Evergreen trees or climbers for screening

[Pinkfizzed]

Please suggest trees or climbers that are evergreen and dense and will screen my garden which backs up a street quite closely. Picture attached and I am facing west / north west.
Don't mind spending on partly grown trees or climbers with spread to get some element of instant screening if that is feasible. Thank you for your suggestions.

I'm not sure what has been planted already on the border but it is barely growing.

Evergreen Jasmine. Fantastic plant! Delightful scent and flowers in May/June. Green all year round. I have four of them.

Charella gardens do mature ones. You’ll need unwind them off the bamboo cane they come on, and tie them into the trellis.

For trees, olive trees are good too.

I have the Jasmine as a climber and a line of olive trees in front. Looks lovely.

Then you can put lavender, hydrangea strong Annabelle and some cosmos along the front. Cosmos and lavender like full sun but they may work. My lavender has done fine. I have same walls as yours north etc

Thank you. Yes- that side of the garden will get a decent amount of sun since it will face east and south. I have star jasmine elsewhere but it hasn't grown much on a trellis. Is there anything denser you can recommend as well @PlopSofa? The other plants you mentioned won't grow very tall, would they? I do want some sort of a fruit tree somewhere too.

I really need to figure the screening first since whatever is on the trellis is shedding leaves. and then see what I do on the inside. Everything seems to take much longer than I anticipated (years than months). I have an occasional gardener to help and he and I don't always seem to align.

Climbing hydrangea, Chilean potato plants, Kiwi Jenny, sollya heterophylla (climbing bluebell) - all fast growing and all with 3m or above final height.

My jasmines have done very well. I can’t explain why yours isn’t growing but it’s a shame. Mine have taken off.

olive trees grow huge. You can cut them though. They will provide screening.

Evergreen passion flower. Grows like a weed in spring and summer! I put some in a dead corner last spring, and by summer's end, I was trimming it back. Gives fabulous exotic/alien looking flowers, and some will form interesting fruits later.

On my laptop it says the photo has 'sensitive content' - not sure what it doesn't like about your garden OP.😂

There are trees on the other side of the fence, so they will act as a decent screen soon enough. The small conifers you have now look like dwarf varieties to me, so they aren't going to leap into action any time soon.

Do you like the appearance of the horizontal slats of the fence? To my mind, they make the fence look wider and lower than it actually is, so maybe you could attach some trellis or screening to it, which would make it a bit more attractive, and you could then grow some climbers up it.

@thatsawhopperthatlemon i saw that when I loaded it up!

Oh you naughty line of olive trees you! I thought to myself 😆

Not really!! Thought it was rather odd! Ah well, the mysteries of picture censoring algorithms will surely provide me with lots of fun to think about tonight when I’m trying to sleep!

I know you say your star jasmine isn’t growing brilliantly, but we had quick, dense coverage from a winter jasmine.

I think OPs should give evergreen jasmines another go. Some are quite hardy but others less so. One of mine is a bit feeble which shows I guess they can differ from one to another. Give it some liquid fertiliser.

aonetimes it can be the soil or the position or the plant. But they really are terrific evergreen cover if you can get them growing. Real workhorse and once grown provides terrific cover.

I found the evergreen passion fruit natty during winter. It dies back hard and looks very spindly and worn. Doesn’t flower until late July/august.

I like the snowflake white passion flower best. Loves the sun and will cover a wall easily and produces the most beautiful white flowers. It’s not evergreen though but is truly show stopping.

purple solanum will go bananas. You’ll have to keep chopping it back. It’s prolific. We took ours out as it drove me nuts.

the white variety is nicer and a climber but needs tying in. Slower growing. Not as vigorous as the Jasmine evergreen climber.

You could try Halls honeysuckle. Again needs tying in. Amazing perfume in the summer. Evergreen.

I can't quite work out what you are trying to screen. Is that your garden at the front with the small conifers and is that where you want to put screening?
If yes is that your neighbour's garden behind with the pleached trees?
I have Photinias and Ceanothus* for screening in my garden. Both evergreen and the Photinias particularly can be chopped and shaped. I like them as multi stemmed trees so that I can underplant. Ceanothus can be a bit temperamental if you trim them too much but probably my favourite.
*Trewithin Blue is very fast growing and enormous.

