If you were trying to create an organic wall to block out a really ugly view of your neighbor’s trash pile, how would you do it?
The area I’m referring is inside the brackets. It’s lightly sloped and bumpy. I’m thinking something like Leyland Cyprus, but wasn’t sure how it’d look on a bumpy/sloped terrain.
This is the only part of their yard I can see. In the winter, foliage thins out and it exposes more, but this is about as bad as it gets.
Any advice would be great, thank you.
by austnf
26 Comments
Call 311 and ask about how to report illegal dumping. That’s a health hazard and a house for rats.
And put in the cypress.
After they clean it up.
Call your city and say you keep seeing rats. It’s anonymous.
Mexican orange blossom, scented too to cover the smell
Talk to your neighbor.
Can hardly see it
People who want you to burn your neighbor to the ground are great examples of people who would make poor communities when grouped together.
I would plant some sort of big bushy evergreen.
I would also attempt to make contact with my neighbor and figure out what the deal was. Lead with kindness and figure it out from there.
Vernal Witchhazel (Hamamelis Vernalis). Arnold’s Promise and Jelena are my favorite cultivars. Low Vase shaped Growth. Mine is blooming right now. I would plug 1 in and let it grow as they do in the wild as an understory plant. Mariesii Viburnum would be another cool choice. If you wanna go budget and low maintenance Karl Foerester Feather reed Grass (Calimagrostis Acutiflora) would be good planted 2-2 1/2’ on center. This will work from zone 3 to zone 6b
Take the brackets away
Rent a dumpster for “yourself” then tell them you have room leftover for their junk or offer to split a dumpster.
More of whatever the broadleaf evergreen is in behind – probably a rhododendron?
A French drain would fix this.
I was thinking a big inflatable Dragon could block all that garbage, but I guess a big beautiful Bush would work too
Rhododendron
Put your own garbage where the brackets are.
A match
You never want to hear someone say bamboo as a solution, but bamboo is the solution. I recommend digging down at least 10 inches and back filling half with coconut husk, coir. Bamboo goes nuts when it gets a lot of underground water.
Ostrich Fern
A fence would block the view. Or some shrubbery.
That’s really bothering you that much? Lol
Offer to help clean it up with him
Build a fence maybe
Clearly you can certainly plant more to cover it, but who limbed up the trees that are there now and exposed it ?
Have you looked at garden partition
Call code enforcement
That little pile?
Why not just clean it up? Yes, some neighbors suck and it is not your trash but it seems easier to spend 20 minutes with a trash bag.
wood fence