Landscaping to Maximize Your Privacy in 2021 in Dublin and New Albany OH Areas
Spending more and more time in your Dublin and New Albany, OH, areas yard could have you thinking about adding more privacy. These landscaping ideas to maximize the secluded feel of your 2021 landscape can help you decide the best way to create a more intimate space.
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Living Screen
One of the amazing things about a living screen can be not only the increased privacy it brings but the color, texture, and interest it adds to the landscape. Your landscape contractor can help you choose an evergreen tree that keeps its leaves all year round so that you never return to a lack of privacy.
Another excellent way that your landscaper can add more a more secluded feel to the living screen can be to layer other shrubs and plants in front of the trees so that you have some contrasting greens of other types and seasonal color from the flowers and berries. Layering can be an amazing way to create the gorgeous view that you want within your yard while increasing that secluded feel. Because the maintenance of a living screen can be planned to stay minimal, there won’t be extra work but there will be extra loveliness.
Add a Trellis
Your landscaper can incorporate a wall or two into the patio space to bring more privacy. With a trellis wall, you won’t have to forego the cool breezes because the openings can still let the airflow through for comfort. A trellis wall can be the ideal place to plant some blooming and climbing vines for colorful floral beauty in most seasons.
To keep your trellis wall from feeling too enclosed, have your landscaper add some twinkle lights to the top of (or within) the trellis for a soft glow that looks amazing once the sun sets. With comfortable furniture and wonderfully scented flowers, this is sure to become a favorite quiet spot within your landscape.
An innovative idea for a living screen and the trellis can be to have your landscaper alternate the two features on one side of your yard to provide the trees and plants you want with interspersed flowers and the delightful fragrances that they put out. This way you can have a variety of green tones and the pop of flower colors, too.
Entertain a Pergola
One of the great things about a pergola can be that it can be placed almost anywhere within your yard. This structure rests on heavy wood posts or columns that are anchored in stone bases and topped with beams. Your pergola can also be constructed of steel posts and steel slats to cover the top for a more urban look.
With four open sides, the cool breeze can still flow through but you can add curtains that can be let loose from their holders for more privacy and less wind. Your landscape contractor can make any number of walls in the trellis style if you desire to have that featured in your pergola or you can leave it open on all sides. You can choose to have built-in planters on any side to combine the pergola with some living screen plants and shrubs or you could place one side beside a wall or fence to build an espalier.
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About the Author:
In 2001, Shawn Rine decided he would like to earn a little pocket change. With a used mower and lots of hard work, he got his neighbors' yards into shape in no time. Nearly two decades later, Rine Landscape Group has a few more mowers – not to mention a staff of certified landscape specialists and an extensive portfolio of innovative, functional landscape projects in neighborhoods all over the Greater Columbus Metro Area.