Re: Tall, thin screen -for shade

 

Elizabeth Waterman wrote:

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> Does anyone have suggestions for a similar, fast-growing tall thin screen that will grow in shade - never any direct sun until about 18 feet.  It has to be thin, to grow along and hide the ugliest building wall in San Francisco.

Have you considered painting a tree or 2 or some interesting mural on
the building?

It is not all solid wall, and the wood it too rotten to support paint.  It really is the ugliest wall once could find.  It is in its lower half, a covered walkway to a cottage in the back of the property, and the upper half is (sort of) supporting an illegally constructed closed-in porch off an apartment.  A large Magnolia grandiflora (which reaches above to the sunlight) partialy obscures about 15 feet of its length, and there is already a clump of bamboo (about 15 feet in height) behind the magnolia.  Passiflora has been tried, but it is a never-ending job of clearing it out of the Magnolia.   Interestingly, the bamboo, now getting lots of water, has sent out some shoots at about 10 feet from the clump; those growing right against the wall are being encouraged.  May not be a clumper after all, but then its runners are few. 
 
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