Can I plant Beech hedging and a maple tree in a North (or maybe N/E) facing garden?

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Well, my parents have a beech hedge planted in a position where gets buffeted by bitter northeast winds from time to time.

They lost a few, and whilst the plants were young I think they had some sort of protection around them until established. Looks brilliant now - and yes 3-4feet is fine so long as you're brutal about trimming etc each year. So it's a risk but it can be done.

Maple doesn't sound such a good bet though

we have both a beech hedge (one side of our back garden) and a maple tree (in the corner of next door's garden, next to ours), and that's in a NE facing space. It's jolly windy too - we live on a windy yorkshire hill top. All very established - 40+ years old. I don't know how difficult it would be to get things to take, but they will thrive in NE winds!

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We have a beautiful thriving acer palmatum (which is a maple of sorts?) in an E facing back yard but it is sheltered by 6' walls to the E and N.

Soil here is quite fertile, but this was planted in a raised bed on top of concrete with only a tiny access hole to the soil underneath - it took it a while to get going but once it did it was just fine. Might you be able to shelter yours temporarily while it established itself?

(Have just added pic of lovely acer - in unlovely back yard! - to my profile. It's about 15 years old now I think - was a sliver of about 4' when it was planted)

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When the beech hedge is nice and thick you could use that as your maple shelter

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