Growing plants/trees in a pot

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I have planted a number of trees along my back garden fence as we have a major issue with privacy from the house behind us. I'm still left with a gap where I won't be able to plant directly into the ground so wondered if it would be possible to grow something quite tall - around 12 ft or more - in a large container?

If anyone has any suggestions would be very grateful as have googled but can't find any useful advice!

You can grow a tree in a large container. Just go to a large tree nursery and there are endless huge trees in containers.

It will tend to dry out very quickly and sap all the nutrients out of the soil - but that's doable with feed and water.

Also as it gets bigger (5years or so) it will suffer unless it's root pruned and that's a bugger to do with a big unweildy tree. But you could just get a new one.

Or maybe you could put up a trellis panel and have some vigourous climbers up it from pots?