Newport,
United Kingdom 
A friend has a 5 foot high iron railing fence along her garden boundary. the other side is a park and kids can look through so robbing her garden of any privacy. growing plants in front of it is one option, albiet slow. I thought of attatching something like bamboo fencing to it (obviously a risk that a kid could set light to it). Anyone put this on a railing fence and know best way to attatch it? Also can you think of any solution i have overlooked. Dont want to erect a fence with posts as there are loads of tree stumps her side. Thanks for suggestions.
20 Mar, 2012
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Preferably prickly ones. I know it's not a climber, but berberis can be useful to deter nosy people and burglars - I know it's slow-growing, but a combination of that and evergreen climbers as Marion suggests might be one answer.
20 Mar, 2012
If there are lots of stumps it may mean the ground is too dry and full of roots to plant in anyway, but if the park is the kind where kids may actually set fire to things something very prickly would seem to be the best bet if she can clear enough ground to plant them. An evergreen berberis hedge is a good idea. Worth waiting a season or two for it to grow.
A cheap immediate solution would be those twiggy brushwoody panels but they are pretty horrible and don't last very long. I guess you could wire them onto the fence.
20 Mar, 2012
a photo mite be a bit more inspiring perhaps if you wouldnt mind . perhaps a pagoda raised that has a raised floor and is the width of the garden unless its realy wide then put a frame on the back of it to staple your bamboo too in front of or above your tree stumps . then grow some nice climbers in planters . just a thaught . if you cant id make up frame work of battaning the size of the bamboo . staple the bamboo to the frame and then wire the frame to the fence already there .
20 Mar, 2012
...Or send for Stevietheterrible and his pallets!
20 Mar, 2012
You don't say how long is this run of iron fence. Someone near us with a very overlooked open metal fence has put up some black stuff, like a wind screening material secured, with those plastic stringy pull through and secure ties to the railing. I can't see through it and it secures privacy. Previously they had bamboo screening but it soon blew to bits in a gale. Get some advice about it at a big GC and work out costs....then decide what to do. Then work out where you can plant and what in the border next to the fence. My suggestion is pyracantha......nice and prickly if the barrier is breached.
21 Mar, 2012
That brushwood screening is held together by wires that rust through lickety-split, then the brushwood blows away. The black wind screening material that Dorjac suggests sounds better - you can secure it with cable ties. Then disguise it on the inside with planting.
21 Mar, 2012
True Beattie - only suggested it because its cheap, as a temporary measure while the hedging plants are growing.
21 Mar, 2012
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How about growing some evergreen climbers through it.
20 Mar, 2012