There is nothing like a tree!

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Any advice please? We have cleared our garden about 70feet long 30 wide and it is now turfed over.
Arguments are ensuring about how to make it interesting as neither of us are gardeners, we also have a neighbour in the house at the end of the garden who is very uninhibited and we would like to screen him and his floodlit activities out.
We've agree that a few trees would be nice, but which ones? Would prefer native trees really but they are so expensive unless they are minuscule.
Was thinking of silver birch as am not keen on evergreens but this may be an opinion founded on total ignorance.
Any ideas advice would be very welcome

Fruit trees would be lovely....but either way, here's a link to some lovely trees of all kinds which are all native to the UK and so are the best thing in terms of the environment...for pollination etc.

www.edenproject.com/learn/for-everyone/10-british-trees-to-grow-in-your-garden

My choice would be flowering cherries, Robina trees and Acers.

Silver birch is lovely but won't screen him out - you need evergreen for that really. There are some good ones, Thuja for example, better behaved than ye olde Leyland conifer. Or holly, but it grows slowly.

I take it you've ruled out a viewing platform and charging people to come and watch the guy

We just put in about 15 trees, garden slightly smaller than yours - it didn't cost a lot as we went for 'clearance' ones and we have a brilliant, very long standing nursery near here that has thousands of enormous trees, very reasonable prices - talking around £20-25 for most of them, and they are already about 10ft tall.

I got two birch, an elm, two crabapple, cherry, apple, pear, walnut (lovely), cercis (that one was very expensive though!), Chinese hawthorn, normal hawthorn, plum...the more the merrier!

Also there are a lot of whitebeam trees round here, they are stunning at this time of year though like most deciduous, won't provide winter screening.

Silver birch are lovely. Could you have several trees? Flowering cherry are fantastic and add colour early in the year so I'd want one or two of those too.

Also if you have a wall or fence at the end, could you add some trellis to the top, and grow an evergreen climber (some sort of honeysuckle or clematis) on that? Might help at a lower level.

Great suggestions.thankyou.
Re viewing platform - think people would be demanding a refund it's the antithesis of the diet coke ad I'm afraid - but did make me laugh!!
Where is this nursery - sounds perfect ?

We're down in Kent. There must be others. It's like tree Heaven, you can just wander about and choose loads of them and they deliver it all to your house.

PM me if you're near and I'll give you details

You could put a beech in front of the man, it keeps its dead leaves in the winter, and these fall off when the new ones start growing.

Most large nurseries will have a bargain basement section, all those trees that are last season's that they want to get rid of for new specimens...we have one near us. Go visit a few and see what they have. Look for nurseries not garden centres.