Is there any cheaper alternatives to garden fences, to enable me to have some privacy in my garden?

Apart from putting a fence up, or growing hedges, is there any way of putting something in the garden, to stop us from having to see our neighbours?



I am pretty sure I saw something for this purpose a few years ago, but we would like a bit of privacy in the summer, without having to put up with seeing our neighbours.

Is there any cheaper alternatives to garden fences, to enable me to have some privacy in my garden?
I put up a tressil and then grew a clematis over it...fab and it looks pretty!
Reply:i would go to a timber reclaimer yard, or buy some posts and planks and build it yourself. cement for the posts aswell. it works out a lot cheaper and lasts much much longer.



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you should ask your naighbour to contribute towards it, we do and they usually pay up. after all if they got kids they will be climbing on it and they will be the ones who damage it, as long as they paid for some of it they might take care of it better.
Reply:Other than a couple of Tresses....I think your only choices would be folding screens.....which you can make yourself with hinges and plywood...or the Plastic sheets of lattice....these can be screwed together for a privacy screen....

Home Depot carries the Lattice......
Reply:There are bushes, trees %26amp; tall grasses of all sizes.
Reply:they make a bamboo fence that is good and cheap
Reply:You get these things that are like fences but really cheap. They're like lots of big stick things or bamboo sticks tied together.

I'm not explaining them well but go to your local hardware store, like a B and Q or something and they'll point you in the right direction!
Reply:are there any cheaper alternatives ?
Reply:Cutains.
Reply:Here is an idea, you can make your own.



Trellis with planter box:



http://www.simplyarbors.com/trellises/vi...
Reply:What about a washing line, or tent like screen with a slight roof--from garden centres?
Reply:We grew a living fence of white cedars. They keep the mosquitoes at bay and when the cedars, which grow quickly, get tall we trim them back. We use the "leaves" to make sachets which keep moths out of our home and the rest goes for mulch to protect the ground from the inevitable weeds and against winter frosts.
Reply:There is a poly-vinyl screening material you can find at the big home building centers.Comes in several colors. It can be sewed on a home machine too! We built a frame from PVC pipe for ours. ( Found gray and white .) Made it in a half square shape. Dug holes to install short pieces of slightly larger pipes to hold it up. Works great and was not so expensive. Easy to take down for winter. Good Luck!