What would you plant here?

[StartingOverInMy40s]

I need some advice.

we’ve just moved into an old Victorian house and as much as I love the garden, it needs something planted along the fence. I’m not a fan of roses and it needs to be low maintenance as I’m not a gardener (yet) 😂

I’ve added a photo but it’s taking a while to show.

Lavender would look lovely, or Jasmine.

i can’t tell whether it’s shady or bright, but I’d be tempted to add a climber like clematis to ramble along the trellising at the top of your fence. Armandii keeps green leaves in winter. They need planting deep, to keep the roots cool.

Chaenomeles (Japanese quince) - easy to look after, doesn't grow like a bastard, and has lovely white, pink or coral flowers in spring.

Cotoneaster horizontalis, low & slow-growing with a herringbone pattern of branches, small flowers around now and berries in autumn.

Lavender 'Hidcote'.

Whatever you plant in there though, you are going to have to keep watered from now until the middle of autumn.

Pyracantha to deter anyone from climbing over - evergreen and has berries in winter. A clematis - can be grown through a shrub. Sweet box - another evergreen with scented cream flowers in winter/early spring and dark berries spring into summer. Put some daffodils and narcissi in.

What will thrive there depends on whether that side of the fence is mostly in sun or shade.

Sun or shade makes all the difference. If shade I would make it a lovely woodlandy feel border, if sun mediterranean style.

Do you need it to screen from the road/whatever is behind?