Please help me buy some flowering hedges.

[SunshineCake]

Ideally fully grown would be 3 meters. I would like it to have flowers and I am prepared to pay a premium to get as near to fully grown as possible rather than the 9cm pots I seem to be finding.

Clematis Montana will grow up a hedge pretty quickly and give spring interest. You could partner it with laurel, which is evergreen and fast growing and can be trimmed.

Pyracantha is indeed thorny, but if flowers beautifully, and has lovely red berries in autumn.

Bees love it, birds love it. It's not all bad about it.

Ready made hedging

I wouldn't go for camellia because of it being ericaceous lovely as it is!

And fancy having all those petals to clean up after it has flowered. The flowers don't last that long either.

Camellias are pretty when they flower and evergreen, but fussy and they do nothing for birds and bees and wildlife.

You are all so knowledgable. Most of it is going over my head but I'm making notes and very appreciative. Thank you.

We went to a place today which I think is a charity. It employs adults with learning difficulties so we wanted to support them plus I don't think dh would dare let us go home empty handed again. We bought four pots with six iirc Lily type plants. Not really a hedge but will give some screening plus a largish red leaf plat which looks more like a hedge and I can't remember the name. I also bought two bedding plants and a pack of bulbs as they are my name.

Fences are in place but they aren't on our side so I am not sure if we are allowed to attach trellises near the top to give more privacy. One is very small and lower than I am tall. We've planted half a dozen climbing roses there but they are slow growing.

Bluntness100 that hedge is stunning.

Camellias don't flower for that long though. We have a camellia in our garden and it flowers in April. It is rather dull for the rest of the year

Bamboo is fast growing, OP, and you can grow things up through it. It's not particularly dense but it does give a screen.