I have an 80 x 100 x 80 x 100 foot chain link fence that is 5 foot high. This is inside 4 acres so no neighbours to worry about. I want to plant evergreen vines and climbers. It's darned ugly right now. Soil is very sandy and stones. I am there one week a month. One side is forest, one side is morning to late morning sun, one side is all sun and one side bit of both. The morning/late morning sun side and the completely all sun side l want covered as its on the road side and l want that bit of privacy. Prefer fast growing, flowers and berries, not much maintenance. I have been an Alberta Canada gardener for 30 years and so am a newbie for the BC coast gardening. So i'll need help on when is best to plant. Here we cannot do anything until end May beginning June!! So this is my first posting and l don't want much do l!!!! Look forward to fellow gardeners and experts to help me Kind Regards Beverley
Fall best time to plant hardy stock on coast. New plants installed in spring and left to themselves liable to die in drought of following summer, except for things like spring bulbs etc. that are dormant during summer. Unless property too high up and cold coastal dryland native Lonicera hispidula might work. Grows with madrona and salal on bluffs and clifftops near salt water. Foliage semi-persistent. Flowers small and pink, fruiting not massed but individual clusters can be noticeable.
Depending on what kind they are. Perhaps most are actually characteristic of damp places, familiar local examples canary red grass and common reed - both wetland indicators, although the reed grass appears to be not as restricted as the reed. In local gardens the main tall grasses are Miscanthus spp. - east Asian grasses native to monsoon climates - and giant reed, which is so fond of moisture it is sold by aquatics specialists. And is a pest in California wetlands. None of these maintain foliar integrity through the winter here. Even the Arundo.
Thanks all for your input. I do have some lovely natural grasses as l tend to not cut all the grass to the ground. I prefer nature and the deer and other animals to 'nest' amongst it. I will keep you posted in what l planted and when.
If you were to undertake an identification exercise with the grasses on your place you might find that many of them, if not most were actually introduced Eurasian species growing there as invasive weeds.
