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We have a gap in our boundary where our neighbour has removed some dead branches & ivy that made a screen between our gardens.
I'm looking for ideas to make a new screen. The problem is that on our side the land rises quite steeply, so any screen on the boundary line would have to be quite high. Alternatively we could maybe hang something from a tree branch.
I have tried planting some shrubs on the high ground but they are having difficulties thriving because this area is under large beech trees.

Any ideas?

My first reaction was that the new hole might be big enough for rabbits to invade.

I'm afraid I have rabbits on my mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM5Gwzk3Vfc

We have lots of wildlife! There is a fence & low hedge nrighbour's side - but standing in our garden about 2m from the boundary, our feet are almost level with the top of the fence!

I don't think you ever told us what you decided for the other space in the garden you asked about here: F19585?thread=8316507

Where are the two parts in relation to each other? Could you do something matching?

Jerusalem Artichokes might make a suitable quick and temporary screen if it isn't too late this year.

I know bgr all about gardening.

I'd like a screen to put between my house and garden so I didn't have to look at my garden.

PP.

I have four large pots of Jerusalem Artichokes. They grow like crazy and get very high quickly. But they should have been planted in April to form a large enough hedge. And once the growing season is over, they'll need to be cut back to the ground.

Would they survive under trees? Ground is covered in ivy, but not impossible to clear small pockets to put stuff in.

Our current thinking is to transfer some virginia creeper from elsewhere in the garden & put some support in for it to grow up. Although our neighbour may not care for that spreading....

The other problem is that everything tends to grow in his direction because that's where the light comes from.

My earlier query area is nearby but not that close. That's still being cleared (weather permitting). Will probably be a bit of bark path joining two areas, with a feature such as http://www.gardenartandsculpture.co.uk/portfolio-items/silhouetted-cow-parsley-garden-sculptures/

The cow parsley looks good, it does however remind me of old metal tractor seats, perhaps a visit to the salvage yard might be interesting

A line of bamboo.


It grows incredibly quickly* and tall. The drawback is it will try to take over the neighborhood.




*So quickly it was used as a torture method by the Japanese in WWII.

If you don't mind being filmed, you could always apply to hand the project over to experts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/takepart/garden_rescue

But what is the experts' track record?

I wonder how much say the owners really have in it all....

Last time we had someone in to do a bit of clearing, we didn't mark sufficiently well where he was to stop. Took out a bit more than we wanted, which presented different problems.

I hope there's no Japanese Knotweed to worry about. I gather that a lot of people worry about that.

Pretty sure we haven't got that. I'm good at killing things off - my sister-in-law gave me some Indian balsam seeds. You'll never get rid of it, she said, but I thought it was pretty & would fill up some bare spots.
Came up half heartedly the first year & never seen again.

The experts' track record? The Rich brothers won a Chelsea gold medal in 2015, which is pretty much gardening royalty. They come up with a design and so does Charlie Dimmock and the home owner chooses the one they like best. The home owner comes up with the budget.

So, no freebies?

Not officially