Any ideas...

My neighbour has erected a fence...(we've had a chat about it in here in the past!!!).....which is only three feet from our clothes line.

Now this sapling has appeared and it won't be long before it snags Mrs Pals washing! Planting a tree there is not the action of a normal decent thinking person and I feel it's time she was dealt a similar hand
Not wanting to grow something that would overhang her property,I wondered if this little beauty planted adjacent the tree or in another select spot would do a nice sun blocking job and stay compact at the same time?...It is in a pot and last year was half that size so it is a fast grower...just don't know what type of conifer it is.

 

Sorry pal but I think your clothes line is three foot from the boundry. :D
You could plant it next to your neighbours tree, but then your tree would snag the washing.
It looks a but like some kind of cupressus.

 

I can see why you're none too happy, Pal - but maybe the neighbour wants to block her view of your clothes line! And she has at least chosen a rather nice tree!!

I'm afraid I have to agree with Pete - putting up a conifer of any sort wouldn't actually solve anything, and would foul your washing line too. I think you might be best to see if there's somewhere you could put up a rotary dryer, and concentrate on keep the blood pressure down!

 

It looks like a Leylandii to me, Pal, which grows quickly and gets very big. I bordered the front of my property with them in Bucks. They can get very straggly so not nice from your view.

I agree with dendro, the neighbour has a least chosen a nice tree.

Maybe when the sapling grows into a tree you can move the clothes line? Horrors I know! :eek:

 

Copper nails work wonders I'm told...

 

Great Scot!!..if that`s a scots pine, it grows to 40 meters! :D

 

that looks like a cupressus gold crest that usually hits about 3-5 m. not as horrible as the leylandi. touchy subject pal, the fence looks pretty decent as does your neighbours tree, what about moving the washing line? not that you should have to by any account, but maybe just for your own benefit. you still get to have a nice new fence erected on your border for free and get the colourful tree next door ?

 

Definitely go for a rotary washing line Pal they fold into virtualy nothing when not in use mine I just slot it out the ground, no one wants to look at their neighbours washing(unless they have a fetish)I would rather look at the tree than the washing