Gap in fence to fill

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Our neighbours have a large section ( 3m) of garden with no fence between us and them. They're elderly and like this, been like this fir a few years. Problem is its right by our patio abd they love to garden,whenever we go out in the nice weather I feel they're straight over chatting away. I like them we do talk, they've got family close so mot lonely, but sometimes I want to sit and enjoy a quiet coffee alone.!
I want to put some sort of screen up, dh thinks it's rude now, I'm thinking a grass screen but there's no fence to attach it to so I'm open to ideas! It's too big a space to fill with plants- would cost us a fortune!

Put your own fence up inside your boundary. We did this as we knew that it would be impossible to get our old neighbour to agree / contribute to a shared one on the actual boundary.

It's not an unreasonable thing to want a fence, but if you're worried you could always say you were thinking of getting a dog - they might not like the fence but they wouldn't like the thought of your hypothetical dog running around their garden either.

Yes you could put the fence up on your boundary.

We had no fence at all between ours and next door,he rents his house out so didn’t care!
After a couple of years of nagging I arranged the fence to go up on the proper boundary and we have paid half each.

have a chat with them and see what they say.

Trellis . It makes a boundary without being as looming as a fence. You can exchange the odd word through it , but it does discourage long conversations. You can grow a few plants up it as an excuse to them .

We did this to make a boundary between our neighbours’ and our windows and paths ( not that they were intrusive).

when I have got up I’ll take a pic of ours to show what I mean

@Allthegoodnamesarechosen tha k you I would live to see it, sounds like a good idea. I feel if we put a fence up it may offend them! We have chatted about a fence- there's blew down about 2 years ago, they pit a tiny bit of trellis up abd then left a gap until the bushes make a natural fence.