With a great yard comes great responsibility. Your backyard can be you and your family’s safe haven, a bright and relaxing place to take a time out and savor those moments of fun and rest. It can be a wonderful place to have guests over and throw something on the barbecue, or maybe a place to take a dip or let the kids run through the sprinkler. The one thing about backyards, though, is that noise from the neighbors can become a genuine nuisance. Nobody really wants a confrontation, and moreover things like yardwork and maintenance need to get done. There’s no way around some background noise and hubbub. There are, however, some great ways to increase the privacy of your backyard. Here are three tips.

Let the flowers and shrubbery grow!

Plant beautiful flowers, bushes, shrubs and hedges along the perimeters of your yard or even a particular enclave of the yard to create a private, secluded space. Use raised beds to make flowers and bushes even more effective at keeping your yard separate from your neighbor’s yard. Flowers, plants and bushes are even more effective when planted in conjunction with fencing or lattices, which is tip number two.

Consider fencing and lattices

At Adelaide Fence Centre we have a whole range of fences you can choose from to suit your yard. In some cases you might want something that leaves breathability and some view but also provides you privacy, and lattice can be a good compromise that gives both privacy and some openness. It is particularly good as a basis for entwining flowers and shrubbery around too, such as climbing roses or idyllic vines. Fencing and lattices are a superb option to get you some privacy and a little bit more quiet in the backyard.

Get creative

One way to spruce up a fence or hedge is to install a fountain along with plants that have a sound buffering effect such as tall grasses that make a nice ambient sound as the wind brushes through them or quaking aspen that also makes a lovely sound as the breeze comes through. This will help deflect any bothersome noise in the local area and make your backyard a real magic haven. Another splendid touch is to install a fountain which will gurgle out a relaxing melody and soften the edges of whatever clamor is going on outside the domain of your backyard.

As always we hope these tips have given you some new and inspiring ideas for how to create your own secret garden in your backyard in order that it can be a sanctuary and unique place for fun and relaxation. There are many more ideas out there as well that we’d be happy to talk over with you for how to lay out and design a backyard that can be everything you want it to be. Don’t hesitate to contact us at Adelaide Fence Centre for more advice about how to use fencing and lattices to your greatest advantage in creating the perfect, private backyard.