Single roses are indeed excellent @Fire. Roses which are left to produce hips are also very valuable. @Lyn - you're losing the plot completely - it isn't @CharlotteF that has the ivy/neighbour problem, it's @rolanda.woo
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I had a Jasmine, can’t remember the name but the flowers should have been yellow, it covered an arch, I never saw a flower on it in the 7 years it was there, dug it out in the end,untidy things.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Single roses are indeed excellent @Fire. Roses which are left to produce hips are also very valuable. @Lyn - you're losing the plot completely - it isn't @CharlotteF that has the ivy/neighbour problem, it's @rolanda.woo
Oh yes! So it was😀😀 Have to say I agree with you about the roses, I’ve got some gorgeous big hips on the Rosa Rugosa.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Fire, my garden is like yours! London Victorian house garden - long and narrow (3.4m across)!
Our fences with the neighbours are those low fences at the back (high fence in the front near the house). So I'm not sure if I can grow those really big climbers on low fence.
I'm actually very pessimistic about planting any climber which requires lots of trimming, as the garden's width just doesn't allow a very thick growth.
Our house in London had fences like that, my mum put pots of fuchsias and pelargoniums all over the high part near the back door and just flowers at the back end, we used to like a natter with the neighbours in those days. It’s all about privacy nowadays.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Perhaps multiple smaller clems and roses might work better. Sellers like Thorncrofts, David Austin, Trevor White and Peter Beale have sites with fairly good filters so you can view by size, season, colour etc.
I grew a montana and it brought the other fence down and was a bit of a nightmare for the other neighbour. I would love to try a solanum album but I think that will have to wait for the next garden. But it sounds like you will stick with the ivy for now and try and reign it in a bit. Good luck with your garden plans.
Our house in London had fences like that, my mum put pots of fuchsias and pelargoniums all over the high part near the back door and just flowers at the back end, we used to like a natter with the neighbours in those days. It’s all about privacy nowadays.
Yes, I do enjoy the chats with my neighbours at the back in a sunny afternoon. Right now, at the end of the shed, the fences have gone for at least over a year. Neither of us have the urgency to put up new ones. My neighbour would actually allow my son go through the gap to her side to see her plants and flowers. A couple of times, she even let him go over there to catch ants for his ant farm... . I also took advantage of the gap to clean up my garden a few times through her garden door, as we are mid-terrace without direct access to outside (a rather inconvenient layout).
I wouldn't want to use high fence in our current situation. Both sides of neighbours are calm and nice people.
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@Lyn - you're losing the plot completely - it isn't @CharlotteF that has the ivy/neighbour problem, it's @rolanda.woo
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have to say I agree with you about the roses, I’ve got some gorgeous big hips on the Rosa Rugosa.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Our fences with the neighbours are those low fences at the back (high fence in the front near the house). So I'm not sure if I can grow those really big climbers on low fence.
I'm actually very pessimistic about planting any climber which requires lots of trimming, as the garden's width just doesn't allow a very thick growth.
I wouldn't want to use high fence in our current situation. Both sides of neighbours are calm and nice people.