"Annelies" wrote in message et...
We would like to rip a rotten overlap fence out - there is a chain link
fence right behind it keeping the next door school kids on their side
anyway. It is an East facing boundary with nothing much in front of it (yet,
remember our blank canvass?) and we would like to plant climbers which give
us our privacy back as fast and as long as possible.
The chain link fence is 7 ft high and about 80 ft long. Soil is not too bad,
bit of clay but nothing extraordinary.
I sometimes think climbers on that sort of fence look a bit odd but that's a matter of taste and my word isn't law
in such matters. My own preference if there's room is for a border of fairly vigorous shrubs preferably growing
through the fence - but a bit in from the fence if there's any chance of the neighbours being tempted to mutilate
anything that grows through the fence. I that idea appeals to you I'm sure the congregation can give you a big
list.

Rod