be added to soften the effect.

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Source: Stephanie Ann Davis Landscape Design via Houzz

Fast-growing plants. Bamboo and horsetail are both fast-growing and tenacious plants. However, when you contain their roots, they make an excellent living fence.

The best of both worlds. This Better Homes and Gardens article has beautiful examples of how hardscaping and landscaping can be combined to enhance privacy and visual interest.

The design experts at Lifescape are eager to assist you and your Denver landscape design. Contact us today to get started!