Braid fence elements from branches yourself
With an easy-to-make privacy screen made of branches, you can protect parts of your garden oasis from prying eyes in a natural way and create a special atmosphere in the enclosed garden area. As a material for this, you can use different types of branches that arise when pruning trees and bushes. In terms of the required elasticity, however, these should be freshly cut and generally not much thicker than a finger. Put straight branches with a larger cross-section at a distance of five to ten centimeters into the ground. To do this, first stretch a string along the planned course line, as when planting a privacy hedge, to make it easier to stay in the straight line.Then take the thinner branches and weave them alternately through the trellis of the branches vertically arranged in a row. To avoid gaps in the braid, you should always pay attention to different transitions between the individual branches.
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Branches as trellises for climbing plants
Branches stuck into the ground as fences are also suitable as trellises for fast-growing, attractively flowering climbing plants. The long, unbranched branches of the hazelnut, which grows again after each pruning, are particularly suitable for this. The following climbing plants, for example, provide a particularly decorative look to a covered privacy fence in the farm or vegetable garden, which grows upwards within a few weeks after sowing:
- Black-eyed Susan
- Morning glories
- Creeping nasturtiums
The flowers of the nasturtiums can even be harvested together with the lettuce and used as an edible flower decoration in your own kitchen.
Let willow branches take root and use them as a green privacy screen
Late winter is the ideal time to prune willow branches for a green privacy screen. With these not only can the already widespread children's tipi be planted in the garden, but also attractive fences with a narrow width and a correspondingly economical use of space in the available garden area can be implemented. In any not too dry location, willows take root reliably and sprout new ones very quickly. The cuttings, which are between 50 and 200 cm long, should be sunk at least 15 cm deep into the ground, which is particularly easy after heavy rainfall.
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For an automatic height limitation and an aesthetic look, the upper shoots of the willow cuttings can be woven into a kind of handrail. For this purpose, branches stuck diagonally into the soil are woven into the vertically rising branches with aesthetic regularity and are braided with the respective neighboring cuttings at the desired height.
