Backyard Privacy ideas to hide metal monster please!
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houssaon
3 years agoIt would be helpful to posts some pictures.
If they don't enforce the RV parking, then they should not enforce you building something to hide it from your view.
One plant that grows quickly is Bamboo. I would put it in tubs to keep it from spreading.
You could build trellises inside the fence and grow a vine.
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Comments (22)Check Facebook market and craigslist etc. for materials and stuff! Free or cheap find can help with cost! If you can't afford a fence maybe just some cheaper landscaping or raised garden beds with some taller things like tomatoes, (squash will climb too) (from free materials!) Down your property line. Hopefully they'll take a hint and stop playing catch in your yard! At the very least record this, it's trespassing. Maybe the HOA can step in for you. It'd be different if you guys were friendly and they asked for permission. Also maybe those cloth sun screens could help? They aren't terribly expensive (I'm looking at some to block the creepy camera the neighbor installed to watch us, and they'd told us they are watching us. The kids see them watching through the windows! Now they have a camera too) but if you angle them right (low on the neighbors side, he'll who to say you can't put one of those vertically between some post? It's not a fence) between that and any plants you put in could help create near full privacy! You can find so many DIY projects on youtube and online now and days, if you are really struggling to keep this low budget try to do it yourself, and keep it simple, you can always build off of it. Also guess I'm lost on the plants allowed...but what if you installed like a wire climbing wall (wood frame) for plants...maybe you could build it higher too? The best cheap solution I have that is easily reversible for something more permanent is you could make a small garden along the property line, cherry tomatoes grow quick, some quite tall (I've grown some over 10ft high with wood post and chicken wire as a climbing wall) and offer pretty good coverage. Bonus is you can grown them from seeds so they're very cheap, and Tomatoes! Yum! Sunflowers would be a good choice too (especially down the property so they can't use it for catch). Wouldn't be year round but it'd help you most in the seasons they are out there the most. Maybe a "wall" of bird houses on post, grow some viney plants around and between them? Bonus you can face them towards the neighbors so the birds coming in and out will poop all over their yard and pool. Could you build a wall with wood frames and glass? Maybe in small sections broken up by hedges or some bushy plant? You can treat it so it let light in but blocks their view...that with a sun screen cover until you can build something more permanent might work. Last resort might be a shed or something, but that'll probably ruin your space. Hope some that helped, if not, seriously, check out youtube and pinterest etc, you'll find some ideas!...See MoreFence idea for backyard abutting neighborhood park
Comments (17)Try no fencing at all. If problems arise address it then but I'd wait and see while you enjoy your magnificent back yard. If people walk by and look just wave, smile and say good afternoon while going about your business. This may turn into a rewarding pass time over the years so see how it goes. Just a few corner items to define the boundaries is all I suggest for now and at most a low simple 30" fence if people creep across the boundaries on a regular basis. I would never desecrate what you will have with a privacy fence of any type. In my experience a privacy fence in a setting like yours would be a prime spot for young people to congregate behind looking for privacy themselves for any of a number of reasons, and there would be nothing you could do except pick up the beer cans they throw over the fence in the morning. They'd be more worried about you watching them than the other way around and find a new place to party. 6' high iron fencing would make me feel like a prisoner in my own back yard, maybe it's just me but I'm just sharing....See MoreSibarita
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Bamboo grows very quickly and if you elevate the plating bed you should have nearly instant results.
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The bamboo I've seen in containers generally gets shabby looking. Plants growing directly in the ground are a lot easier to keep happy looking. But n Colorado, I doubt you'll be able to grow a bamboo that makes you happy.While the above picture looks like a vine covered fence, there is no fence. It's a vine growing on a trellis. It's not tall enough for your needs, but the height is whatever you make it to be, based on the height of the posts, which are all freestanding and separate. Posts are installed the same as would be for a fence, about 8' apart. (I have them here at 10' because the sum of factors influencing me demanded it.) At each side of the post tops are large hooks and a chain connects each post to the next. (I wouldn't go any lighter than porch swing chain. No rope will work as it deteriorates.) From the chain, at 12" intervals, I ran twine straight down to the ground and tied it to a stake pounded in the ground. Plant one perennial vine for each section (between posts) of trellis. You have to pick a good drapey vine and I can't certify what would be the best for your climate. (I used Flame Vine, above, but it's for warm climates.) Virginia creeper comes to mind as one that would work, if it grows there and I imagine it does, but it's going to be rambunctious. The same for Boston ivy. (Still, these things are not impossible to control.) It's going to take a couple of years for a perennial vine to get to the point of doing a great job. Meanwhile, also plant annual vines, from seed, at every foot or two of trellis run. They're up and running in no time. It's possible to have complete coverage in a matter of weeks. And annual vines put on some tremendous flowering shows. I'd recommend moonflower vine for first choice and Heavenly Blue morning glory for second. Seeds available on Ebay. (Other morning glories, like 'Grandpa Ott,' can be invasive and never stop reseeding so I'd steer clear of them.)
Anyway, this could be a good way around the problem if you play it out right. For the most part, it amounts to tall posts in the ground -- legal -- that have no fencing whatsoever attached to them. How are you supposed to be responsible for it if some gorgeous vines happen to find the posts and climb on them ...?? Of their own accord, vines are climbing on things all across rule laden, civilized America with nobody doing a thing about it! Even if trimmed down, such things are liable to climb right back up. :-)
It helps if the posts have pretty tops as they must be looked at for a while.
I don't have a picture of it, but every year the above vine goes through a brief period of leaf loss loss right after flowering. But even after the leaves drop, the screening is maintained because the vines themselves have formed a dense network of branching. After it has gotten thick, it looks good, too.
It just occurred to me that grapes as a vine type might work out great for you.
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