Help choosing plant to use as barrier....

clematis can also be used climbing and twining on an up right shrub or a small tree type shrub, so that gives you double duty for one area.

Honeysuckle, there are many that smell wonderful. If you are able to have hummingbirds in your area, unfortunately the one listed in the books as the most favorite for attracting hummingbirds does not have a fragrance. I opted for that one, because of the birds, it climbs up the side of my deck and on the railing and across now about 4 foot. I can sit on my deck (with coffee) and they buzz the flowers, which are in continuous bloom throughout the summer. This plant has one vine (inch diameter ) coming out of the ground and from there I gentle tied it to the direction I wanted it to go. As far as pruning--as I guide the vine to the area, if one is doing something I don't like I just cut it off, the blooming never seems to be effected. If you buy a cultured honeysuckle, not a wild one, they are more controllable. A good nursery person will lead you to the right one, or a good book.

Have you thought of a lilac tree?---the trunk part would have no leaves on it, but that is the area of the fence any way, about 4 to 5 feet up starts the limbs, it blooms in June for me, wonderful smell. They grow about 15 feet up right with some spread. So then at the bottom part you would still have room to plant other things around the trunk area.

 

HI all,

Thanks for the many replies....

I'm going to print off all these replies and go along to the garden center near me to see what these plants look like in the flesh.

I will keep you all updated on my progress and i'm sure I will have further questions... :D


Many thanks again for your time its much appreciated.

 

I. Want. Hummingbirds! :D :D :D :D

 

Oh Dave, let me tell you of the most wonderous experience I have had with hummingbirds.
Must put this on your travel list if you love hummingbirds. In Arizona, at a place called Ramsey Canyon that is at the southern point of Arizona, at the end of August and the first week of September is when Hummingbirds migrate to this area. There can be up to 28 types of hummingbirds at a time in the area. We stayed at a lovely little ranch type cottage.
And out side of our kitchen window, at the hummingbird feeder was, count them, 20 hummingbirds going crazy at the feeder. If you went to the porch of the large ranch house, which had 8 feeders in a row, each feeder had at least 15 hummers hitting it at one time, It was so wonderful. Supposedly this area in Arizona is the "birder's" hot spot, for this time of the year, and for other species also. And also the host of the ranch house sent us to some park area, and then there was even more hummers to see. It is breath taking to say the least. I do want to go back some day. And when we were done with our 4 day stay there we traveled north, off the main highways, wonderful sites, to Flagstaff and of course Sedona (a must see--our second time). Arizona is a lovely state, it is so diverse. Once in December when we were there, it actually snowed on the Grand Canyon, the snow fringing the rocks were so beautiful. Fond memories.

 

i very much love where i come from,and to me it is impossible to beat a very cold febuarymorning walking across the pennines either from lancashire or yorkshire but the grand canyon is the one place in the whole world to possibly equal this humbling experience. it must have been heartfood.

 

""Heartfood""---love that word. Yes it was heartfood, simply wordless. The vast visual scope of the Grand Canyon cannot be captured in pictures. At the bottom of the Grand Canyon runs the Colorado River. From the rim of the canyon the river looks pencil thin.

 

You have a very nice compact conifer behind the trampoline. Why not get a few more and in the winter you'll have colour and in the warmer months grow some annual climbers up them,Canary Creeper..Morning Glory etc: for brighter colour