Tall plants that are easy to grow for privacy in front garden.

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My next door is a student house and their fence is broken. There's no chance of the landlord fixing it, as I've tried to phone the letting agents, but they don't want to know, and told me how I didn't know it was my fence .

Would anyone know any easy plants/flowers that grow tall so I can have privacy from that side and that will look nice too? Any kind of flowering bush that's easy to tend to will be good too. Also, anything that grows in this type of flowering pot will be better, as then my kids won't be tempted to walk across ever again and I won't have to dig anything.

Thanks!

Bamboo or laurels should work well in pots.

I've just had my neighbour's massive overgrown laurel tree/bush chopped back from my garden today! Not a big fan of it right at this moment

bamboo looks nice, is it easy to maintain? are there any types of tall flowering plants that stay all year around? Like a country garden feel. Does lavender grow in pots well?

I've got summer Jasmine in a big pot with a bit of a support so that it goes up not just out - it's got lovely scented flowers on at the moment.

Pyracantha, good strong grower, evergreen, berries and thorns. Dead easy to look after and reasonably priced.

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Tall flowering plants with a cottage garden feel include buddleia, camellia (needs ericaceous soil), spiraea, roses. Most of those would need deeper soil than the container in your picture, but the buddleia would probably manage ok. It isn't evergreen, the leaves will drop off in winter, but the stems and structure would still be there.

how about buddleia globosa? if you grow it in a pot it won't get as big as the website says and it will stay under control quite well.

Other tall cottagey things you could grow in that container include stipa gigantea, hollyhocks, perovskia, verbena bonariensis, foxgloves, verbascum, eryngium, sunflowers, japanese anemones.

NB make sure your pot has holes in the bottom for drainage or else everything will die.

I was coming to suggest budleia as well. absolute thugs though...
or put a frame up and grow honeysuckle and/or clematis?

That trough is too shallow for tall plants, it's fine for heathers and summer flowering annuals but apart from the fact that anything that has the potential to grow tall will need a lot more moisture and a bigger root run than the trough can provide, it doesn't allow stability for any tall plants.

I'm afraid that if you want to grow plants that will establish well enough to create a barrier, you will need to dig to plant them in the ground.

A hedge seems to be the solution here, and bamboo is an option too, but neither will prevent your children walking through unless you also erect some kind of trellis or secondary fencing as well.

Why not repair the fence, what would it cost? You could perhaps grow hops on the very fence itself? Or ivy? Or woodbine? Or clematis? Or honeysuckle? Or all of them in a well thought-out mix?

Camellia is quite good for decorative hedging. Glossy evergreen leaves and flowers late winter. It can be grown in a pot with ericaceous soil but you would want a decent sized pot if you want it to grow large.

Lavender loves to grow in pots and some grow fairly large but it is in its prime in summer and should be cut back in September (just as your new batch of students move in)

Bamboo is an effective screen but I would be very cautious of putting it in the ground. It can be very difficult to get rid of once established. But could grow it in your container if you like it.

Mexican Orange blossom is a lovely plant. Glossy, evergreen leaves and very fragrant little flowers all summer. Very low maintenance. I would put it in the ground rather than a container though.

Certain roses grow well as hedging...

Check to your deeds that it is the next door owner's fence and get them to fix it rather than building your own.

But Helianthus Lemon Queen grows extremely tall by late summer, its flowers are very pretty and bees love it. You would need to plant in the ground though as though its roots are shallow it would get top heavy and topple over.

Elder makes a quick hedge and can be heavily pruned.

Pyracantha. Grows big, very prickly, evergreen, nice flowers, stunning berries, so great for the birds and the bees.

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