Terrace wall to the neighbor - What should we consider?

Name: Terrace wall to the neighbor - What should we consider?
Rating: 5 (9 reviews)

2025-07-21 11:30:21

No, photinia and especially yew grow significantly slower.

Photinia grows at a similar speed to cherry laurel, at least here. Yew much slower. But that's also the reason for the note about the price, you can buy correspondingly tall shrubs.

2025-07-21 13:49:35

Actually, you would have to completely roof over the garden so that no one from the upper floors can look in.

Instead of cherry laurel, native shrubs also work.
The whole "privacy screen in the whole garden" thing is completely foreign to me. We have a 90cm(!) fence between the gardens and only the terrace is walled in. Otherwise, with the narrow gardens, it would be an eyesore.
In general, it is agreed that you can have shrubs and fruit trees as pillars or espalier directly at the boundary fence.
That's it.
This is how townhouses work when the gardens are not 10m+ wide. Like a allotment garden next to your own terrace.

Everything else is use cases for large gardens of detached houses or semi-detached houses.
I find the whole situation, where everyone wants a privacy screen from 1.8m upwards to be able to move invisibly everywhere in their own garden, extremely strange.

Does the Ruhr area really think so differently?

2025-07-21 14:45:58

Actually, you would have to completely cover the garden so that no one from the upper floors can look in.

In our old apartment, the balconies were above the gardens of the ground floor apartments. Those, in turn, were lined up next to each other in a row.

Terrace wall to the neighbor - What should we consider?

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