Benefits of a garden hedge for your outdoor area

Natural privacy & security

A hedge forms a natural barrier that can be set flexibly and according to your own taste. As a privacy screen around your garden, it ensures that strangers cannot look into your garden unhindered. At the same time, a thickly grown garden hedge can also serve as a protective fence and ensure, for example, that pets, children or strangers cannot leave or enter the garden.

But a hedge can also serve as protection in other ways. It can also protect against prying eyes in front of windows or doors, makes curtains obsolete and can also make it more difficult for potential burglars to enter your apartment or house.

Be it from unwanted glances or from unwanted entry onto your property: a hedge provides both and guarantees you complete privacy and security.

A refuge for small animals

A garden hedge is a safe haven for various plants and small animals. Birds, hedgehogs and various insects find shelter and protection from heat, dryness and natural enemies here. Hedges are also popular with butterflies - another ornament for your garden.

However, this is not about individual small creatures that find a home in a garden hedge. Rather, a hedge is home to an entire ecosystem, which helps to preserve and strengthen nature and biodiversity, regardless of whether it is in the country or in the city.

It should also be noted that climbing plants are also ideal as hedges. Not only do they create a wonderful privacy screen, but they also serve as an ideal food reservoir for bees and other insects.

Clear demarcation of your property

Especially in densely populated areas, but also in the countryside, it is an advantage if you can clearly show the boundaries of your living space or your property. A hedge is an ideal way to clearly define the boundaries of your property without attracting negative visual attention. In fact, a garden hedge can help you to create clarity and at the same time beautify the property and garden. A hedge takes up little space and still does its job perfectly. This way you retain as much space as possible and leave room for other plants, trees or garden furniture of any kind.

You can further decorate your garden hedge by letting various climbing plants grow on it.

Wind protection in green

There is nothing more annoying than strong wind on a sunny day when you want to enjoy your garden and the sun. A garden hedge can help here too. And it is much better than a corresponding wall. Not only is it easier to maintain, it is also visually more attractive and offers a natural, non-artificial and therefore more environmentally friendly option for wind protection. A hedge also contributes to the production of oxygen while absorbing CO2 and providing pleasant shade.

Noise reduction

Be it the vehicles on surrounding streets, people walking past or just the neighbors. Especially in cities we are exposed to a certain amount of noise. It would be ideal if the boundary of the property also did something to combat the noise. And this is exactly what a garden hedge makes possible. It dampens the surrounding noise. You can decide for yourself how much noise reduction you would like. Depending on how dense the hedge you choose is, it can isolate more or less noise and sounds.

Outdoor room dividers

A garden hedge can be the perfect solution not only as a natural border for your property. A hedge is also ideal as a room divider outside the house. Be it as a "partition" between the barbecue area and the pool or as a decorative privacy screen between the trampoline and the seating area. You can order a hedge to your exact dimensions and use it as a creative and decorative element in your garden or property. There is a wide selection of possible plant species available, all of which fulfil their function and create a different image depending on the type. There are hardly any limits to your creativity.

Lower expense

Compared to a boundary wall, a garden hedge is a simple option. It is easy to cultivate, just as easy to plant and requires less maintenance than other plants or masonry. All you need to do is water the hedge regularly and, if you wish, trim it now and then. Unlike masonry, you do not need to regularly clean or remove moss from a hedge and you can easily influence the speed of growth by choosing the right type of plant. If the hedge no longer looks healthy and attractive at some point, it is easy to plant a new hedge and, thanks to its rapid growth, create a new, natural barrier in no time.

Decoratively hide unsightly things

We put a lot of different things in a garden. From the seating area, the dining table, the trampoline, the pool, the fire pit to the compost heap. Not all things are equally nice to look at and it is therefore ideal if you can hide certain things. Instead of using plastic covers or other artificial products that take up far too much space, you can also use a hedge here. Be it the neighbor's garden, the compost heap or an old shed. With a hedge you can hide unwanted things in a natural and nice way.

the essentials in brief

From visual protection and noise protection to garden boundaries, protection from unwanted glances and possible burglars, to decoration and the preservation of biodiversity: we can see that a garden hedge is a true all-rounder and fulfils several functions at once.

It is always beautiful to look at and will delight not only you but also those around you, while giving you complete freedom in terms of creativity and individuality.

If a garden hedge takes too long to grow, you can find fully grown ivy hedges in various heights in our shop ready to plant.