Thanks Blue Onion ! One of my initial ideas was to plant a generous gardener rose on the first fence. I suppose that if it is suitable for a north facing wall then it should do fine under the tree canopies (the fence still get a bit of sun anyway - 2 to 3 hours a day). Does anyone has this rose in their garden? I think that having a deciduous climber is the right think to do. I love the view of the field behind that we get in winter and it would be a shame to block it (it does not really matter in Summer as the view is already blocked by the foliage of the trees anyway). Lyn the fence is made out of blackthorn. Unfortunately half of our back hedge was dead so we decided to cut the remaining half and plant a replacement in autumn instead. We used the sticks to build the fence & the large posts have been anchored quite deeply with additional stones and rubbles around. I think it should be ok for a rose but you are probably right, wisteria would need additional support especially as the back of the garden gets quite windy in winter now the hedge is gone. But I really love the idea of wisteria Food for though, just need to come up with a clever idea to reinforced the fence! Thanks Flinster, it looks ok now but removing all the rubbish out of the back has given me many backaches! The worst part was to remove all the springs of an old mattress that had been buried into the ground. The place was crawling with weeds. I had no idea brambles could grow so big and for several weeks I had scratches all over my body trying to fight them!
If you're worried about the weight of the roses, get some t-posts and spray paint them black. Pound them in about every four feet along your fence, and run a wire along the top level with the top of your fence. It should be fairly unnoticeable, but support the bulk of the weight.
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Lyn the fence is made out of blackthorn. Unfortunately half of our back hedge was dead so we decided to cut the remaining half and plant a replacement in autumn instead. We used the sticks to build the fence & the large posts have been anchored quite deeply with additional stones and rubbles around. I think it should be ok for a rose but you are probably right, wisteria would need additional support especially as the back of the garden gets quite windy in winter now the hedge is gone. But I really love the idea of wisteria
Thanks Flinster, it looks ok now but removing all the rubbish out of the back has given me many backaches! The worst part was to remove all the springs of an old mattress that had been buried into the ground. The place was crawling with weeds. I had no idea brambles could grow so big and for several weeks I had scratches all over my body trying to fight them!