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Need a Quick Growing Screening hedge
digit101
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Hi, unfortunately a large warehouse has applied for planning permission next door 
I need a quick growing tree hide the view. I estimate the warehouse will be 12 - 15m in height.
The area it will be built next to is a woodland however in winter the warehouse would be very visible as its only a couple trees deep in parts.
I was thinking of black poplar trees? I know its not evergreen but it grows very quick and stays narrow?
Are there any other trees you would suggest?
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Any chance of a photo digit? That helps for ideas.
As pansyface suggests - planting soemthing smaller but closer to your house is the best solution if that's possible. It can make a garden more interesting when it's divided up anyway, so that may be the best way forward.
A huge hedge can be imposing and draw attention to the very area you want distracted from. If you had another focus elsewhere, that often works better. A specimen tree on the other side, feature bed with a statue, a small pond etc. etc
Those two ideas combined might do the trick.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Black poplar is not narrow, it quickly broadens with age. I'd go for prunus cerasifera 'Nigra' which has fine twiggy growth and it makes a good screen despite being deciduous. Pretty in flower (early) and with a lovely rich purple leaf. As suggested, something shorter and a bit closer would work - pittosporums, photinia, portugal laurel, if you want to go for non-native, hollies and yew for native.
H-C
The warehouse would be around 25m from woodland, but it is more the scale of the warehouse its approx 7 acres and on an incline.