Thanks @Fairygirl I’m in the middle of the central belt and it gets cold and frozen in winter. It’s a pity as the trees sound nice but I don’t want to put anything too high near the boundary. I’ve planted a nice crabapple in a huge planter and although it won’t give much screening it’ll at least look lovely come spring. I’m excited about an extended pergola now that will give us some privacy on our low deck area at the back doors. Hopefully even my neighbour will like it although I wouldn’t bet on it... 🤷♀️😊
@Fairygirl Love it and don’t think I’ve not thought about it! 🤣. I came across some metal garden artwork on gumtree which was basically four full height naked ladies in various poses and thought about putting them on plinths on the highest part of the deck by my back doors! 👹😆
@Ferdinand2000 🤣 I dunno though, maybe worse if your name was on the note! Personally I just wouldn’t look in that direction and ignore it. I’m sure there are others who would enjoy that sort of view!
That’s the sort of view we had from the kitchen sink when I was in a student house @amancalledgeorge ... it passed the time for whoever was on the washing up rota 😉 ... I did pop an ‘alert’ note through the letterbox ‘from the students in the house behind you’ but they continued to behave as before and didn’t pull the blind down, so we presumed they were exhibitionists 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello @Wild_Violet, I am very interested to learn if you resolved this and if so, what happened? I have a similar situation developing and wondered whether you found pergolas/sails etc solved things or whether other planting did?
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Hi @clematisdorset It doesn’t seem so long since I posted about this. How time flies!
So we had a large pergola put up on the back wall of the house. The side with the problematic neighbouring window was filled in with wooden lattice panels and the carpenter put in a lattice door for access to “the other side” as there is a deck that runs along the full width of the house. I put up some artificial leaf trellis on the top half of it as I could still see the window as soon as I stepped out the back door into the garden. I’ve planted climbing roses, jasmine and clematis to grow up the pergola but they are taking their time to become established and there’s not much cover in the winter.
The downside of the lattice wall is that is blocks quite a lot of the view of the garden from my own kitchen window. And I do miss the feeling of space of the wider deck - it’s still as wide but chopped up by the lattice screen.
I also had a summerhouse put up along the new fence line and it is effective in blocking the view across my garden from the neighbouring window. Well we can’t see the window at least! I have planted a thuja hedge to replace some of the original hedge but it’s now about 3-4 feet into my garden from the fence. We will grow it as high as we need to (about 2.5m) to block the offending side window. I reckon it’ll take another couple of years to get to that point. I might think about taking down some the pergola’s lattice panels then but it depends how well the plants are growing through them. I’m sorry you are in a similar situation. I don’t think people always realise what kind of impact their changes have on neighbours. But there are some who do and really don’t care. X
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You could always grow some privet or lonicera nitida, and topiarise it into a big V sign aimed at her
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wouldn't do that. It could be a police report.
"Officer, I'm being harrassed by anonymous letters from a pervert who has been watching me in the shower."
I dunno though, maybe worse if your name was on the note! Personally I just wouldn’t look in
that direction and ignore it. I’m sure there are others who would enjoy that sort of view!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It doesn’t seem so long since I posted about this. How time flies!
So we had a large pergola put up on the back wall of the house. The side with the problematic neighbouring window was filled in with wooden lattice panels and the carpenter put in a lattice door for access to “the other side” as there is a deck that runs along the full width of the house.
I put up some artificial leaf trellis on the top half of it as I could still see the window as soon as I stepped out the back door into the garden. I’ve planted climbing roses, jasmine and clematis to grow up the pergola but they are taking their time to become established and there’s not much cover in the winter.
the neighbouring window. Well we can’t see the window at least!
I have planted a thuja hedge to replace some of the original hedge but it’s now about 3-4 feet into my garden from the fence. We will grow it as high as we need to (about 2.5m) to block the offending side window. I reckon it’ll take another couple of years to get to that point. I might think about taking down some the pergola’s lattice panels then but it depends how well the plants are growing through them.
I’m sorry you are in a similar situation. I don’t think people always realise what kind of impact their changes have on neighbours. But there are some who do and really don’t care. X