Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Wife wants the garden screened from the road.
The photo is taken from inside the area we want screened off.
Thinking of some kind of wire mesh to make higher cover on fence sections, secured with zip ties, and then have a climber planted by both walls.
Needs to be evergreen. Don't really like ivy but it would be ideal in this case.
Advice welcome.
Can't be bamboo though as wife is Japanese and has a pathological fear of it running amok and uprooting our house.
There's some wisteria to the right of photo but obvs in winter it's not much use.
Not sure what to do about gate area.