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Help needed in choosing plants please

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  Posted by warwickshirelass (U3701046) on Thursday, 6th April 2006

  Hi all,
  
  I'm a new member. Didn't even know you existed! I've been a gardener for years, but the present quandry I find myself in requires a bit of advice I feel.
  
  In an effort to gain some privacy from my neighbours I erected a trellis and screened off a patio area. I'm looking forward to planting it up but am concerned to get it right from the beginning, so I would appreciate the advice of other gardeners. Don't get me wrong I do get on with my neighbours and have other areas of my garden that we can freely see and speak to each other from. But I would like an area that I can escape to if I don't want to see anyone (as you do from time to time).
  
  My garden is completely south facing. The trellis has been erected North to South (the neighbour I want to screen off is to the East of my property and the upper windows look directly into my garden).
  
  The trellis is 30 feet long and I am looking for plants/trees/shrubs that will not be so rampant that I can't keep up with them but dense enough to give me the privacy I am looking for. I also want it to look pretty. Any ideas please? I can plant on both sides of the trellis.
  
  

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  Posted by Berghill (U2333373) on Thursday, 6th April 2006

  Dodging the issue a bit, but there is a lovely book called Creative Planting with Climbers by Jane Taylor ISBN 0 7063 7015 5. This has some fantastic suggestions and planting schemes for just such an opportunity as you have there.

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  Posted by warwickshirelass (U3701046) on Thursday, 6th April 2006

  Thank you for that. I am just about to go into town anyway so I will order the book. Sounds just what I need for climbers.
  
  Would like to hear what others recommend in the way of trees and shrubs too though.
  
  

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  Posted by Plocket (U684859) on Thursday, 6th April 2006

  For shrubs up against a fence or trellis I like Japanese Quince. You get gorgeous flowers in spring but they aren't evergreen. And with lots of sun you could probably get away with planting an evergreen clematis too.

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  Posted by Berghill (U2333373) on Thursday, 6th April 2006

  Don't buy it, go to the library first!

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