Climbers on fence

Davesnave

maloricsmam said:

I'd be careful with Jasmine and Honeysuckle on wooden fences, they're beautiful but invasive especially Jasmine, I've had both along 2 thirds of my 6ft high - 32ft long party fence with clematis (2 types) on rest of it, I recently asked a fencing guy out for an estimate as the 5 posts (on my side) have rotted at the base and need replacing (£150) then we noticed the cross rails joining the posts at 3 levels have rotted (and some of the fence boards) where the honeysuckle and jasmine were wound around the posts according to the fence they drain the moisture from the wood, it also happens with Ivy (which also damages brickwork) or any clinging plant but apparently clematis/roses don't cause that level of damage so I now have a whole fence to sort out which is probably going to be another £200 at least 

Yes, I shouldn't have used jasmine as an inferred example of a innocuous plant, but I'm attempting to grow half a dozen of them in large pots currently and not getting the growth I expected.

All choices have consequences and costs. I choose to have over 1/2 acre of lawns, so it follows that I need a ride-on to cope with them and that costs £ hundreds every year just to run, service and repair. 'You don't get owt fer nowt.' and big plants can give a lot of pleasure. Just make sure your neighbour's on the same page.

Farway

Davesnave said:

All choices have consequences and costs. I choose to have over 1/2 acre of lawns, so it follows that I need a ride-on to cope with them and that costs £ hundreds every year just to run, service and repair. 'You don't get owt fer nowt.' and big plants can give a lot of pleasure. Just make sure your neighbour's on the same page.

No but, yeah but, look at this and tell me you wouldn't mind at least ago on it fro grass cutting?   https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x9mkuPxHsK0/hqdefault.jpg

Davesnave

Farway said:

Davesnave said:

All choices have consequences and costs. I choose to have over 1/2 acre of lawns, so it follows that I need a ride-on to cope with them and that costs £ hundreds every year just to run, service and repair. 'You don't get owt fer nowt.' and big plants can give a lot of pleasure. Just make sure your neighbour's on the same page.

No but, yeah but, look at this and tell me you wouldn't mind at least ago on it fro grass cutting?   https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x9mkuPxHsK0/hqdefault.jpg

Hmm, I might even be able to get round the stream area with that, and fire the odd broadside at my troublesome neighbour at the other end of the paddock. Where do I get one?

thecatsm0ther

I would erect my own 6ft trellis close to your neighbours fence using thin posts then there will be no issues with regards to growing climbers on their fence. We've done this and it works well

twopenny

I agreed with my neighbour to have 4/5ft panels with a trellis on top so that we both got improved light on our plots but also had privacy. It looks really smart and garden like, also it's stronger against high winds as it allows wind through. Could be worth negotiating on that.

I'm slowly growing a ceanothus up that I can prune to give more or less privacy but some colour.

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I know this might be an unwelcome comment, but I would suggest that those intent on growing any ivy type climbing plant on a boundary fence between neighbouring properties think very seriously about it - then don't!

We have these hideous things growing from two of our neighbours' gardens on wooden fences. One has completely destroyed a small section, with the plant growing through joints and expanding to break the wood, coupled with the seemingly little known feature of plants that they grow towards the light - into our garden. This results on me doing more cutting and thinning on our neighbour's plant than he does.  I quite like gardening, but draw the line at regularly maintaining someone else's! 

Thankfully, in the other case, our neighbour has seen the destruction caused by the first case and will remove the one which is growing between us.  

On a general, ranting, note I do find myself getting annoyed with gardening programmes where it never even seems to cross the minds of the 'experts'  that planting trees or creepers in small domestic gardens might not be a brilliant idea and that the subject should perhaps be discussed first of all with the garden neighbours. 

Just a thought! 

WR