Ha, I was assuming with such a grand house, you must be loaded ?
My company's doing a similar property in Bath. They're having terraces, retaining walls, steps, pleached limes - and a swimming pool. Some people apparently have very deep pockets!
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Not grand at all. We just have a bit of the house but most of the garden! That sounds fab (minus the swimming pool - no use to me in Scotland!) Maybe one day!
You do almost have a top tier of a [very nice] terrace, if you could find a way to extend that then I think you'd have all the privacy you could hope for. It may be unrealistic, though, to dig that out by hand, or at least make it so your garden doesn't slide down the hill when it rains!
I wouldn't plant anything in "the way" if you are going to terrace it one day, the obvious thing to do would be plant a hedge along the bottom of that top tier but that might make extending your terrace a much harder job. It may also keep you out of the middle part of your garden, which would be a shame.
Looking at your photo it would seem that the road along the bottom is the most likely source of intrusion, perhaps a tall hedgerow along the front of the garden would solve it?
Yes we have planted a mixed hedge at the bottom last winter but still very small. Tiering will be far into future as will need to call in the experts and cant see us having the spare cash for that any time soon. Hedge once established will provide some privacy but I would like to break the garden up a bit more as find it bland and boring at the moment. Husband in process of making a iron archway at the moment that i intend to put at the top of the path to break up the space and put it some height.
East coast by the Tay. Have lovely beech tree at the bottom which will soon obscure most of the view! We get six month of good views and 6 of the beech!
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Thank you, we have worked hard on it but so much more to do! Off on holiday this week so will get stuck in
Ha, I was assuming with such a grand house, you must be loaded ?
My company's doing a similar property in Bath. They're having terraces, retaining walls, steps, pleached limes - and a swimming pool. Some people apparently have very deep pockets!
Not grand at all. We just have a bit of the house but most of the garden! That sounds fab (minus the swimming pool - no use to me in Scotland!) Maybe one day!
You do almost have a top tier of a [very nice] terrace, if you could find a way to extend that then I think you'd have all the privacy you could hope for. It may be unrealistic, though, to dig that out by hand, or at least make it so your garden doesn't slide down the hill when it rains!
I wouldn't plant anything in "the way" if you are going to terrace it one day, the obvious thing to do would be plant a hedge along the bottom of that top tier but that might make extending your terrace a much harder job. It may also keep you out of the middle part of your garden, which would be a shame.
Looking at your photo it would seem that the road along the bottom is the most likely source of intrusion, perhaps a tall hedgerow along the front of the garden would solve it?
ddsscott - I was sure it was a Scottish view. West coast?
Yes we have planted a mixed hedge at the bottom last winter but still very small. Tiering will be far into future as will need to call in the experts and cant see us having the spare cash for that any time soon. Hedge once established will provide some privacy but I would like to break the garden up a bit more as find it bland and boring at the moment. Husband in process of making a iron archway at the moment that i intend to put at the top of the path to break up the space and put it some height.
East coast by the Tay. Have lovely beech tree at the bottom which will soon obscure most of the view! We get six month of good views and 6 of the beech!