Texas Gardening: Help! Suggestions to hide this eyesore please., 1 by covenantgarden

covenantgarden wrote:
Our neighbor just installed this fence on his side of our chain link fence. He is not going to paint it. It's 2 feet from our fence at our back corner and touches our fence at the front corner. There's a very large gap between fences for weeds to grow, and the fence itself looks horrible. DH thinks we'll have to plant red-tip photinias in front of it to really hide it. Any other suggestions? Preferably something thick, evergreen and about 6-8' tall. I'd much rather plant something to hide it than build our own wood fence. I know it will take a while for something to grow that big, but I can probably hide it with cannas in the meantime. Part of the yard there gets mostly shade, another part gets midday/afternoon sun.