At our last place there was a telegraph pole in the corner of the front garden ... we found that ignoring it and creating an attractive front garden with a small plum tree planted to draw the eye to the centre of the garden rather than the corner, worked to make the pole almost unnoticeable.
The new folk there have grown a variegated ivy up the pole ... in our opinion it draws attention to it and it's far more obtrusive than it was when it was allowed to blend into the background.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry @Standen1 - vote for a climber here! We have a telegraph pole just outside our garden, between us and next door. There has always been ivy growing up it and when it gets too much towards the top, BT come and chop it back. It's good habitat for insects and the berries are a good food source. We have a cotinus in front of it so the ivy clad telegraph pole makes a good backdrop to that.
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The new folk there have grown a variegated ivy up the pole ... in our opinion it draws attention to it and it's far more obtrusive than it was when it was allowed to blend into the background.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.