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from Richard Savage contains these words:
Pete Stockdale wrote:

Why not live with its benefits and use it to grow climbers and creepers
instead.
They will produce "greener" benefits far better and quicker.
than any freestanding hedge that will struggle in this position.

In the short term we may plant Honeysuckle/Golden Hop/suggestions? to
cover the top of the fence

Evergreen honeysuckle, clematis, grape vines, self-fertile Actinidia
(Chinese gooseberry) to name but a few.

BTW - I would also be considering the future of the conifers that remain.

Strange as it might seem I rather like the huge conifers!

Driving back home through Sussex, Kent and that hole under the Thames, I
saw an absolutely stunning cypress - it had racemes of pale purple
flowers...

As I drew nearer I saw that it had a wisteria growing through it.

Perhaps your hedging whips would be better employed at the bottom of your
garden !

Of the four you can see in the photo entitled ....'May_2006'; counting
from the left: the two on the left are mine with the second at the point
where the new fence and the hedge across the end of the garden meet.
Numbers 3 and 4 belong to my neighbour.

But with permission, you could still invade those with wisteria...

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Rusty
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