plants to screen from neighbouring garden
cmiduffin
6 years ago
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HELP ! New neighbours taken our privacy
Comments (18)I do feel for you, a similar thing has happened where I live. Two storey flats overlooking pensioners bungalows. Privacy has gone and light is reduced. Complaints were put in, a petition was put in but 42 flats brings in a lot of revenue for the local council. The value of our property has dropped as a result of this - I paid a premium to buy the place as we were not overlooked at all previously. It is heart breaking and soul destroying, one of the neighbours succumbed to the depression and has now been taken into care. A chap moved into the upper flat across the road from me and as the flats are so close I can see he has a mole the size of a new penny on his left shoulder!! Scuze me for passing on this rather personal information - that is how close the flats are and the lack of privacy on both sides. I do not want to move and lose money, am too old to be doing with the upheaval anyway. These are sad times we live in....See MoreGarden screen - willow, bamboo or reed?
Comments (5)All of the screening types you mentioned can have quite a limited life span. Willow often only lasts 2 to 3 years before it is too brittle and beaks into small pieces. Bamboo will last longer and costs less than Willow. I would say it that it looks a bit foreign in an English Garden though. I don't have any doubt that the best value for money would be the Reeded Screen. How long it will last will depend on how much sun it gets but it is the lowest cost of these options if you compare the same sized panels. It's also the easiest to install with some wire ties. There is a company called Primrose which I believe is on Houzz and otherwise will be easily found on the internet https://www.primrose.co.uk/...See MoreGarden Screening Dilemma
Comments (3)I don’t blame you wanting to screen and I like pleached trees. In your case I’d have the trees much closer to the house where they define a space maybe a dining space. The advantage of this is you will need fewer trees and then you can buy ones that are already as big as you want them to be and have immediate effect. And they can be part of a proper design and more of a feature. If you place them strategically you can obscure the view from the living areas you use most. You could still plant a hedge on that boundary and if you do you could plant hornbeam or beech (red perhaps) both of which are technically deciduous so will give seasonal interest and let more light through in winter so be fairer on neighbours when they get high. Tbh though I’d plant a hedge with at least room for a path between hedge and boundary and remove the lower branches as it gets bigger. That would give a feeling of extra depth to the garden. So lots of different ways to tackle it....See Moregarden screening dilemma
Comments (8)The tree in the second pic on the right is a Silver Birch isn’t it? Shame to cut it down. The place I think a tree should go to create screening is where the fern (tree fern?) is. A small tree in that area would soon do the job. My favourite small trees are Crab Apples (Malus), Hawthorn (Catageus), Cersi, Amelanchier and Cornus kousa. You could pollard the exisiting trees, that is cut back all the branches back to the stem and they will regrow, although I’ve never tried it.. They do grow back pretty big though. You could also remove the lower branches to tidy it up. I’ve tried to upload some photos but having problems again with Houzz....See Morecmiduffin
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