overlooked garden
hi, I am planning to build a garden outbuilding at the rear of the garden, but am overlooked and would have to remove trees. Is there an alternative way i can have some screening on the rear fence?
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7 days agoAgree with @Ruth Stringer.
A corner building doesn’t encroach on the garden so much and would allow you to soften it with planting. Very pleased with ours and will be adding some planting in the near future
Carolina
7 days agoYou could take down the leylandii only, leave the other tree, and build something like this. You could perhaps put a smaller tree between that outbuilding and the house to prevent people from looking into your garden/house? Difficult to say without seeing the whole situation.
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yesterdayThe cost of a designer will depend on where you live and who you get unfortunately and how confident you are with planting will depend on the necessity. Where are you?
When we moved in I approached the local horticulture college and they sent a guy in his last year who really was great. He set up his company and 25 years later he’s still going strong. I got my ideas through discussions with him and he advised to use the trellis to obtain the necessary height and position idea and it really worked. He also pointed out that a distraction to the eye really serves just as well so sometimes you haven’t got to ‘block’.
It really depends on the length of your garden as the angle of the line of sight will decrease nearer your house so this will dictate whether you create a distraction through a tall single tree near to the outbuilding (I wouldn’t suggest a weeping type as the hanging branches will run against the felt on the roof), away from your outbuilding (bear in mind blocking the light too here) or plant a bed at the right point with tall shrubs, small trees and flowers.
I have attached a picture of one side of our house where our neighbours have a view straight into our garden. There was a prunus there which we took down as it blocked the sun in the evening. It was a heavy thick tree which hadn’t been maintained well enough over the years. Last year I planted this weeping pear (compliments an old willow we have in the garden). It won’t get high enough to block the light but it will (once grown up it provides dense foliage) obscure the view enough for me to feel comfortable.
Our garden is long and we have fields out the back so we have a low lush fence to enjoy the views. But there is also a lane which is used literally all day by walkers. I put in some rustic heavy duty tall trellis across the garden to divide the garden up to a veg garden at the lower by the lane and the top section to be our family lawn/plant garden. I have plants growing over the trellis and this obscures the view to the house.
I suppose I’m saying there is more than one way to get what you need without overkill but it all depends on the length of your garden and the distance of the neighbours window from the fence.
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