The Wolf out of the Window

The view from Katy's window has bothered me ever since the reno's were finished. Her old window faced west towards the neighbours, but the view was of the wall of their house with some foliage into between. Katy's current window still faces west, overlooks the back of their wall water feature (very little foliage) and straight onto their back deck as seen in this poorly taken photo.

Now I've been pondering what to do about it. The difficulties faced include distance to the fence being only 1.5m, a very shady spot, on the possums main thoroughfare and the only direct sunlight occurs for a short portion of the afternoon.

One minute I'm thinking of a vertical wall garden, the next a deciduous tree, followed by some sort of screening or perhaps garden art. Of course I've ummed and ahhed for a fair while now (the reno's finished over a year ago!)

Finally I made a decision based on a fair amount of plant research. The plant of choice was the -

Syringa Wolfii - commonly known as Wolf's Lilac

A deciduous shrub which grows to 2m. Has clusters of mauve flowers that have a beautiful fragrance.  Currently our little shrub looks like this....

Hopefully it will fill the void, without blocking too much sun eventually looking something like this....only time will tell...