Quick growing tree as privacy screen

[minnie mum]

Sounds like you are in the business? I work in a nursery.

I am having a hard time figuring out why OP would want to plant all one thing along the fence, you know? Getting vase shaped deciduous growing trees and mixing them with evergreens would be better but then again a wall of green does not sound appealing to me to look at.

But that is just me as there are tons of options out there.

Nope, just a very avid gardener for decades. We've lived in a lot of homes that I've had to landscape from scratch.

I agree with you about a mixed planting. Unless you're going for a very minimalist modern look, I think using both evergreens and deciduous trees looks much more natural. We can grow a columnar oak up here that looks good even in winter, since the brown leaves stay on the tree until spring. And some of the beeches like the purple and weeping narrow varieties would look good too ( if they will grow well where the OP lives).

But I'm also one of those who dislikes seeing big expanses of empty fence and nothing but grass in front of it. I start itching to put shrubs and trees in there to soften things up. I tell DH that it is my mission to reduce our square footage of lawn each year. He doesn't mind - less for him to mow.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Nope, just a very avid gardener for decades. We've lived in a lot of homes that I've had to landscape from scratch.

I agree with you about a mixed planting. Unless you're going for a very minimalist modern look, I think using both evergreens and deciduous trees looks much more natural. We can grow a columnar oak up here that looks good even in winter, since the brown leaves stay on the tree until spring. And some of the beeches like the purple and weeping narrow varieties would look good too ( if they will grow well where the OP lives).

But I'm also one of those who dislikes seeing big expanses of empty fence and nothing but grass in front of it. I start itching to put shrubs and trees in there to soften things up. I tell DH that it is my mission to reduce our square footage of lawn each year. He doesn't mind - less for him to mow.

Got it and agree with you. The issue I have with planting 1 variety is that if something goes wrong you lose the whole crop.

I am into perennials that promote the butterflies. We are selling house #4 and I will have to start over again eventually...ugh.

It is really hard to offer suggestions without a picture to the OP.