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Tree or large shrub please

stuchersstuchers Posts: 3
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I need a large shrub or tree to grow to 10metres to hide a neighbours' window. Have been looking at Prunus or Photinia Red Robin but would need to standardise these - can I do this i.e. take off the bottom branches leaving one trunk or do you have any other suggestions please.  Needs to be evergreen.

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Ten metres? Are you absolutely sure?
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Invicta2Invicta2 Posts: 663

    No guarantee Photinia would reach 10m , that's 33 ft in proper measurement. With regular training you could train Prunus lusitanica to a single stem, and it could reach that height. If you live in a sheltered area there are quite a few evergreens that could reach that height such as Pittosporum tenuifolium, Laurus nobilis and Ligustrum lucidum and be trained to a single stem.

  • stuchersstuchers Posts: 3

    Yes, WillDB,absolutely sure ! need it to hide a telegraph pole too.

  • Katherine WKatherine W Posts: 410

    A 10 m evergreen tree in the UK?!

    Maybe a conifer?

    I think anything else would be too iffy for hardiness or really slow.

    Not too mention that it would be likely to flop over in wind storms... fast growing things are always flimsy.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Portugal Laurel would do itimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I remember last year there was a member with a similar issue who thought she needed to plant a hedge the same height as her neighbours upstairs windows. But when she posted pics it turned out that, because they were a fair distance away, she could get away with something much lower.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    Regardless of what you plant it will take years for anything to grow that tall. Even the dreaded leylandii would take about 15 years I would reckon. Can you wait that long?

     

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