If you google garden design you get video clips that may helpyou. Also there are loads of Gradeners world also on youtube. There was aseries by alan titchmarsh about designing a garden. Someone on this forum is bond to know what i am talking about!
Will keep thinking and let you know if I have a eureka moment.
You can grow climbers up the fence, either on trellis or on wires - clematis (depends on the variety when they flower), honeysuckle, roses. Then you can plant shrubs, tall ones and short ones to break up the view, between the climbers. Some evergreen shrubs to hide the fence in winter would be could, like photinia "Red Robin", euonymus, choisya, some flowering like weigela, exochorda "the Bride", Abelia, spireas. You can buy a gardening book or look them up on Google. You could plant some tall perennials like verbena bonariensis.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I have Pyracantha groing up my fence. It is evergreen, produces berries for the Blackbirds (they prefer the red ones) and produces creamy flowers in the spring. It will grow up to about 3 meters (10 ft ) Worth considering .
Clematis montana grows very quickly and in 2 years would probably cover the fence. It is an early flowerer so another later flowing clematis or a honeysuckle might be good for more interest. Don't discount ivy, great for wildlife and provides good coverage. Enjoy
Thank you Rosa for the lovely video (above). There are several other videos too, but I watched the one about climbers with the lovely Geoff Hamilton, wish he was still here.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I will have to check with my husband but in the summer we get the sun from around 10-3/4
Rosa- the garden or the fence?
Thanks for the clematis advice sotongeoff
Think it is South West facing
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouUR8Yxi7M
If you google garden design you get video clips that may helpyou. Also there are loads of Gradeners world also on youtube. There was aseries by alan titchmarsh about designing a garden. Someone on this forum is bond to know what i am talking about!
Will keep thinking and let you know if I have a eureka moment.
You can grow climbers up the fence, either on trellis or on wires - clematis (depends on the variety when they flower), honeysuckle, roses. Then you can plant shrubs, tall ones and short ones to break up the view, between the climbers. Some evergreen shrubs to hide the fence in winter would be could, like photinia "Red Robin", euonymus, choisya, some flowering like weigela, exochorda "the Bride", Abelia, spireas. You can buy a gardening book or look them up on Google. You could plant some tall perennials like verbena bonariensis.
Thanks everyone for all your advice so far, extremely helpful
I have Pyracantha groing up my fence. It is evergreen, produces berries for the Blackbirds (they prefer the red ones) and produces creamy flowers in the spring. It will grow up to about 3 meters (10 ft ) Worth considering .
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Clematis montana grows very quickly and in 2 years would probably cover the fence. It is an early flowerer so another later flowing clematis or a honeysuckle might be good for more interest. Don't discount ivy, great for wildlife and provides good coverage. Enjoy
Thank you Rosa for the lovely video (above). There are several other videos too, but I watched the one about climbers with the lovely Geoff Hamilton, wish he was still here.