Bamboo

[tigerlelly]

I want to screen my neighbour's washing (out 7 days a week!) but the low fence between our properties is theirs and next to the fence is our concrete driveway to the garage and workshop. I was thinking about having bamboo in pots along the fence but does bamboo do well in large pots? Any other suggestions? We don't want to offend our neighbours as they are very nice (clean!) people.

[theonlyone]

Bamboo is a very intrusive plant it but should be
ok in pots , can you not put a trellis on the fence and
grow a climbing plant from a pot and train it ?

[geno500]

Hi the last answer may well be your best option if the fence is in good condition ask your neighbours if they mind a trellis being put on there fence then you can keep away from Bamboo as it needs to be planted not in pots if as you want to get height quickly also Bamboo is expensive expect to pay �30 for a decent size plant you would need 3 or 4 the only thing that may help is you could split each one in half,much better to tell the neighbours you want to plant Clematis or Honeysuckle or maybe Passion Flowers all these do well in tubs and don't cost so much.
Best Regards

[tigerlelly]

Thanks. Yes, we thought about the trellis and broached the subject but our neighbours aren't keen, hence the search for something high-ish that will grow in pots.

[Barmaid]

The only trouble with bamboo is that it is gregarious - ie if one of your bamboo plants flower, all the others will and then they die.

I'd go with something lie a passion flower. You can put pots a few feet apart and put trellis or wiring between them.

[katerich48]

i've got 2 wiseria's in pots on my roof terrace and they're both leaping along... Also you get the flowers in the spring..I've found that basically you can grow almost anything if the pot is big enough...

[Whoever]

Bamboo won't do well in pots. It has a nasy habit of spreading and will probably die off after a while if the pots don't prove big enough. How about some of the wide leaved golden /green or cream/green variegated ivies? If you put a stout cane in each deep pot they will soon grow up them and thicken out and provide a permanent attractive screen all year round. You can get some very long lasting green covered carbon fibre canes from garden centres, and if necessary, line the pots up and thread or tie some of that stout green bendy plastic trellis material to the canes higher up. . You will then have a moveable trellis (with the pots) that isn't attached to your neighbours' fence but still provides height for climbing plants.

[another-view]

Mind out for stray pandas too :-)

[theonlyone]

May be you should ask the neighbours if they
would replace the fence to give you more
privacy or go 1/2 on the cost of a replacement ?

[nonomaybe]

The easiest solution is to go and look out of another window .

[tigerlelly]

Ha, Ha!

We can see the washing when we are sitting in the garden; if it was only when I was doing the washing up I wouldn't give a monkey's!