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[archerellie3425]

ok, what im after is some cuttings or seeds or ideas on a fast growing, tall, above 6ft, evergreen screening plant, to grow along the end of my garden around 12mtr wide, tree, plant etc, etc............
I have a large range of seeds available for swap veg and flowers.
Any ideas?

[Two_Sheds]

Bamboo?

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[Glutton4...]

There's a company that advertise a very fast-growing Willow screening plant. They advertise in several magazines, but I can't remember their name, sorry!

...and it just dawned on me that you said evergreen - so I'm not much use really!

Good luck!

[flowerofshona]

How about a russian vine !! lovely scent but a very fast grower !! you just need to keep cutting it back and its fine

[archerellie3425]

The bamboo was my first choice but cost too much , the willow looks great as well as the russian vine, funds are very limited, does anyone have any cuttings from a russian vine i could maybe swap for seeds?

[flowerofshona]

Will have a look later as i keep mine in a pot to keep it under control

[Two_Sheds]

Russian Vine is an absolute thug (and not evergreen either). It will take over your garden, cover your house and your neighbour's house ! The suckers come up everywhere. It is very similar to bindweed.

Research it carefully before you plant it.

[Two_Sheds]

You can plant yourself a living willow fedge (fence hedge hybrid).
This would need regular tying in and pruning, but it grows fast.

[Two_Sheds]

Escallonia is a good, quick-ish hedge, easy to prune and has pink flowers. Stuart Holders Escallonia Nursery, North Devon

It is easy to grow from cuttings - and cheap if you can beg them from neighbours or friends, or Freecycle.

[snohare]

I second what Two Sheds said - it is invasive like nothing else I've ever seen, once it gets going ! How much of your old age do you want to spend pruning ?
Don't ask me for names, but what I did when I had the same sort of problem was I went around looking at municipal and industrial estate landscape planting, and took some cuttings of various things in early spring as they got going. Made a stingy Aberdonian very happy, it worked a treat...and yes, it probably was escallonia now I come to think of it.
Meantime, why not plant runner beans along a wireline, just until the wee cuttings get going up to a decent height ? You could have the cuttings growing faster in a greenhouse while the beans screen over the summer, then stick the seedlings into nitrogen enriched soil at the end of the growing season.

[Victoria26]

I got willow screening in my last garden to use as a temporary fence. My neighbour bought the cheaper reed screening and painted it green.

You could always do that to cover the area just now while you plant?