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It's a bit unclear who owns what. There's a little alley behind our garden (which I think now ends at the panelled fence, formerly it was the chain link fence) and the gardens behind (where the trellis is) and in this alley is where the developer planted the trees.
I think that if we attached trellis to the fence, no one who cared would notice.
It's tricky, there are a lot of boxes to tick - ideally, nice-looking, evergreen, fast-growing.
I think maybe we should just plant the laurel for ease and speed, and then more interesting plants beneath and between.
tbc
We want some screening plants at the back of our garden.
A local tree place recommended laurel plants and a neighbour has bamboo in a trough but are there any native alternatives that we should consider?
Something that will grow up and out quickly, and high enough to block the windows behind as far as possible? The developers who built the houses behind have put in silver birches and something else, possibly maple, but they aren't likely to do much in terms of privacy.