Memorial garden

Josefina de Vasconcellos has given the local church 3 statues to place in a garden to be used by those who have lost children. I have the job of creating it.
I have various problems because of conflicting requirements. Rather than overload the question by listing them all, I will presume on the assistance of members to perhaps help me over a series of questions in this thread.

First one. There is a vertically slatted wooden fence demarkating the area which also acts as a windbreak. It is 4 feet high and brown! I need to hide it. While I could plant bushes on either side I am constrained by the fact that one side runs along the church access road and I have very little space. Therefore while the plant(s) can spread as far as they want along the fence, they cannot spread very far outwards from the fence. A further consideration is that they need to be unattractive to horses (in the adjacent field) and also non-toxic to them!).

I have thought of training climbers along it, or using a cotoneaster horizontalis that will tend to grow close to the fence.

Any other suggestions please? Incidentally wind, is a bit of a problem too!

[ 16. October 2005, 12:34 PM: Message edited by: JdeV ]

 

What a beautiful idea I know from personal experience how much this will mean to the parents good luck and I am sure you will get plenty of excellent help from this site

 

To the previous suggestions - consider a golden form of ivy, virginnia creeper and ceanothus.

Lovely idea and good luck with it.