Privacy Screening

Multi-rhs Gold medal winner Victoria Wade shares her tips

Need to create a screen fast? Try arranging large pots of bamboo – just make sure they are kept watered all summer as they hate drying out.

Pleached trees (trees grown with a straight stem and a head of spreading branches) are a great way to create screening that extends over the height of a fence.

Try slatted screens rather than solid fences and use them to grow scented climbers – Trachelospermum jasminoides

(star jasmine) is always a winner.

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