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Title: A Gardening Question
Post by: auf_wiedersehen_pet on April 10, 2009, 09:54:23: 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.
Title: Re: A Gardening Question
Post by: blackbeltbob on April 10, 2009, 10:10:55: lalandi ones
Title: Re: A Gardening Question
Post by: auf_wiedersehen_pet on April 10, 2009, 10:57:57: Quote from: blackbeltbob on April 10, 2009, 10:10:55
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.
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Post by: landy_bug on April 10, 2009, 12:01:26: what about bamboo or yew tree if any help not know much either bout gardening
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Post by: bravo669 on April 10, 2009, 12:11:52: yew trees tend to block out the light alot and kill off anything growing underneath.
how about some quick growing willow?
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Post by: landy_bug on April 10, 2009, 12:15:26: good idea i was thinking of that but forgot the name
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Post by: Banjo on April 10, 2009, 13:49:41: How about a nice row of old landy's :D.
Title: Re: A Gardening Question
Post by: auf_wiedersehen_pet on April 10, 2009, 14:18:56: Quote from: Banjo on April 10, 2009, 13:49:41
How about a nice row of old landy's :D.

But that's the view my neighbours already have!
Title: Re: A Gardening Question
Post by: muddyjames on April 10, 2009, 14:29:13: 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.