Increasing garden privacy - trellis/ climbers/ trees or what?

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What's the best way to increase privacy along a boundary, as rapidly as possible? Next door neighbours' children have a trampoline and bounce and call over the fence most days to our annoyance. They also climb their trees and look over, calling out to us in our garden.

What have other people used to increase the height of the garden boundary? We've got a fence that needs replacing anyway but I think you can only have a 2 metre height including trellis? Is that right? Does it make a difference if the fence adjoins a grassy lane between the gardens, which ours does - thus meaning that the two gardens are separated by the lane - although the next door children can still easily see over into ours?

There are some shrubs and climbers already in our garden that block part of the view but large gaps along the fence line too.

How rapidly might a honeysuckle, for example, grow and spread across a 2 metre high fence or should we grit out teeth and go for some trellis/ arbour affair in our garden to effect instant improvement in privacy? Also, what about planting a mature tree in our garden? Would that be an idea too?

I don't want to annoy our neighbours nor encounter them about their children. I just want to - quietly and rapidly - provide my family with as much privacy as possible in our garden.

Are there any other clever and effective but sensitive ways of doing this (obviously not going to plant leylandii or anything like that )?

Bumping my own thread and wondering how other people achive what I need in their gardens, please

Personally, I would consider Leylandii. They grow fast and you can keep them at a manageble height by trimming regularly. They have a bad name because of irresponsible owners, but they are great for making a boundary private, both for people looking in and noise.
You can grow them to just above the height of the kids on the trampoline....problem solved.

Thanks bananalover. I don't think we really have room at the boundary for a leylandii as we just have these gaps to plug which are wider at the top than the bottom IYSWIM?

Has anyone else got any ideas? As a v temporary thing, does anyone know of anything that you can erect like a tall screen on poles or something - that might look a bit like a sunshade or the top part of a gazebo?

Would some form of willow screening work?

Before we moved to our present home we had a garden which was adjoined and we erected willow screening along the top of the boundary fences for privacy.

It had to be put on a frame first, very simple, dh managed this and he's not generally very handy.Neighbours were fine about it too, which is important.

I also grew honeysuckle up the fence and jasmine...I think, oh, and clematis.

The honeysuckle grew fairly rapidly, the jasmine less so and the clematis took ages to get going.

Hi TnOg, do you mean that the willow screening was higher than the 2 metre fence limit or within that limit? I'd like to have instant screening but we need more height than the 2 metre limit. Honeysuckle sounds good but probably would take 1 to 2 yrs to geow high enough do you think - or might it be quicker?

Can you describe more clearly what willow screening looks like or refer me to a website/ images?

Many thanks.