ᐅ The hedge has been removed.

@Yvonne

You don’t mow the lawn yourself, do you?
Even though it looks nice, I would be annoyed by the many spots where I can’t reach with the mower.

ypg schrieb:
Almost all plants here are in their 4th year.

YPG, can you tell me how it looks in winter? Are these plants dense enough to block the view? You know what I mean? Because if I’m well protected behind them only in summer but then exposed in winter, I’ll have to consider other plants...

I really like the look!

We also have a fully overgrown garden. But only in summer. In winter, it’s no longer like that. It really doesn’t bother us since we mostly don’t spend time in the garden during winter. So, not at all.

Is it different for others?

Of course, I’m not in the garden during winter, but I have a huge window front without any external blinds or similar, so I don’t want to be completely visible from the street in winter. Therefore, I need something that has "substance" even in winter, and, for example, not a hornbeam, which is very nice but stands "bare" in winter.

Sondelgeher12 schrieb:
YPG, can you tell me how it looks in winter? Are these plants dense enough for privacy? You know what I mean? Because if I’m well protected behind them only in summer but then fully exposed in winter, I’ll have to consider other plants...

Visually, I really like it!

The photos actually still show the winter view, although they were taken spontaneously yesterday. Both hornbeam and beech only lose their dry leaves in April/May when the new ones start to grow. So, in winter, you can see through a bit, which is important to me because of moss growth in shaded areas during the dark months. Also, the external appearance matters a lot here, since it doesn’t look fully opaque from outside—this is part of the burglary prevention! But a pedestrian would have to stop to really look through. During the day, window reflections prevent seeing inside; in the evening, we keep roller shutters down.
I’ll take one or two photos to show how visibility can be further reduced from the hedge side/walkway.
The only downside now is the leaves [emoji6]

The terrace from the lawn side: evergreen bamboo with 2-meter (6.5 feet) tall grasses in between (the grasses were cut back in March)

And now from the walkway side:

Musketier schrieb:
@Yvonne

You don’t mow the lawn yourself, right?
Even though it looks nice, I would get annoyed by all the spots where the mower can’t reach.

Ronny, my husband, mows it himself.
But I would like to trim the corners with bushes and have a vegetable bed in one corner, so he has less to do (for example, a rock garden around the fire pit with rhododendrons, etc.), but he doesn’t mind and manages with a battery-powered mower. That’s what he says. Twice a week is fine for him, and it also balances out his office sitting [emoji2]