Can I add anything to extend height of this fence post (with pic)

[united4ever]

Have this 2.7m fence post but wish I had bought a 3 meter one. Trying to cover up the view at the back. Have a star jasmine recently planted at the bottom. Is there an easy way to extend the height of this fence post so when the star jasmine reaches that height I can cover up the area behind?

I think you need something a little wider. It's not covering much at all.

😉 Sorry!

Yeah, it is one of three posts and got some torsioned wire to grow various climbers. It is just this one corner where I would like a bit more height. This is the overview pic:

Isn't there trellis on the weird structure behind your fence? Honestly I'd just train my plants up that. Nobody can see. (Unless they remove the weird structure, which would solve the problem anyway?)

Is the fence post just stuck in front of that half height wall?
Why dont you get some nice, large trellises and put them on top of the wall? If the wall is yours?

Btw, is your trampoline sitting on hard ground? They need to be on grass or have mats put under them. They shouldn't be on hard ground. More likely to have damage that way.

Yeah. Wall is mine. Fences are neighbours. Don't really want to have things interfering/using neighbours fence.

Large trellis drilled into the wall is an idea but thought the simpler approach would be three fence posts with torsioned galvanised wire between. Maybe that was a bad choice. The fence posts do sit right in front of the wall and are concrete in at the base.

Trampoline is on hard ground. Do you mean the trampoline can damage the ground? The kids barely use it anyway and was planning to get rid.

I might be wrong, OP, but it looks like your posts just have 1 or 2 wires across them. Most climbers will need greater support and structure than that.

I think I'd be tempted to do something to 'fill in' the spaces between the wires (e.g. chicken wire) and then find a fast growing climber to scramble up there.

Clematis Montana will do the trick but isn't evergreen.

If you want something evergreen then your star jasmine will do it, but take up to 5 years to get there. Or good old ivy will take care of it quickly.

I think if you wish you'd got taller posts, take these ones off before the plants have grown up, and put in taller posts. Otherwise you'll always be wishing they were taller, and then the wires will have climbers on making it much less easy to change them.

Yeah. I have the wire in the garage ready to install. Hmmmm. I think the short answer to my question is no without changing the posts. I will think about changing the posts or I may just live with it. Might buy another amelanchiar Lamarkii (one already in the picture) which I like and seem just about the right height but are not evergreen.

I believe technically anything over 2m needs planning permission, including trellis. Whether that ever gets checked is I suppose dependent on neighbours not complaining.

Could you plant some smallish trees to help block the view

@Row1n yeah, small tree is an idea. Any recommendations?

Fence post caps perhaps? 30cm is ralatively tall but someone I knew had fence post caps with solar lights in them which must have been a good 20-25cm. Theylooked like copper lanterns but fence post shaped.

@united4ever

Yeah. I have the wire in the garage ready to install. Hmmmm. I think the short answer to my question is no without changing the posts. I will think about changing the posts or I may just live with it. Might buy another amelanchiar Lamarkii (one already in the picture) which I like and seem just about the right height but are not evergreen.

If it makes you feel any better - once your climbers are up and over the top wire (assuming there is one right at the top) they will then tumble over themselves and add more height anyway. As the difference you are looking for is just 30cm, that's possible to achieve with just extra plant growth.

We have a dwarf self-fertile damson that is nice and bushy and is about that height. And gives us about 4-6 jars of jam each year

Slower growing crabtrees can also be kept pruned to the right height without too much hassle.

Holly?

A bamboo? Ours looked gorgeous, like a small tree

Could you fix some sort of plant support to the top; a mini obelisk sort of thing?

You can order brackets on line from a company called Postfix which enable you to increase the height of a fence. They make several different types for different posts. We used them to double the height of our fence when we adopted a lurcher. Sorry I don't have a link. They're not exactly pretty but it shouldn't show behind the jasmine anyway.

If you're looking for native trees, blackthorn, crab apple, dog rose and dogwood are good. Blackthorn will give you sloes as well if you like sloe gin, or want to be able to gift it!

@3beesinmybonnet

You can order brackets on line from a company called Postfix which enable you to increase the height of a fence. They make several different types for different posts. We used them to double the height of our fence when we adopted a lurcher. Sorry I don't have a link. They're not exactly pretty but it shouldn't show behind the jasmine anyway.

Ah, found them

postfixbrackets.co.uk/View_Range/Extensions/extensions.html

Its an idea. My jasmine is still small so may wait until it is at the top of fence post and then add something like this. Could easily do that to the other two posts and have a wire at the height I want this way.

The reason for the trampoline not being on hard ground is to protect any children who fall off it