Idea to cover this high eyesore please?

[Peachy]

We are trying to finish the garden off, its compact but matureshrubs / treesetcwith lots of promise.

The neighbour put p a fence last year and under the panels on urside isa charming notice to threaten uswith legalaction ifany plant fron our garden touchesit (shehad a rowwith our landlady, but she meansthe ivy whichwas here long before us- here for 100 years that we know of).

Anyway we didtink freestanding tellis planter but not safeas boyswill tip; can't fixanything to fence, itssixfoot higfh aswell

Ideas please? atm with it on thefence its justa permanent eyesore and stressor; you wat to relax but get the feeling she'swatching you iyswim.

[MarmadukeScarlet]

I would ask CAB about the legalities of her attempting to stop any plants touching 'your side' of 'her' fence.

She sounds bonkers

[MarmadukeScarlet]

Or you could run trellis panels just inside 'her' fence, supported on fence posts and grow what the feck you like on it

[Peachy]

I did wonderabout trellis, she said no before the fall outas would make her fence rot if it was close- ??

BUT the rowwas thatshewanted to buy the entire garden and wasrefused, soshewants tostop us enkjoying it iyswim

I didwonder if thesign was Ok; landladywould get legaladvice (hates her) but don'twant barristers invllved like last time >

[Pannacotta]

Am pretty sure she has no right to tell you what you can and can't grow on your side of the fence, the boundary is in your garden and you can grow what you like in your own garden.
If you dont want to put in climbers then how about tall freestanding evergreen shrubs/wall shrubs?
Garrya, bamboo, Ceanothus, Eleagnus, Viburnum Tinus, Holly, Laurel etc

[Peachy]

We have holly and I wouldn't use any mroe as that spot in close to the swing atrea (LOL- could you imagine? ) but a shrub in a planter might be the ideal way forwards- it wuld have to be high though.

She would try and tell us what to do- she was complaining that I was out rpruining yesterday as she would like her garden to herself- oh so why did you buy a terraced house then?

But I dont want to just whicge I rarely see her just this sign

there's a spare fence panel left from her building on our side, might move that across and start climbers on that. I'm trying to make it partly a sensory garden for ds3 as he loves the one in his special needs school, so could go for something scented couldn't I? Hmmmmmmm

[MinkyBorage]

Would she actually notice if you took the sign down, if it's on your side of the fence?
Also, it may be that the fence on that side of her garden is her responsibility to replace/maintain etc, but it doesn't mean that it is her fence, afaik you would still be able to plant what you like on your side, unless I've muissed something.

[Peachy]

She actually ahd it fixed permanently behind horrible perspex,removal not an option sadly.

[MinkyBorage]

what a hideous old bag! Could you paint over it?

[MinkyBorage]

or hang a lovely mirror over it?

[purepurple]

cheeky cow
I don't think she has any legal right over your side of the fence. It will be a boundary fence and you can grow what you want.
As for the sign, plant a big bush in front of it.
Or rip it off, she has no legal right to put anything on your side, tit for tat.

Or the other option is to put up a fence on your side and then you can plant what you like

[QuintessentialShadow]

Why dont you post this in legal? She has no right to tell you what you can or cannot do in your own garden.

[SoupDragon]

Paint over the sign. Grow whatever you like.

[SoupDragon]

Put a tall post in your garden. On the top of this, facing her garden, put a sign that says "F*ck off you interfering old cow". It may not improve relations but it may make you feel better

[BoffinMum]

Go to war. Threaten to plant a Leyland Cypressus hedge. No, seriously, ignore her and grow what you like. No lawyer is going to take her seriously.

Our stoopid neighbour (a well known illustrator of a series of children's books involving a mouse in the form of a dancer of some kind - so sorry, her name escapes me strangely enough - my memory is terrible these days) put posts along our side with 'boundry line' painted all down it. I am not sure what annoyed me most, the pettiness or the fact she had spelled it wrongly.

[pigleto]

I don't think you should do anything to wind her up. It is horrible having neighbour disputes. I have a lovely planter with a sort of bamboo arch/obelisk thing in it which is about six feet high, it didn't cost a lot. You could grow clematis or get the kids to plant runner beans.

Give the woman next door a bunch of flowers to sweeten her up a bit, she sounds miserable.

[BoffinMum]

pigleto, IME nothing works with these miseryguts people.

[purepurple]

I had a neighbour exactly like this a long time ago

he was a miserable old scrote who hated children

but when we moved out, I got him back by sending off for lots of adult mags from the back of the sunday paper, in his name to be sent to his house

such a sense of satisfaction imagining the conversation he must have had with his wife

[MinkyBorage]

OMG I HATE HATE HATE ANGLINA BALLRINA!!!!!

[BoffinMum]

Now Minky, I never named anyone or any book. As I say, my memory is so terrible these days.

[MinkyBorage]

of course not, just a completely unrelated statement! lol that she spelt it wrong! those books are so twee and anally retentive, I'm really not surprised by her ocd 'boundry line'. Was it painted in sicky pink?

[BoffinMum]

Might as well have been.

It's actually our responsibility to pay for a fence in that bit of the garden, according to the paperwork, but I wasn't going to bloody tell her she had spent north of a grand for nothing, anyway.

[Peachy]

Ah no flowers- last time ds1 (SN) amde her a card, Christmas 2007, she ripped it up and put it back through teh door . I do feelsorry forher through, she does seem miserable.

In order to remove I'd have to disassembel the fence as each panel has a large semi circle of eprspex on it, no idea why but there you go. And frankly when I do get to use the garden I don't want her ruining it. So covering is the best way forwards

Runner beans sounds excellent idea..... am going to suggest that to DH, kids already have sunflower / pumpkin seedlings growing, they'll love it. How much sun do they need (shoud ask Mum really, ultimate grow your own Queen but easier on here if it fails LOL )

[mistlethrush]

Peachy, the children would also find nasturtiums good and those would go up (if you got a climbing variety) like runner beans...

I think I would errect a tall pole in front of the sign and grow a clematis armandii up it - evergreen and quite vigorous...

[BoffinMum]

Russian vine is also good - called a Mile a Minute and used to clad unsightly things.

My goodness, she is a very bitter and unhappy woman, to be bothering to rip up cards. What on earth has happened to her in life to make her so hurtful?? To rip up a small child's card like that.

[Pannacotta]

You coudl put some nice willow screens close to the fence and grow loads of lovely climbers on them?
Some smart ones on here
www.potentialonline.co.uk/shop/index.php/page,shop.browse/category,Willow+Screens