Something similar to this might work especially if you use thicker timber and either end of your trellis panel and fix into the upright posts Then climbers as suggested. Growing trees would be rather slow and expensive.
Great, that's like I was thinking about although I'm going to put some additional horizontal slats in as well. I'll plant the trees in pots and have a go at pleaching them. They'll probably be grown by about the time the fence needs replacing.
Great but you need really big pots for trees and they are not cheap, they would grow much better in properly prepared borders and would be easier to look after.
I'm looking at pleaching photinias - they've got a bit of colour interest unlike other trees and we have to keep them in pots as we're not allowed to plant trees in the ground. The joys of a new build estate!
Fencing disputes are numerous according to my solicitor friend. I love Photinia as hedging, it has interest all the year around. Another solution is a lot more expensive but won't take away from the width of your garden. Non invasive clump forming Bambusa Textiles Gracilis. Its a bamboo, grows tall, is evergreen and gives a light screening. Also lots of movement in the wind. Google it, looks lovely and gives a good hedging. You can buy different heights. From experience do your best to keep your neighbour onside, it will be awful if you have to feel uncomfortable going in your garden. good luck.
So the trellis went up this weekend. I’m very happy with it as a temporary solution. Their garden still leans on the fence which will cause it to Rot prematurely. It’s cost me £500 all in as I had to get a joiner in to fix it properly to the front as they said it had to be on my side and I couldn’t use the fence extension posts I’d bought which would have allowed it to sit on the baton. I did ask if they’d contribute towards the cost of this but got no direct reply other than to say they were struggling with finances....and then they bought a corner rattan sofa set! Next job is feeding and training the photonia marble into pleached trees.
If that's a sunny side of the garden, what about Griselinia Litoralis? They're evergreen, indestructible, pretty and put on several feet of growth a year - you can easily buy some at around £30 each which are already over 5ft, so would give you some privacy within a season. I have seven neighbours and use these as loose informal hedging - you can plant them 1.5m apart and they'll fill in and up super-quick Also, they grow mostly straight up, so won't spill over into your neighbour's garden and they aren't dense, so won't block their light. Even if you wanted to use them for a couple years till your other planting grows in, you could chop them down when they're no longer needed just with a pruning saw...Anyway, good luck - my garden is a couple feet lower than all my neighbours so I had a huge privacy issue and Griselinia solved the problem on all sides and even the grumbliest neighbours are happy with them I got mine delivered in fab condition from Trevena Cross Nursery.
I think it's too late @Tanty2 - OP has already purchased. I think you'll have trouble keeping those alive in those wee pots @Bobbibrowngirlie. They can be iffy at the best of times. A clematis would have been much easier
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The general rule is fencing in the back garden should not exceed 2 metres. Don’t antagonise your neighbours or they could bring the matter up with the planning department and you might be obliged to remove it.
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Then climbers as suggested. Growing trees would be rather slow and expensive.
I think you'll have trouble keeping those alive in those wee pots @Bobbibrowngirlie. They can be iffy at the best of times.
A clematis would have been much easier
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...