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Suggestions for Hiding Ugly Back Fence
Andrew James
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Hi everyone
I'm a very new gardener, having bought my first property a few months ago. I'm keen to get stuck in and have been sorting out the front garden. Now it's onto the back.
Please see the attached images. There is a metal, mesh type fence that runs across the back of the garden. Beyond this are some bushes which belong to the field. As you can see on the images, the left side is particularly ugly and this is what I would like to try and sort out.
Would climbing plants be a good place to start? Something that looks pretty and fairly easy to keep under control.
All suggestions are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks
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I would put in a 4ft wooden fence and cut back the vegetation on the other side to give a view. If you want privacy then I would put in a 6ft fence.
If it was on my property, I would clear out the old fence and put in some new hedging. Very similar to work I did on my own garden last year. I'm not sure putting climbers up it will really make it look all that different. It will be ugly with climbers growing up it.
Sounds drastic but it is forming a real focal point in the photographs, whatever you do with the rest of the garden, that view is going to be there.
End I thought?
I love the fact there's a hedge at the end of the garden, it softens the transition from the garden to whatever is on the other side. Fences can look so severe and a bit claustophobic - I'm with Gemma - put in some new wildlife-friendly hedging, maybe higher at the sides and lower in the middle to 'frame' the view - the hedging could then have things like wild clematis (Traveller's Joy/Columbine) and the wild Dog Rose weaving through it, and with any luck you'll get hedgehogs hibernating in the bottom of the hedge
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Don't forget the wild honeysuckle Dove
I think we need Andrew to come back and give us a bit more information
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Trellis on the side pansyface as you suggested, but a lot of the pictures concentrate on the fence at the end, so assumed advice was needed there too?
How could I have forgotten that?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I would be wanting to do something about the ivy that's coming over the fence, it would overwhelm anything that was planted on the garden side.
Just as an aside, I had a lot of this type of fencing when I first moved to my current garden, and I regretted having it taken down - it blocked off an unattractive view of the neighbouring builders' yard. I wonder what the view is like in this case?
From the pictures looks like hedging beyond the fence so the view will not change? We need your input Andrew!