How about a re-blooming rose? HMF says Madame Alfred Carriere (which is a tea/noisette) is hardy to zone 7b. Others on here have said colder. It gets over 30 feet tall in my garden, climbs up trees, over garages, over fences & up the neighbor's fir tree (I have 3). Here it blooms 11-12 months of the year. Even if it did not bloom in the wintertime for you, it is amazingly continuous blooming.

Or, I think there are some re-blooming ramblers now that are OK for colder weather. Just seems as if you are going to have that much rose on the property line, your neighbors would enjoy one which bloomed a lot more.

Jackie

I have new backyard neighbors with 2 BAD dogs. I have roses planted along their chain link fence, I am so afraid they are going to spread lawn feed into my rose garden and kill the roses. Should I worry about that? That's one bad thing about chain link fence.......

Yellow Banksian Rose on wood fence here got ruined this year by neighbor because it poked through to his side a foot or so, resulting in him spraying it with herbicide - apparently repeatedly.

Mermaid is one that is thorny, blooms repeatedly and gets huge. Am planting some on a hill up by my pond - they can just grow wild and I hope to see blooms this summer. Pink Pillar, a once bloomer, has thorns galore and would be an excellent barrier. I had neighbors who built a huge shop to work on the guy's hot shot race cars. I built an 8' tall wooden fence along the shop with it tapering down at either end. Did the trick. I also planted some arborvitae trees - they make a pretty screen. They moved, now have a great neighbor, but still glad I have the fence. With a chain link, you always have the worry of the neighbor spraying the rose whether its on his side or not. Can hope for the best, maybe the people will enjoy the flowers - good luck.

Even the best fences can need repairs from time to time. Depending on how vicious the rose is that you plant, you may be setting yourself up for some future difficulties.

Everyone has bad neighbors wither its barking dogs or cats that use your yard as their potty. NOT everyone enjoys your pet as much as you do! That aside there is not a lot you can do. I have even put up with one neighbor who thought it was ok to stand on something and look over the block wall into my back yard. There are a lot of very rude people in this world. I feel bad for you. Maybe you will get lucky and they will move.

PS if it was me I would just plant a long thick high hedge

Keep in mind that while you are planting a rose on your side of the fence, it doesn't mean your rose will stay on your side of the fence. My Peggy Martin has to be attended to a couple times a season on the other side of my fence to keep her Octopus canes tied to the fence. On the bright side she is thornless so I just go behind the fence and tie her up on the fence every couple months. Behind my fence is my yard in front of woods so I don't have to tame her but just like to keep the pathway clear as children in the neighborhood like to walk back that way on the way to the creek. If you cannot get to the other side of your fence your neighbors you don't really care about may just start becoming annoying neighbors!

I'd vote for growing a "long thick high hedge", too. I'd use evergreens for it; Leylandii cypresses , though not very attractive, do grow very fast. Or building a high wooden fence, the kind that you can't really even see through (though that would probably be expensive), then a hedge along that.

Why mess with the fence when you can just build something up close to your viewing area that will block them out.

Two posts with a 1/4” x 12” x 8’ pressure treated strip of lattice attached between them, at the top of the posts, can block a huge area that is far away. If you were to stagger a few sets of posts-lattice on your property the neighbors could be completely blocked from view. They wouldn’t have to be even close to the fence. This also gives you a good reason to plant more than one rose bush…. lol Two climbers, one per post, when meeting in the center of the lattice strip would not only make the foot wide strip of lattice disappear but make a bigger screen.

The height of each set of posts would be determined by the distant away from your viewing area.