Beginner Gardening: Ugly Neighbors, 1 by trioadastra

trioadastra wrote:
We have a small apartment building kiddie corner to our house, and our back yards share 85 feet of wooded area. They use theirs for a parking lot, while I have a woodland garden. I need something to hide their cars from view, and also keep the tenants from walking their dogs in my garden in the winter. (This happened so many times last year, I threatened to shoot them...) The property line runs about 3 feet behind the large cedars, so they only have about 1 -2 feet of wooded area. I would like to plant a bunch of vines, and fasten large 'trellises' for them to climb on... maybe posts with wire strung between them. A fence isn't an option because we sunk $1000 into a surveyor last spring just to find out the lot lines are all screwed up and it would take much more $ to figure it all out. (But I do know where the line splitting the parking lot from my yard is, just can't prove it...) Anyway, this is such a tough area because it's in full shade all day, and I don't have room for any more trees. I really need something vertical, fast growing, that leaves a winter skeleton, and won't take over my woodland garden. There are tons of ferns covering the line, and I don't want to displace them either. Can anyone help??