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It's a bit unclear who owns what. There's a little alley behind our garden (which I think now ends at the panelled fence, formerly it was the chain link fence) and the gardens behind (where the trellis is) and in this alley is where the developer planted the trees.
I think that if we attached trellis to the fence, no one who cared would notice.
It's tricky, there are a lot of boxes to tick - ideally, nice-looking, evergreen, fast-growing.
I think maybe we should just plant the laurel for ease and speed, and then more interesting plants beneath and between.
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You’d be surprised how quickly a native hedge will grow. Will have missed the boat for bare root this year. But I’d go mixed native: Holly, hornbeam, beech purple/green, hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, field maple, Dog Rose, Wild privet. All year interest mix of evergreen, deciduous and wildlife friendly.
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Laurel, I am guessing you mean Cherry Laurel, would certainly do the job. My one word of caution is that without a lot of constant pruning it will get very large at an alarming rate, with the leaves only appearing towards the top of each branch.
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I take it you can’t attach trellis to that fence and grow stuff up it?