hard to tell on this pic.. but if it were me.. i would go 3 to 4 feet back.. and plant a whole new sight block.. presuming its your property back there... and in a few years.. when it is doing its job.. get rid of these ugly old things... the problem with inter-planting.. with these very old mature trees.. is that their root competition is going to make survival hard.. for new transplants... unless you are there to perfect moisture thru the whole root zone... for a year or two .... i took me an hour.. but that is a boat thingee at the bottom.. and if this is the cottage.. and you wont be there all the time.. then the water management could become a problem .... i would bet my shiny nickle.. you might not even get a shovel in the ground there .... and by the time you dig holes in between them all.. they might fall over ... is that wall new.. heavy construction can do a lot of damage to older trees.. i wonder also.. if they might not fail entirely.. in the next year or two .... think outside your box.. of working between them ... and... shrubs is a common term.. these are actually conifers.... and if you want suggestions on replacement conifers.. i suggest you try that forum .... ken

Oh my gosh, drippy! You have a ROS Bluebird! I need to have one of those! I just saw one in a seed catalog this year and it just looked fabulous! I never knew they came in such a wonderful blue! If I can't find one to buy during this year, I'll have to start one, but I really, really want one sooner!

Climbing hydrangea are supposed to stick to any flat surface, so in time it should just simply climb the fence again. You could assist by lassoing the nearest branch(es) to the lattice with twine or stake and tie branches close to the fence at the exact point you want them to start sticking. However, I do not know how far away is "too far" because I'm not a petiolaris guru, but if it's an established plant, distance would be less of an issue.

My guess is that those trees are Bradford pears. They are routinely 'pruned' that way, when I was working in Nashville I saw that all the time, and not only to ornamental pears. As rhizo said that is NOT pollarding. Anyway, the trees will respond with a mass of water sprouts and epicormic shoots, it will have grown many feet by summers end. The hack job will change the shape of the trees for as long as they live. Taking a closer look at the image, I see they have been similarly butchered in the past. TN, and many other states, consider them invasive species. The trees develop terrible crotches subject to splitting in storms, or just self-destructing. In their defense, they bloom white very early, sometimes in Feb, and I've seen them in full blazing fall color at Christmas in Nashville.