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6metre screen
LisaLop1
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Hi All , Newbie here but would love some advice please . We have just moved to a property where we need to create a screen of an eventual height of 6.5metres (offices at the bottom of garden). Its 10 metres wide. I'm impatient so want it screened now but also on a budget ! We had looked at fishpole bamboo but don't believe that'll reach the heights. Google tells me that Laurels of that height would take up 5foot of garden & really don't want conifers . Wondered if to buy high but less of them to spread but break up the skyline .
What could you suggest please ? We have a budget of £800.
Oh and very novice gardener too !
Thank you Very Much
Lisa :-)
What could you suggest please ? We have a budget of £800.
Oh and very novice gardener too !
Thank you Very Much
Lisa :-)
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Do you want to screen everything for total privacy or just want to be able to sit/eat/play outside without being spied on? How long is your garden? Get a piece of paper and, to scale, draw a line from where your main activity will be to the top of the office block and then work out how high a tree would need to be if planted further in to your plot.
You may well find a standard fence or hedge the standard, acceptable 2m high along your back boundary would give you a lot of privacy and then just one or two trees that get to 5 or 6m high and wide but have an airy canopy and less height will give you all the privacy you need and allow for plenty of other planting or features.
Am so clueless :-D
100 feet leaves plenty of space for planting trees within your boundary to break up the sight lines and you can go for a matching pair or two or Three different ones to spread the interest - form, blossom, berries, bark colour, spring, summer and autumn foliage colour etc. You can make seating areas underneath or plant shade lovers.
A decent 2m high fence along the back boundary will give you a backdrop for planting more interesting plants - shrubs, grasses, climbers, espaliered fruit trees....
A lot also depends on which way your garden faces and what kind of soil you have - sandy, loamy, clay, silt, stony, dry, moist, acid, alkaline. If that list baffles you, have a read of this - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=179
As they are offices I expect people work rather than sit and look out the window and doubt they are there after 5 or 6pm or at weekends but if you feel exposed how about a small group of silver birch either near your fence or as Obelixx suggests planted further into the garden between where you sit and the windows that bother you.
They are fast growing but whatever you plant it's going to take a few years to reach 6m
They are deciduous but then you probably won't be using the garden over the winter.