How to hide a fence

[SeaPidge]

Our neighbours' garden is slightly higher than ours. They've recently had their garden redone, and decided to put in their own fence about 6inches in from their side of the boundary.

Because their land is higher, we can see the top of their fence above ours, and it looks a bit rubbish (see photo).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we could do to hide it?

We were thinking of taking down our fence and planting something that grows tall(ish) and narrow, so that it doesn't stick out too far into our flowerbed. Does anyone have any plant suggestions? Or any other ideas of what we could do? We would like to keep something along the actual boundary line.

A campsis along a wire above that would eventually make a kind of top heavy shrub that would mask that perfectly.

There is one growing near me in a similar situation and I covet it.

Are you on good terms with your neighbour? If you are I would have a chat with them about taking your fence down and planting a climber to go up their fence. Get an informal agreement about you planting on their 6" of land.

I'm guessing not good terms though, otherwise why would they put a 2nd fence up when they could have just come to an arrangement with you about putting new higher panels to replace yours.

In which case I'd take your panels down and replace with freestanding trellis on your boundary then grow clematis/rose/Jasmine up it. You can get evergreen jasmine, or plant different varieties of Clematis so you get colour all year round. Passion flower grows extremely fast but soon takes over and it's bare in the winter