Bamboo or willow screening & trampoline....

aliasojo

We have this big octagonal trampoline. As you can see, the safety net supports are outside the net.




The garden is being overhauled and we're having to resite the trampoline in a slightly more open area. For personal reasons, I need the trampoline to be screened off in some way to make it less visible and a little more private.

Originally I was going to stick in a couple of fence posts at one side of it and have a 'leg' coming off from the main fence. (Imagine the top part of the letter T being the main fence and the leg being the new part added to screen the trampoline) but I'm still mulling that over.

I then wondered if I could get a 4m long x 2 m high roll of willow or bamboo screening and cable tie it to the safety net supports of the trampoline. That way, the trampoline would be screened off with a lot less work.

Thoughts?

gabyjane

Hi we bought some willow from wilkinsons..very nice and not that see through but quite thin..maybe the bamboo will be better for what you want. I would imagine it would need some kind of support as it does move around quite a bit as not overly strong. the T bit off the fence sounds good if you need to enclose it. Ours was about 5 foot high from what i remember and easy to cut down as used some last weekend to shut the back of the shed off.
Good luck

sunshinetours

Would make the trampoline very claustraphobic when using it I would imagine , unless you cover just one side if you just need to shield from view from one angle?

Fence presumably would need to be very high to actually shield the trampoline as they are 8 foot plus tall with the enclosure. Difficult to visualise really without knwoing why you need to do it or what you are actually trying to achieve (appreciate you don't want to say)

What about a trampoline tent?!

aliasojo

Lol, we have a tent for it too but you can't use that and the net at the same time and you also can't jump with it on.

The trampoline and the net wont be fully shielded no matter what I use, as you rightly say, it's around 250cms high and the fence is 180cms high. The screening I was thinking of is 200cms high so that would leave around 50cms of net showing and that's ok.

It is really only one angle I was needing to shield it from but I thought it would look daft with just one side screened, so I was thinking of tying the screening round the trampoline in a horse shoe shape and leaving the front open.

The other alternative is to fix the screening to the existing fence behind the trampoline and try to stake the sides somehow. That would mean it wouldn't be tied to the actual trampoline and would be a few inches away from it. It would just be easier if I could tie it to the trampoline net frame but I'm not sure if it would work in practice.

becs

I saw a program on tv where someone gad a trampoline and they had sunk it into the garden so it was level with the lawn. A lot of work but it looked fantastic!

andrew-b

Rather than using bamboo/willow screening how about actually buying bamboo plants or some other quick growing hedging plant (leyandii?). Or something like honeysuckle, jasmine, clematis trained up a trellis panel or maybe metal angle iron posts with wire strung between to train the plants upwards. Or if you want something more instant you could just adapt the angle iron and wire idea as something to attach the bamboo/willow screening to until the plants become established.

aliasojo

Nowhere to grow plants andrew, trampoline is on slabs.

Been and bought the willow now anyway so will give that a go first.

andrew-b

You could still grow plants in pots? Or a few garden sleepers on top of the paving and some bags of topsoil to create a raised flowerbed. Considering bamboo/willow screening myself to block off the side of shed from the hound and to block nosey neighbour popping his head over fence!

aliasojo

I only have about 6 inches of space at the side of the trampoline so just don't have room for anything other than a bit of fence or a screen. When I said 'open' area in the OP, I might have been more accurate saying 'visible'. Our garden is really quite small. I'm longing for the day when the trampoline gets to go to trampoline heaven. I suspect that wont be for some time to come though.