The most beautiful ideas to imitate

Use the winter to paint a privacy fence

Usually, wooden fences in the garden are dreary gray-brown or inconspicuous Hunter green painted. How about for a change and for the desired oomph in a family garden with a picket fence with cheekily patterned fence pickets? This garden project can be realized with the whole family as a winter handicraft in a small workshop or in the hobby room in the basement, which is well protected from paint splashes. Just get hold of the following items and you can start painting:

• the required number of fence pickets
• Fence posts and cross bars (for later assembly outdoors)
• waterproof varnishes in various colors
• brushes of different thicknesses

Then paint the fence slats with different patterns or motifs to your heart's content. Children are usually thrilled when they can admire their own painting on their own picket fence every day in summer.

Windows on the screen wall as an optical illusion and decorative refinement

In the last few years a funny design trend for the garden has become more and more popular: wooden Screen walls with real or replica window frames fitted with a mirror instead of the usual glazing are. This creates the optical illusion that the mirror acts like a window through which one can look into the surroundings. There is hardly a more attractive way to visually enhance the gray concrete wall of a garage on the neighboring property. To further enhance the window effect, a balcony box can be placed under the window Geraniums or hanging petunias can be mounted.

Climbing plants on the lattice fence

In one small garden When it comes to privacy protection, you quickly come up against spatial limits. In a very limited garden area, it can therefore make sense to Climbing plants how to use ivy as a year-round green privacy screen with minimal space requirements. Iron grids are an inexpensive and easy-to-assemble trellis. These should be galvanized (even if they will probably soon become overgrown) for reasons of durability.

As charming as a ruined castle: the irregularly shaped stone wall

Stone baskets (or "gabions") are nowadays considered a particularly quick and at the same time permanent variant of a stone wall in the garden. Visually much more charming, however, are the stone walls, shaped like a historic castle ruin, with their irregular height and integrated hanging pots for flowers, ideally made of historic bricks from demolished houses be straightened up. Please note, however, that the construction of such stone walls often requires separate permits from the locally responsible building authority.