Cotoneaster franchetii is quite quick growing and can be trained to whatever shape you like. Mine is a dense shrub but a friend has trained hers into a standard tree. The flowers are a magnet for bees and it is covered in berries in winter, that is, until the birds eat them!
Evergreen Photinia can be bought as a standard/pleached. Your space at the back of your raised beds looks quite narrow? The roots of whatever tree you plant might invade your raised beds, can’t help feeling you would be better with a higher fence or some decorative trellising...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
A lot depends on your conditions - if you're in a cold, windy wet area, you need to take that into account. Likewise if it's the opposite. Are you intending to fill the gap right across where the reed screen is? The tightness of the bed is certainly quite restrictive so you'd need to choose carefully. I'd go for something like pyracantha. It can be clipped tightly, and even though they like a sunny site best, they're quite accomodating. Alternatively, some extra trellising on the fence as suggested, and a decent climber which you can tie in to get good year round cover.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Are you intending to fill the gap right across where the reed screen is? The tightness of the bed is certainly quite restrictive so you'd need to choose carefully. I'd go for something like pyracantha. It can be clipped tightly, and even though they like a sunny site best, they're quite accomodating.
Alternatively, some extra trellising on the fence as suggested, and a decent climber which you can tie in to get good year round cover.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...