hide my clotheslines

[Jessi]

Do those lines have to be there? If not you could just move them.
You could try to decorate the poles by painting them. I don't think a climbing flower would be ok because it will climb on the lines too.

You can train them to just go up and down the poles. Each pruning season, they would need to be pruned back some and then they'd be good to go for the next season without getting out of control.

 

[Pete]

I too want to hide a few things in my new garden. In the past I did put up a fast growing climbing plant to hide an unsightly fence, but I didn’t do my research very well and the plant turned into a monster! I think it was called “white Russian “and it grew at such a speed that I was forever trimming it! This time around I want to plant something that covers but is also easy to manage.

 

[Champrs1]

I like that idea too. Does anyone have photos?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Hate tumble driers, use masses of energy and pump out all that wasted heat. We have one, but it is rarely used, mostly for sealing waterproofing. Our clothes line is green plastic, so the line doesn't show up much, avoid brightly coloured plastic pegs as well, they stand out. It runs to a concrete post halfway down the garden that has a really thick old ivy growing up it which I have trimmed into a sort of lollipop shape.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I think it was called “white Russian “

That will be Russian vine AKA, Mile a Minute for reasons you now understand . I have heard of it being planted next to a tree someone wanted to lose, but which had a protection order on it, death by natural causes, but I wouldn't recommend planting it anywhere, I know of a whole row of garages that are completely covered.

 

[Anniekay]

I hate clothes dryers too !! I own one because we sometimes have days and days of heavy rains and once you run out of clean underwear, well, there just no choice but to employ the use of the dryer.

I don't have a "store-bought" clothes line. I have a cotton rope tied from one white oak to the other that's 60' or so away.

It's totally unnoticeable (no screening necessary) unless you were at eye level to it and then you'd have to be well over 6'6" tall. I use a worn out hoe to hook onto it so I can get my first piece of clothes pinned to it ( I'm "fun- sized", 5 '1" ) can't reach it unless it's got weight on it.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

My clothes line in the winter. I don't hide mine. too far away . But they do have retraction things I believe.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

You should see the clothes lines the Amish have. they have these wheel things, double lines, and way up high. From 2nd floor porch to top of a barn. there's this pully thing. No clue how it works. But lines of clothes hang ever day.

 

[Sean Regan]

Here in the North-West of England, some of us don't have those newfangled clotheslines, we have to get by on those old-fashioned tumble dryers.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Here in the North-West of England, some of us don't have those newfangled clotheslines, we have to get by on those old-fashioned tumble dryers.

Come on, confess it, it would ruin the look. What does a Japanese clothes line look like?

 

[Anniekay]

Come on, confess it, it would ruin the look. What does a Japanese clothes line look like?

 

[Sean Regan]

Come on, confess it, it would ruin the look. What does a Japanese clothes line look like?

It's not that at all.
As my wife has had MS, for over thirty years, she can't manage putting washing on a clothes line and there's no way I'm going to do it.
She likes to do things for herself when she can, "it keeps her going." She can manage getting washing from the machine to the dryer. Though lately, more often than not, I do it.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

and there's no way I'm going to do it.

Why? I started, just to be helpful, and received close instruction, shirts upside down so they dry under the arms, trousers right way up, with the zip open and facing the sun, so the waistband dries, etc. etc.
Mind, if I empty the washing machine and hang it out while she is out she still goes down the line tweaking everything and tutting.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

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