My next door neighbor did much the same. I planted Sweet Peas and
Morning Glories which have been the one bit of saving grace masking
much of the worst that he has done. I am of the do what ya want just
leave me alone school. So instead of hand wringing and bitching about
his yard rapine I planted a living screen. Simple, effective and low
maintenance.

When some one complains about the Violets in my lawn I smile and pick
a posie to put in a window vase, makes the wife smile. It is best to
cultivate a canvas back allowing the worst of the complaints to simply
roll off.

Dave

On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 21:31:59 GMT, "Vox Humana"
wrote:


"animaux" wrote in message
.. .
Which is what I did in the back. I have a length of common fence with the
igit
and I attached concrete reinforcement grid and have a nice Schizophragma
hydrangoides (sp?) and some ivy treebine, and Virginia creeper. In a year
or
so, I won't be able to see a thing.


I guess Virginia creeper has some merit! I would need a wall of it about 20
feet high to mask my neighbor's legal but ugly yard. Because of the
difference in elevation between our houses I can see every square inch of
their yard. The meant well, but they clear cut their entire back yard which
is on a slope. Then they used Round Up on it and killed all the vegetation.
Now it is an eroding mess. The erosion undercut the last huge tree they had
and it fell, nearly hitting their house. The tree took out the tops of two
of my trees when it fell. I seriously thinking of putting in a bamboo
screen. Even if we were allowed to have privacy fences, there wouldn't be
one that would reasonably work.


Dave Fouchey, WA4EMR
http://photos.yahoo.com/davefouchey
Southeastern Lower Michigan
42° 35' 20'' N,
82° 58' 37'' W
GMT Offset: -5
Time Zone: Eastern