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Plants to cover ten foot high chain link fence.

BMLBML Posts: 151
in Problem solving
I used to have a view across fields with Deer, Pheasants and the like on it until a it was sold to building speculators who built a wooden fence across the end of my garden which did not give me privacy from the twenty windows looking down on me when I went up for a chat with my chickens so I built a ten feet high chain link fence but the hedge plants I put in did not prosper probably because there is a mature Walnut Tree which creates a dark environment. Can anyone suggest what climbing plants that could cover this chain link fence with such an environment?     

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited February 2019
    We have lots of wild ivy growing through the beech hedge and it is steadily climbing the ash tree. It almost couldn’t be in a darker, drier more inhospitable environment - but it thrives. The trunk of the ash tree must now be covered to a height of about 20’.

    I regard it as a weed really and do pull great chunks out when it goes mad in the wrong place. But I leave most of it as it provides additional cover for birds nesting in the hedge and I quite like the flowers or seed clusters it produces.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • MuddyForkMuddyFork Posts: 435
    Russian Vine would easily cover it
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    MuddyFork said:
    Russian Vine would easily cover it
    Russian Vine will cover your fence, next door's, the one after that and so on! I wouldn't recommend it - I speak from experience.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Don’t risk Russian Vine ... there’s one near here that’s covering a hedgerow for a quarter of a mile and is still spreading ... I remember when it was just one plant in a garden that I used to drive past on the way to the coast 😧

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    Do you know if your tree is the Black Walnut or the English Walnut please..?
    East Anglia, England
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