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.

Pleached trees?

Yes- looks like I need to shell out £££ for pleached / full standard trees. Please excuse me if I didn't get the terminology right- total gardening newbie here. I see magnolia at this height to cost between £500 and 600 minimum per tree. I need to see how many I will need. Given the cost, I need to be very sure about what I go with.

Are there other options of (definitely) evergreen, potentially flowering trees other than magnolia, that can also be obtained pleached? Thank you.

I'm guessing it might be easier to trim a climber to shape vs pruning multiple magnolia trees, though. I like the look of honeysuckle but have also read these may become invasive.

It depends on the height of the trees but keeping honeysuckle looking at its best would be more work than pruning trees IME as it would need doing more often, especially if you have to deal with mildew. Although you could just go for benign neglect and leave the honeysuckle to do what it wants.

Laurel, holly or photinia could be cheaper alternatives.

Magnolia grandiflora are very wide, spreading trees and grow very large, so I wouldn't bother with that one to be honest. Japanese honeysuckle is considered an invasive non-native species so I wouldn't bother with that one either, sorry.

Not sure about any other suggestions but Paramount Plants are very well known and have a wide selection of pleached trees so maybe look on their website.

@thatsawhopperthatlemon thank you. Yes- I have been looking at Paramount. Not a lot of options in pleached trees that are available at that height. Red hawthorn was a possibility but it comes up short.

Eucalyptus trees are beautiful and grow rapidly. They’re enormous when mature but if you prune them to the height you want they’re more like shrubs.

Don't much fancy eucalyptus. And don't they grow really tall + suck up quite a lot of ground water. The garden is quite small so I need something not quite so overpowering for its length.

I have an evergreen winter flowering Clematis that has pale creamy yellowish flowers

In a small garden you are going to have a 2m fence topped with a 1m trellis already, that's going to really dominate the space without the addition of greenery. If you plant any pleached tree, it won't stay at 3 metres, it will grow. I'd suggest that the trellis itself will distract the eye and act as a reasonable screen anyway, and that you might just as well plant something like a variegated ivy and wait for it to grow up to the trellis.

In the meantime, this year you could plant runner beans. They are very bushy with big leaves and do grow tall.

The fence is already there. And there is a trellis on the other side of the fence (neighbour's) which only has something deciduous planted so it doesn't screen for half the year. It's in London zone 2- so 'smaller' compared to most average gardens in the suburbs or outside London.

I'm not actually screening the house from the neighbour's, but from the street beyond their house, from which my first floor rooms are very visible.
It's just that I don't want eucalyptus, which will probably grow very tall very quick. Might go back to the climber idea.

@Thighdentitycrisis please can you share a picture of the clematis if that's ok? Thanks

Fatsia Japonica, then. Evergreen, beautiful glossy leaves and lend a tropical feel.

(Clematis are very temperamental and require support.)

This one?

https://www.hctrees.uk/products/feijoa-sellowiana-pleached?_pos=7&_sid=fb4f96e43&_ss=r

I’ve considered it for our backgarden.

Eucalyptus Dargo Plains grows to 5m. That’s an interesting one. My favourite of this family. Huge leaves.

also Japanese ligustrum only to 4-5m.

How about mimosa - or is that not dense enough to give proper screening? I would like decent foliage.

@Pinkfizzed
here’s a pic. Also in London. I think it’s called Jingle bells.

Forgot photo