A Gardening Question

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

I'm looking for some thin, wispy trees to give some privacy by a fence. They need to grow to about 20 foot maximum - in a fairly short space of time. Decidous/evergreen is unimportant.

I know nothing about gardening - anybody suggest a suitable tree.

[blackbeltbob]

lalandi ones

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

lalandi ones

Leylandii can grow up to 75 feet - too tall for me.

I'm not after anything conifer(ish). I don't need the privacy to be a solid block, something thin which sways in the wind would be good.

[landy_bug]

what about bamboo or yew tree if any help not know much either bout gardening

[bravo669]

yew trees tend to block out the light alot and kill off anything growing underneath.
how about some quick growing willow?

[landy_bug]

good idea i was thinking of that but forgot the name

[Banjo]

How about a nice row of old landy's  :D.

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

How about a nice row of old landy's  :D.

But that's the view my neighbours already have!

[muddyjames]

does it have to get to 20ft? How about 7-8ft? My thinking is get some willow screening and use those big stapples and stapple it to the fence or make a fence from it and then grow a rose or something up it? That is what I have done and looks lurvely. :-)

Also you get to see the rose and the neighbour gets to see the nice fence. It all sways a bit in the wind too.