Garden eyesore.. photo attached (when it uploads)

[Whitelotus5]

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

No they don’t - it takes about 5 years for the tree to be fully trained and then they come down. They are just bamboo and wouldn’t last much longer than that anyways.

@Whitelotus5 might be renting and not allowed to touch the garden, fencing of course.

The trees, mostly. The frame is just for training the tree to take a flat shape. Hopefully the trees themselves are properly supported, but probably at a lower level that you cannot see from this side of the fence.

This is what they’ll look like when established - lovely!

Great way of adding privacy and interest to a small new build garden.

My garden is small but overlooked & I’ve been considering pleached trees so that they don’t intrude into the garden at ground level. They’re really expensive & I need evergreens. Any suggestions? One side of my garden looks like the OP’s. I can’t kneel down to weed borders any more.

I imagine that the fence is actually yours and the neighbours have planted shrubs/trees on their garden but have included a trellis for support so as to not use your fence as support as such. If that is so then don’t get in a sweat because they’ve acknowledged your property and have taken a responsible attitude.

You could, of course, do something similar to enhance the appearance of your garden and thus hide the ugly fence.

We had a laburnum. It looked lovely when it was out but a mess the rest of the time. I shed no tears when it was cut down!

If you own your house I’d paint the fence it will be less of an eyesore. Stone seems quite popular shade. The trees in neighbouring garden will soon gown and look nice.

Laburnum is also pretty poisonous. I wouldn't plant it in a garden where children might be.

Your fence is the eyesore imo 😂
your neighbour obviously agrees!!!

😂😂😂

OP your garden is an eyesore, very council estate.
I had to look at your picture again as I thought you were talking about your fence, which is hideous. Have you considered investing in your own garden?

They’re much nicer than the bog standard garden centre trellis. Could you ask where they bought them? I’d really like a couple of those.

Put some plants along the edge of the fence and a few trellises on it and it won't look so bad once theyve grown. Maybe some nice lights hung on it too, or even painting it might make it look slightly less "newbuildy" if you don't have time to be gardening.

YABU

why would you choose a house with the gardens backing onto eachother like this if you value privacy?

ans also, this isn’t a problem at all. It looks like a trellis!!?!

All those saying... "grow something up your side of the fence or paint it, etc," need to be aware that you can only do that if you own the fence yourself.

If your neighbour owns the fence then you are not legally allowed to grow anything up it, attach anything to it, paint it or even lean something against it without the owner's permission. It is classed as criminal damage.

They’re not trellises. They’re frames for training pleached trees. I assume the neighbours want to block out the eyesore of you staring at their house.

I live on a council estate and I would lie down and roll across OP's lawn weeping tears of gratitude that a lawn was a lawn (albeit with a weird dead body shape!) and not the abandoned sofas/broken trampolines/overflowing bins jungle that I look at every day! 🤓

You can grow a hedge or tree or shrubs against it. You just can't attach things to it if it's not yours.

Yes, the frames stuck up in the air for the plants look hideous. Invest in some 3 m high shrubs or hedging to soften your fence and screen them out.

Thank you!!

I somehow missed the post that suggested going to openai.com.

I will give it a go tomorrow!! 🤣

Next daft question... why is it bad for the environment???

Budget I guess

The ugly things in this photo are the fence and the houses. The plants will look lovely once they’ve grown and will actually improve the view??? So yeah YABU.

I have a neighbour behind me who has a hedge their side and the flowers are absolutely beautiful. I look forward to seeing it bloom every year. When they prune their side, I do where they can't reach to help maintain it ready for next year. You will benefit in the long run 🙂

It was there when we moved in and to be honest I was more worried my cat would eat it! I was pleased to see the back of it

needs a good stain or paint