Garden overlooked

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We are looking to move and have seen a lovely house which is great inside.

The only problem is that the house is badly overlooked at the back by a row of houses - there are six in the row like this

The garden fence of the house is like this

The house did sell a couple of months ago but that has fallen through. The estate agent says it is because the buyer couldn't get a mortgage together.

There is tree at the back and but I wondered if there was anything else you could do to screen the garden for privacy without being a total anti-social neighbour.

Sorry - that should be the row of houses are like this

They are small so it is overlooked by a lot of houses.

Bad idea?

That can be cured fairly easily but if you want it to be straight away it will cost a bit (think £1-2K). You could plant some pleached hornbeams along the back which would completely block out the windows above the fence.

I can't see what the existing fence is like, but a cheaper option might be to put trellis along the top, and then grow clematis and honeysuckle over it.

We have an overlooking problem - just 2 windows but right in front of us and have gone for a few small trees and a mixture of laurels, forsythia and photinia to make an interesting screen. We have a lot more privacy in the garden even after a few years of growth. Depending on how much of a distance you have, the trellis idea is also a good one - a clematis montana would cover it in a few seasons.

As of 2pm today we have an overlooking neighbour. He chopped down his tree that nicely separated our conservatories . As ours is further into the garden he can now see into said conservatory (with all the drying female underwear) and into the kitchen.
We can see into his kitchen.
Humph

You have my sympathies harbinger - it's not nice when your privacy is taken away I hated being able to see into my neighbours house but soon learnt not to look when I saw him having his back waxed in the kitchen

How about planting a bamboo screen?

No, got bamboo on the otherside, already sending spurs/shoot into the middle.

PS as he trampled my strawberrys/runners, do I replant? Or is it too late in the season. The ones that have got roots,if I put the in 3" pots,will they winter?