We were just about to put our house on the market when the neighbours cut down ALL the trees which gave us privacy in the front half of the block. We've got paving to the boundary on our side (they're intending to put decent hedging plants in to restore privacy but that will take too long for us AND they're great people who will have it all looking smicky in time but we can't wait that long!) All we can see now is an old house that desperately needs painting (yep, will get done within the next couple of years, they're hard working DIY'ers). My query: are we best to get some advanced trees (evergreen: it's coming up winter in Australia!) and put them in pots along the fence line, or make some kind of garden bed on our side of the fence. We have an old (for Australia!) Victorian heritage house and need to have great street appeal for selling. We have an established 'box hedge type' English style front yard. Where we had beautiful plants hanging over the fence we now have a barren horror! (Lovely neighbours, tho!) Basically, we have 3 WINTER months to fix the problem and grow plants about 4 metres high. EEK!!!! Does anyone have any ideas??