Climbing frame in a small garden - any tips on beautifying or naturalising it?

[BewareTheBeardedDragon]

My garden is small (9m widely 16m long) and slopes at the far end. It is fairly packed with raised beds, trampoline, compost bins, playhouse, washing line. Currently have a small lawn right behind the house and I'm considering putting a climbing frame for the dc on this lawn...

I have massively mixed feelings about this because I can see that they will love it and use is a lot, and it will be good for their physical and mental health. But I love my garden plants and looking out at greenery, and the frame will be right outside one of the main back windows (there's not really anywhere else it could practically go).

Has anyone managed to grow stuff over a climbing frame that could stand up to the proximity to boisterous play? Or is that just a ridiculous idea and I just have to suck it up? It'll be a wooden one, not a bright coloured plastic jobby, so there's that. 😬

Have you mature trees or posts you could attach a slack line ninja kit to? Might be useful as a temporary solution?

A Russian vine would stand up to being battered on a daily basis - they grow incredibly quick. But plants will attract insects including bees and wasps - with children climbing the apparatus, is this a good idea? (I’ve no kids so I would guess not😳)

What about something like this? Looks a little nicer than most. I wouldn't grown anything over it though - plants would likely get slippery when wet and it could be dangerous.

Thanks - good points about insects and slipperiness. Sigh. No mature trees, no. That log one looks interesting - off to google some more.

That wooden one looks great! Do you 'need' everything else in your garden? ie the playhouse and trampoline, are they still used?

Yeah I do, everything is well used.

Also, please think of your neighbours. We have a small garden and our neighbours children are always up on the top of their climbing frame. They can literally see all of our garden and in to our kitchen. We have no privacy.

How about some pots of bamboo between the window & the frame. It would be soft screening & you'd still be able to see the children if you need to

Not sure how it would work with a climbing frame, but with a swing set you can grow roses etc over the frame.

i've considered building a pergola with an extra layer of monkey bars at the end of our garden. haven't got around to actually doing it, but I think that could work for combined plants + kids.

otherwise, why not have moveable garden toys? we have a similar size of garden and have swingball / paddling pool / pop-up tents / water pistols which are all used at different times.