Fast growing evergreen needed.

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Any suggestions please?

I have a S/W facing garden and a neighbour who will not repair his fence. So I have decided to try fast growing evergreen. He can damage them but they will grow back..

Half the 'fence' line will be in full sun and the rest shaded by trees. I would ideally like it to grow to 8ft very quickly. Mix and match is fine. I need to plant 40ft ASAP.

All suggestions welcomed and any experiences of similar you may have had.

Thanks.

Cherry or Japanese laurel are fast growing and evergreen

Evergreen ivy. I love mine, is easy to cut back.

If you want a climber stick some winter flowering jasmine in alongside a clematis montana. They are beasts

Not a climber... There is partially no fence and anything I put up he destroys. (yes... He's nasty minded) so standalone. Oh and sturdy _ anything too bendy doesn't survive the broom that gets used to snap/bend/uproot...

Do laurels grow quickly?
Red Robin looks pretty
Anything prickly would be good actually
Anything dense growing.

I am after quick growing. Thick growth. Not overly expensive. Can survive being hacked at from the other side. Gives me privacy.

Thanks for the ideas so far.

Cherry laurels are not prickly, but grows at the speed of lightening. Several different kinds, though.

If possible, I would put up a metal fence a foot into your garden and put climbers on it. Something like this, but with a climber that covers the entire net.

Remember that nothing that grows quickly to 8ft is going to stay at 8ft.

If you follow madambee's suggestion, Lonicera henryii is a very vigorous evergreen climbing honeysuckle.

It doesn’t sound like any plant will be safe from your neighbour IMO.

I think your only option is to put up cameras (then use them to do him for criminal damage) and a thick, sturdy metal fence well inside your bit of the boundary so not encroaching in his space at all like madambee suggested.

A really sturdy material like rebar or something dug deep into the ground so it’s unmovable and unbreakable.

Then a nice plant in front of it on your side.

I don’t know about honeysuckle Henryii but I have honeysuckle serotina and believe me, if mine is anything to do go by, if you are wanting a fast growing, dense, luscious flowery thicket (as I am) you will be majorly disappointed!

Mine is a few years old and growing very, very slowly indeed.

I was looking at mixed hedging recently. You can buy the bare root plants now really inexpensively - google mixed native hedging - and get a hedgerow that's great for wildlife with berries etc. Plus some like hawthorn has a lot thorns. It wouldn't be super-fast growing but I was thinking of adding intermittent plants like buddleiah that would spring up fast. I already have a red robin & that really sprang up.

I don’t know about honeysuckle Henryii but I have honeysuckle serotina They're totally different species with different levels of vigour. I've just cut back my henryii - the trunk was 6 inches diameter. Think of the difference between a wisteria and a sweet pea. And of course serotina isn't evergreen.

I have Lonicera japonica and even in a fairly small pot it grows about a foot a week, and has covered a 20 foot fence.

Oh and it's evergreen with very thick foliage.