I'm having a load of cypress trees removed

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

They were here when we bought the house over a decade ago and I've always disliked them but haven't had the will to do anything about them until now. I thought I was going to regain about 1.5m of flowerbed, but because I have an odd shaped boundary I hadn't realised that part of my front garden had two rows of cypress, so I've gained a massive amount of space. It's triangular with about 1.5m as expected at the pointy end but about 4m (possibly 5m, I'm not great at estimating) at the wide end. My front garden looks bloody HUGE, mostly because of so much extra light coming in. I'm not sure what to put in there now.

I think the previous owners probably put them in for privacy but I'm the last house on a cul de sac so there isn't a huge need for an impenetrable hedge.

Google view for your delectation. The red lines are my boundary, the yellow is my next door neighbours boundary with the road and the blue is where I thought my boundary with the road was.

That looks like it might be a dog rose, it's very pretty. I will add it to my shortlist. I'm allergic to rose hip oil so won't be making anything with rose hips, but I'm sure the wildlife will enjoy them.

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Whatever you decide to plant I'd recommend giving the soil a good rest first and adding some good well rotted farm yard manure to get done goodness back into it before anything else goes in

Wildflower meadow?

I'd get some mixed native hedging in there, with a few standard fruit trees in the mix.

My short length of privet isn’t any faster than my hawthorn, and infinitely nicer to cut. I get irritated by the suckers but that wouldn’t be such a problem in a more cultivated part of the garden

Size and colour of the roses suggests Rosa rugosa. Commonly used as a hedge. Good for greenfinches

We do get greenfinches and a fair few others. This despite our cats living here too!4r5