Covering a fence

dufflight · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:10 pm

I've been wanting to replace a fence with a tin one but don't really want to invest the time and money. Mainly the time. The regular mesh fence is like new so I thought I'd plant a few vines and see if I can over it. Jasmine is the pick so far. Smells good and the flowers will attract a lot of bees. As the fence is on the lane way side the added insect activity may stop a lot of the kids from using it. Not against all kids, just the ones that case your house and tease the dog through the fence.
Any thoughts on a better plant.

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

Blackberries and goose berries will make good vines and the thorns will keep the kids off of the fence but also may attract them for the pickings. Generally not very attractive but possibly mixed with the jasmines or Japanese honeysuckle.

chillidude · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:54 pm

Just beware of other trees if you have any growing close by. We had a jasmine, against my advice, that ended up growing up into some nearby grevilleas. The extra mass and leaf cover effectively turned them into a sail and of course they snapped off in the summer nightime easterlies.

I'm now more upfront and say that I will glyphosate any creeper that gets planted on our land :thumb:

If you don't have any trees near it -no problem !

Bougainvillea(s) would be my other suggestion if your looking to dissuade people from getting too close !

dufflight · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:32 pm

Got 1 Bougainvillea growing on the fence at the moment. Needs pruning to incourage new growth.

Planted 3 jasmines along the fence today. Will help when I get a bee hive later.

earthbound · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:49 pm

Flame vine is one of my favourite all time plants, which is saying something considering I don;t like most ornamentals. Brilliant show of colour and not to hard to contain

This picture doesn't really do it much justice...

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Faye · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:25 pm

Joel and flowers- another oxymoron! :confused:

chillidude · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:06 am

You're business partner is making you sound very picky there Joel - don't like flowers, don't like coriander. What else is there ????

earthbound · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:56 pm

I'm not going to start on Faye's dislikes, after she has just sent Mitch back to put her orange juice in a glass.. How dare he serve orange juice in a coffee cup. :duck:

chillidude · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:30 pm

The Fool ! What was he thinking ? :shock:

Faye · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:06 pm

Well someone has to demonstrate a little decorum :wink:

Tristrin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:00 pm

dufflight wrote:

Planted 3 jasmines along the fence today.

Only just found this thread, but for future reference an alternative plant to jasmine is Solanum jasminoides.
Solanum...related to tomatoes & potatoes, common name 'potato vine'
jasminoides...means 'looks like a jasmine'
Very hardy plant without the problems of a jasmine.

dufflight · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:05 pm

My cuttings that looks and smells similar to jasmine but flowers more often have taken. Well they don't pull out of the ground anymore. Will plant out 20 or so of them and gave a few away.

pistolknight · **Posted:** Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:27 am

Faye wrote:

Joel and flowers- another oxymoron! :confused:

Joel I must say I am on your side, they look fine in someone elses garden, if you can't eat them why waste the time :dunno:

but she keeps buying them, I refuse to dig holes now if it isn't edible

On that note why not try some Passion Fruit Duff, I have just got a Banana Passionfruit, plants are cheap and grow fast, you can also get thornless blackberries
Or stick your avatar on the fence, that should sort the kids out

earthbound · **Posted:** Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:16 pm

Faye just got me a new passionfruit plant... Evidently it's on a new rootstock and the nursery people said something about the old rootstocks are declared a weed in many places.

chillidude · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:28 pm

earthbound wrote:

Faye just got me a new passionfruit plant... the nursery people said something about the old rootstocks are declared a weed in many places.

Applaud the decision, just don't know why they didn't do it many years ago - there's plenty of supporting evidence. Not sure how I'll go convincing Mrs Chilli we need to rip out the ones we have and put in some decent ones.

One way to find out ...... :duck:

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