Quick growing hedgeing/shrubs?

[merlin]

Hi, I want to plant some sort of screening/hedging around the kid's trampoline.

Preferably, evergreen - ideally quick growing!!!

ALso, some other quick growing shrubs to dot around the boundary fences to give some privacy.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks.

I beg you not to consider leylandii.

Other people will be along with constructive suggestions in a min.

But remember, quick growing can mean rampant ugly thug which will take £000s off the value of your property.

What about willow screening (ie a woven willow fence)?

Def not Leylandi Cat - don't worry - don't need anything quite as big.

Willow screen sounds a nice idea - do you know how long they last for?

Well, just to state the obvious, if it grows quickly to start with, it will grow even more quickly once it's got established and happy, which means a lot of work for you keeping it to the right size, keeping its roots in the right place, etc.

On the other hand, keeping them well watered and well fed, and putitng them into a well prepared planting hole will make a difference to how quickly anything gets established.

I have a trellis with roses, clematis and ivy grown up it (choice of previous owner of house), and in summer, it really is pretty solid.

THis was what I had in mind earlier sorry had to run.

Not living, not see through, not ghastly.

Thank you for not inflicting more leylandii on our troubled nation (!)

Instant fence panel and you can ramble clematis etc up it a la Grendelsmum