Hello folks,

I am, at last, close to getting my first house, fingers crossed!

The garden is long (200 feet) and narrow and fairly bare. The most pressing
thing to sort out is that the right hand border is rather exposed. For the
bottom 60 feet or so the lawn goes all the way up to the neighbour's
boundary fence which is only 3 feet high. His garden is also hardly fenced
at the bottom and there's a public footpath along there which means that
most of our garden has no privacy.

My solution is to get a narrow, low maintenance shrub border going ASAP.
It'll be south facing and, I think, rather clay.

Anyway, this is as far as I've got, given my complete inexperience!

I'd really appreciate some help getting started planning this - particularly
a) nice/vigourous shrubs/combinations of shrubs for my purpose
b) how I lay out the border other than in a straight thin line which'll
probably make the garden look even longer and narrower
c) how to get some instant height in there, so there's some privacy further
up the garden at least.

Phew - thanks for taking the time to read this, and for any ideas...
glen.