Garden eyesore.. photo attached (when it uploads)

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Relatively lighthearted as I probably won’t say anything but… sitting here with a cup of tea staring at it.

YABU - it’s fine
YANBU - annoying

Those trellis look atrocious till the plants grow
be fully screened and private when there covered
will they block the sun it will be the same as having a 10ft hedge

The fence is hideous. The pleached hedge will be lovely when it grows in.

Why not grow some hedging to disguise the very ugly fence?

The frames for the trees are fairly temporary but normally used when planting trees. They’ll probably be removed by next year? They’ll provide much needed privacy for you both in time.

Came on expecting to see a rusting backhoe in the garden or at least a tatty shed. :(

I'd be thrilled! Much better than brick and windows, and I didn't have to pay for them.

Why does the trellis have to be so tall though. Yeah, it's pretty ugly

They'll look lovely once they're established.
Personally I think it's the best screening you can get, unless you like looking at a plain fence, that is.

New build gardens are horrid. Get some plants in there OP and it will look loads better.

They’ll look great in future. I’m thinking maybe they should have put 5 up.

Agreed!

They usually have plants growing up them / in front of them.

I've had a glass of wine and got stuck down the rabbit hole that is MN and there have been some 'interesting' threads today.

I genuinely thought the eye sore referred to your bare fench and that you were looking for advice on what to do with it (planting something - pleached trees perhaps?).

Until I read the responses and realise you were referring to your neighbours' pleached trees. Sorry but they look better than your fence already and will look fantastic when they mature.

I think you should plant something nice in front of the fence

I didn’t know what you were referring to

I'd be thankful for the free privacy. They'll soon fill out and you won't see the frames.

I would genuinely bloody love my neighbours to suddenly erect these "eyesores".

Instead they seem insistent on tearing down anything providing even a modicum of privacy so that I can stare, unencumbered, into their house.

Seriously? It's the only thing making your own garden (from the photo at least!) look pretty!

They will be lovely when they have grown. You will have decent screening so you won’t see into each others gardens, what’s not to like.

I’d be just happy to have a garden to be honest

No offence intended but you are obviously not a gardener, or you are into gardening minimalism! Tbh if I had put up espaliered trees on the border, or any tree on the border I would have discussed it with my neighbour. I can’t tell what the trees are. Red Robin maybe, maybe laurel?….but you are probably going to have to prune and tidy your side, that’s what makes you not unreasonable. You also need some reassurance as to the height of the hedging. Seriously, unless you are the neighbours from hell who they are desperate to block out, I think they should have mentioned it and discussed maintenance of it.

I penned this to inspire you OP:-

The Fence and the Trees
A fence once stood in a quiet field,
Of weathered wood and iron sealed,
It marked a line both firm and plain,
Yet bore no malice, bore no chain.
On either side, the tall trees grew,
With leaves of green and bark of hue,
They whispered low in morning breeze,
And danced in dusk with graceful ease.
The fence would watch through seasons’ span,
The laughter of the leaves began,
And though it split the earth below,
The roots ignored the line they know.
The oaks would lean with gentle grace,
And shade both sides in their embrace,
Their branches reached across the line—
A quiet pact, a soft design.
The fence would creak, the trees would sing,
Of boundary and blossoming,
One held the space, the other grew,
Each faithful to what they must do.
So here they stand—both wood and will—
In meadow wide and evening still,
A fence, some trees, a sky above,
A lesson drawn in quiet love

I thought it was gonna be a trampoline or a hideous children's pink play frame or the likes, not trees, in a garden. The horror!

I love MN

I’m LOLing at the amount of people that think the OP is referring to her own fence as the eyesore when in fact she is referring to the pleached trees which probably cost at least £300 each as the eyesore.

I wonder what kind of trees they are -can we have a close up of the leaves OP?
They might grow into full size trees which would be quite nice.
If yours is the sunny side of the fence and they are flowering trees you will get most of the flowers on your side which would be nice

Buy your own red robins and hide that fence!