Garden privacy

8 years ago

Any ideas for privacy in a small garden from neighbours prying eyes, height, attached to an outhouse wall and with a small footprint?

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8 years ago

Living walls are getting ever more popular, trellises anchor bolted into the wall to support climbing plants, tall narrow plants such as several species of hebe for starters.

Really, it is difficult to offer clear ideas without a couple of photos taken from different spots to get a full picture, or a drawing at least roughly to scale.

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Kevin
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8 years ago
Thank you so much for your advice, pic attached, we want to make a seating area in the space by the outhouse.
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You need to add some tall but "light" planting along the borders, ie nothing to dense. A mix of evergreen and deciduous would be good and get come climbers over the fences to distract from all the boundaries. Increasing the depth of both side borders and adding layers of planting and interest in the garden would help. And I would think about breaking up the garden with a trellis or pergola running the width of the garden half the way along, or adding a pergola to your house terrace, as this will make it feel more enclosed. A parasol does the same job but only in the summer months.
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If you put trellis behind the whole length of the wall you won't need to worry about fitting it between the piers. The best thing is to fix batons to the wall (vertically to avoid water puddling on top) and then fix the trellis panels to those and butt them together. It's best to use the really sturdy trellis. That gives room for the plants to grow through and behind the trellis to get a good hold. You can use string or even zip ties to tie in the branches. There are some really long thorned pyracanthas which have lovely flowers and which stand up well to indiscriminate pruning and neglect.
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Kevin
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8 years ago
This area here!
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8 years ago
Have a look at our wall top metal trellis - long lasting (zinc galvanized steel) and British made. They could be used on either or both of your walls, ready for climbers to provide natural beauty and privacy.
We make wall top posts and posts that fix to the front side of the wall too. Good luck!
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8 years ago
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First a couple of pointers.

The ivy has to go unless you are going to use that to cover your trellis. If kept, it restricts your options to trellis only for the extra height you need.

There are height restrictions for walls and fences throughout the UK. They tend to have a maximum of either 2M or 1.8M, the latter being just about 6 feet in old money. There is no restriction on living materials and a trellis is not taken into account as it is not considered to be a permanent structure. Which a fence is.

Are you or your neighbour responsible for the upkeep of the fence? Regardless of what the planning authorities may declare, a wooden fence will not last permanently. That one looks as though it has been there for almost permanently and is unlikely to take the stress of further weight. The ivy, if allowed to grow any more, will do for it soon enough on its own.

Having sorted the ivy and the fence out you need to consider which way that corner is facing. What time was the picture taken? if, say, between 11am and 1pm and judging by the strength of sunlight coming over the corner of the roof it is roughly north facing. If that is correct then you need to select shade loving plants but some prefer a dry soil and others prefer damp or even wet soil. What is the drainage like in that corner of the garden?

You can combat the soil conditions by use of deep copntainers, troughs or a raised bed and keeping its contents in a suitable condition often harder to achieve in open ground.

So let's take the example of it being north facing and all that rubbble making the ground toomuch like hard work to make fertile. A raised bed, as deep as you like, with about 300-450mm width of soil and/or compost to be sufficient for a good root system, planted with something quick growing - not bamboo unless you completely contain its roots with an impermeable membrane - hebes, perhaps, or a variety of Prunus (laurel) could do the job. Or fix a trellis on top of the outhouse. Either a nice wooden one supported by fence posts which in turn would be anchor-bolted to the outhouse wall; or one of those metal things if you like them ;-) . Then you can train a good evergreen climber, again it must be shade tolerant or even shade loving, up the wall and onto the trellis.

If the corner faces any other direction the structural answers would be similar but with different plants.
Kevin
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8 years ago
Thank you so much I can tell you know what your doing as all your comments are spot on, North facing Garden, the fence panels are getting on a bit, the Ivy is from next door so I can cut it back that's about it. I need to look at your website later today!
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8 years ago
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Hi Kevin, kind of you to make such positive comments, thank you.

Our website is aimed at the commercial sector. They need the legal info and the H&S assurances rather than the hands-on proof of what we can do.

You'll get more of the info you're looking for here on houzz.co.uk in our Projects and Ideabooks.

Sadly, though, both our site and our profile here are a long time out of date and overdue a complete overhaul. Gardening, paving and fencing are too physically exhausting so such things get neglected for long periods. It's more fun and relaxing answering your questions here. Hopefully our new recruit (she starts next week) will help put that to rights, but it will take a little time.

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