Any suggestions for covering a 5m long, 1.8m high, east-facing
concrete fence? There are raspberry canes growing about 50cm in front
of it, but in winter these don't hide it very well. I was wondering if
some sort of windbreak product (like a split-canes screen) would do
the job. Or is there a plant (other than ivy) which would happily live
behind the raspberries?

Any suggestions for covering a 5m long, 1.8m high, east-facing
concrete fence?

Bamboo plants? And yes, some can be rather invasive but you can containerise
it or plant non-invasive stuff....

- h

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Any suggestions for covering a 5m long, 1.8m high, east-facing
concrete fence?


A Muriel? ;-)


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In article ,
Mike writes:
| In article , JS
| writes
| Any suggestions for covering a 5m long, 1.8m high, east-facing
| concrete fence?
|
| A Muriel? ;-)

You are a bright Spark!

As always, it depends on the situation and soil, but you can
either use one of the self-clinging creepers, from Campsis to
Hydrangea petiolaris to Virginia creeper to ivy, or fix something
for creepers to climb up. If the latter, then Clematis armandii
is one of the best covering plants and would make a spectacular
show in spring on that length!

I would tend to provide something for climbers to go up and plant
a variety of them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Since you have Raspberry canes just 50 cm away ant climber would need to be
well controlled
I agree Clematis Armandii would be lovely just be prepared to tie in the
tendrils from now onwards through growing season


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In article ,
Mike writes:
| In article , JS
| writes
| Any suggestions for covering a 5m long, 1.8m high, east-facing
| concrete fence?
|
| A Muriel? ;-)

You are a bright Spark!

As always, it depends on the situation and soil, but you can
either use one of the self-clinging creepers, from Campsis to
Hydrangea petiolaris to Virginia creeper to ivy, or fix something
for creepers to climb up. If the latter, then Clematis armandii
is one of the best covering plants and would make a spectacular
show in spring on that length!

I would tend to provide something for climbers to go up and plant
a variety of them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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m...
Any suggestions for covering a 5m long, 1.8m high, east-facing
concrete fence? There are raspberry canes growing about 50cm in front
of it, but in winter these don't hide it very well. I was wondering if
some sort of windbreak product (like a split-canes screen) would do
the job. Or is there a plant (other than ivy) which would happily live
behind the raspberries?


Concrete fence, is that an oxymoron, a bit like a wooden wall?

AndyP

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:14:34 +0100, andyp wrote:

Concrete fence, is that an oxymoron, a bit like a wooden wall?

Neither is an oxymoron.

One sees fences in this area made with posts *and* openwork
panels of precast concrete. I think they look godawful, but at
least they will never rot nor will they suffer the depredations
of carpenter ants and termites.

As for "wooden wall", I've seen an old boiler house (part of a
defunct sawmill, at a guess) with walls made of heavy planks
stacked on the flat and overlapped at the corners. I suppose if
large-dimension lumber is cheap and plentiful and other building
materials scarce, such an architecture makes perfect sense.


--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Thanks for the useful suggestions. As for concrete fence, it may be
the wrong term but I think it conveys the appearance of the thing:
concrete posts spaced about 2m apart with concrete panels in between.