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Thoughts / help.
I'd like to plant some evergreen trees at the bottom of my garden as
there are some 3 storey flats beyond that I'd like to screen off, just
to get a bit more privacy as I can see into them from the house. I
don't want to get all un-neighbourly, but would like to grow them to a
height of about 15 ft and manage them, not let them go out of control.
Can anyone point me in the direction of getting a better understanding
of what's involved, background reading etc, i.e. how big can you buy
young trees to plant, are there specialist gardening centres that
would do this for me (may require some drilling out of concrete) any
legal issues I need ot be aware of in case the neighbours get
unfriendly? There wont be a huge shadow thrown over their house or
anything as it would be just at the back of their garden.

Glad you are not my neighbour!

I'll be honest and say what more the polite folk round her wont say.

Fifteen feet? I think thats a bit excessive if you have neighbours of any
kind.
And how do you think you are going to "manage" them at fifteen feet?
Do you know whats involved in getting to the top of them to do that
"management"?

And it wont be possible to keep them there. growth of many such trees
cannot be completely capped, they will creep up , even five or six feet
ends up at ten or twelve over a period of years. Just my experience - I have
a whole avenue of these things running down the side of my drive ( no
neighbours by the way) and I would love to dig them out, but it will take a
major excavation and a couple of tractors to drag the b****** away - and
they are only 12 years old. .

Then the is the question of " not overshadowing the house" - whose house ,
theirs or yours?
Are you sure?

Have you looked at it from your neighbours garden?
How would you feel if the roles were reversed and they were in your house
and you were in theirs?

What about casting a shadow over their garden? Not to mention the fact that
you will leach all the goodness out of the soil and nothing will grow
beneath them. At fifteen feet, thats a lot of ground root and a lot of
distance which will be unusable ground.... and trees do not discriminate and
will not recognise that they are over the boundary line between you and your
neighbour.

Put up a fence.