I grow a Hydrangea petiolaris up my six foot fence without any problems. I trim it off at the top. The blackbirds love to nest in it. The fence does belong to me though. You could always plant small trees and bushes to make an attractive screen.
Hydranga Petiolaris is lovely once it gets going, but it can be a bit slow. It enjoys a north-facing aspect, but ours is not evergreen, is that unusual?
Gardenfanatic, perhaps I'm odd, but I wouldn't let an ivy plant get that out of control, especially if it wasn't mine. And those ash trees seem to be too near the fence in the background.
There is a historic wall at the end of my garden where we have grown a number of plants over the last 15 years. The land has recently been bought by a developer and he wants to knock the wall down and rebuild.
If the wall is on his land and it's his wall, I guess not. Have you talked to him about it? seems strange that he wants to rebuild it - I wonder if it's damaged?
I have had a Hydrangea Petiolaris growing on a south facing fence it's been there for around 10 years now and it is true that blackbirds love to nest in it as we had a nest this time last year. I took a layered cutting from it about 5 years ago and after growing it in a pot for a couple of years I have planted it behind my garage facing north, it has been there for 3 years and it looks like it is growing well. Good valued plant.
Not a lot unfortunately. A new neighbour recently moved in to the house (and garden) that runs along my back fence. The previous owners planted all sorts of climbing plants (hydrangea, pyracantha, ivy, rambling rose, jasmine, etc), all down their side of the fence, which came over the top and came over into my garden, which I didn't mind because I just incorporated it into my garden. It also provided some screening / privacy between each of us. Unfortunately, they moved out and new lady moved in and she has completely decimated EVERYTHING in her garden including removing all the climbing plants on the fence so all I have now is a complete blank fence. To add insult to injury, when she removed the plants, she chopped the climbers off at the top of the fence so everything that was growing on my side just fell I to a heap on my side of the fence and squashed all my plants growing there. She didn't come around to ask if she could take it away and just left it to me to clear up. Took two weekends to clear it and take it to green recycling in my car (my petrol). Somebody said I should have thrown in back over but I'm not one for conflict and as a new neighbour I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt she would evenaturally pop around and apologise. She never did.
I spotted her the other weekend taking pruning shears to another neighbours ivy climbing over the other neighbours garage, with the only offence seemingly that because the garage runs along her garden she thinks she has a right to chop the ivy back.
Tim - she can't cut back anything that's not on her own property. She can cut anything overhanging it but she certainly can't reach in to a neighbouring garden to remove it. If you get together with the neighbour with the ivy and go round and have a friendly chat with her, that might help. Explain about wildlife, birds nesting etc and perhaps she'll see things differently. I understand how infuriating it is - sometimes people have no idea of the effect on others - but unfortunately the planting along the back of your garden isn't yours so there's nothing you can do about that bit. Maybe you can see it as a chance to plant some climbers that you like along the your side to replace what's been taken away.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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my neighbours fence is covered on ivy
comes through from their side.. i leave it for bees and buttterflies etc.. and look green all year
I grow a Hydrangea petiolaris up my six foot fence without any problems. I trim it off at the top. The blackbirds love to nest in it. The fence does belong to me though. You could always plant small trees and bushes to make an attractive screen.
thankyou all for your replys the clemitis has not opened its bud yet so will put a pic up when it dose
Hydranga Petiolaris is lovely once it gets going, but it can be a bit slow. It enjoys a north-facing aspect, but ours is not evergreen, is that unusual?
Gardenfanatic, perhaps I'm odd, but I wouldn't let an ivy plant get that out of control, especially if it wasn't mine. And those ash trees seem to be too near the fence in the background.
There is a historic wall at the end of my garden where we have grown a number of plants over the last 15 years. The land has recently been bought by a developer and he wants to knock the wall down and rebuild.
Is there anything I can do to prevent this
If the wall is on his land and it's his wall, I guess not. Have you talked to him about it? seems strange that he wants to rebuild it - I wonder if it's damaged?
I have had a Hydrangea Petiolaris growing on a south facing fence it's been there for around 10 years now and it is true that blackbirds love to nest in it as we had a nest this time last year. I took a layered cutting from it about 5 years ago and after growing it in a pot for a couple of years I have planted it behind my garage facing north, it has been there for 3 years and it looks like it is growing well. Good valued plant.
Not a lot unfortunately. A new neighbour recently moved in to the house (and garden) that runs along my back fence. The previous owners planted all sorts of climbing plants (hydrangea, pyracantha, ivy, rambling rose, jasmine, etc), all down their side of the fence, which came over the top and came over into my garden, which I didn't mind because I just incorporated it into my garden. It also provided some screening / privacy between each of us. Unfortunately, they moved out and new lady moved in and she has completely decimated EVERYTHING in her garden including removing all the climbing plants on the fence so all I have now is a complete blank fence. To add insult to injury, when she removed the plants, she chopped the climbers off at the top of the fence so everything that was growing on my side just fell I to a heap on my side of the fence and squashed all my plants growing there. She didn't come around to ask if she could take it away and just left it to me to clear up. Took two weekends to clear it and take it to green recycling in my car (my petrol). Somebody said I should have thrown in back over but I'm not one for conflict and as a new neighbour I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt she would evenaturally pop around and apologise. She never did.
I spotted her the other weekend taking pruning shears to another neighbours ivy climbing over the other neighbours garage, with the only offence seemingly that because the garage runs along her garden she thinks she has a right to chop the ivy back.
That last post was directed to Amelia3. Tried to quote your post but didn't work.
Tim - she can't cut back anything that's not on her own property. She can cut anything overhanging it but she certainly can't reach in to a neighbouring garden to remove it. If you get together with the neighbour with the ivy and go round and have a friendly chat with her, that might help. Explain about wildlife, birds nesting etc and perhaps she'll see things differently. I understand how infuriating it is - sometimes people have no idea of the effect on others - but unfortunately the planting along the back of your garden isn't yours so there's nothing you can do about that bit. Maybe you can see it as a chance to plant some climbers that you like along the your side to replace what's been taken away.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...