Echo what a previous poster says about 'Chilean potato plants'....solanum. I got mine from Morrisons at £2 each. One purple, the white one (album) still flowering beautifully (mid November) as scrambles over garage roof. Cut back to about 5' later. I would plant holly, especially 'silver king's (female, so you get berries.....name misleading) or 'golden king's. Or two....the ultimate in excellence/taste. Not as slow growing as it is reputed to be, and you can cut right back if necessary and it will grow back green.

@Pinkfizzed I planted a cherry laurel last year and it’s already 6ft and provides us with good shelter from our neighbour who has a very low fence.

Are the neighbours trees deciduous? That’s not particularly helpful for winter screening!
I know very little about gardening but I have a jasmine which I presume is evergreen. It did very little for a year or so but then it took off and it is very, very dense. If you can train them straight up the fence on to trellis along the top they’ll do a great job.

Strawberry tree, evergreen & it's a nice tree

The windows of 2 bedrooms overlook the garden - If there is foliage on the slats of the fence then it would screen the windows (and the bedrooms) from being visible from the road in winter. That's what I am trying to screen. The trees growing on the other side of the fence are alas deciduous (planted but no one occupies that house at present). So they are shedding now and only provide screening in summer. Time to plant something on my side. Not v keen to change the horizontal slats if it turns out to be expensive. Just spent £600 getting a screening hedge planted in front (also had a mumsnet thread on that) and that will take at least 2 years to grow to screening height. I'm gearing up to spend on something which will give me decent, quick spread and evergreen foliage at the back. Will research all these suggestions- thank you.

Clematis armandii - grows really fast and flowers in very early spring (February here).

I have star jasmine elsewhere but it hasn't grown much on a trellis. Star jasmine (Trachelospermum) isn’t related to Jasmine (Jasminum) - they’re in different families.

Therefore you can’t assume that if “Star jasmine” won’t grow that it means an actual jasmine isn’t worth trying.

Decent, quick spread and evergreen foliage eh?

The trouble with those is that they don't know when to stop.

I fully agree with pp about evergreen passion flower. It will grow and grow once it takes off and has very good wall/trellis covering.

This might depend on where you live, but for an ugly spot down the back of the garden I threw down some nasturtium seeds in late Spring. Forgot al about them and lo and behold they turned into magnificent and prolific climber uppers and very colourful. They are leaf heavy, but for a cheap quick cover, these are great, in fact they are still blooming now, but they will die down soon.

A tip for filling in gaps or screening while things grow - hang small pots from the top eg ivy and Cool Wave trailing pansies in winter or nasturtiums in summer. Anything trailing that has very long stems so you can train them where you want.

If you put in Ivy your neighbours may come to hate you. I did.

Then finally it was taken because it destroyed the fence. The dust was indescribable.

Our ivy is holding the knackered fence up.😂

Thank you for all your suggestions.
I have now measured the fence - this is about 2m high and 10m wide. I ideally need to screen for about 1m above the fence (ie to a heigjt of 3m above ground) and a width of about 5m (the rest is screened on the side of the neighbour it backs onto). So

1. Either plant mature full standard trees - magnolia grandiflora could work
2. Train a climber up a trellis - perhaps Japanese honeysuckle. Which seems to grow quite quickly, and has a long flowering season.

Both options will need some investment, I know, if I need something that is fairly mature / provides instant cover and is evergreen.

The garden is small so I'm keen to avoid something that takes a lot of bed space.

What would you recommend between these 2 options?

Hopeful bump

A climber is the cheap and cheerful option and takes up the least space. Honeysuckle can get a bit messy looking and is prone to powdery mildew. It wouldn’t be my choice against that fence, especially as your style seems to be quite modern/urban/formal in that photo.

Magnolia grandiflora can grow huge! It’s quite slow growing and you can prune it to keep it small though. It will cost a small fortune to buy big enough plants to screen your garden. Slow growing is good in the long term for you but not if you want a quick fix, unless you have money to throw at it.