sawney bean wrote:

"landscapeadvice" wrote in message
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Hi, more info is needed, let any body know where you are then we
can
help. Steve.

I am near Birmingham and need some instant cover up to a height of
4m
and enough trees to cover a span of 6 m. Evergreens are best for me

There's a good case for Western red cedar (thuja plicata): it makes
an excellent evergreen hedge, and unlike the Leylandii abortion you
can trim it to size, and it won't annoy neighbours. Grows a foot or
more a year.

Try all the nurseries in your local Yellow Pages, and get the size
and price which suit you. But note that you'll pay quite a bit if you
want them big enough to provide instant screening; and as a rule
smaller trees are easier to establish as well as cheaper. I don't
know the prices, but, at a wild guess, I reckon you'd have to pay
well over sixty quid each for ten-footers (if you can even get them),
and you'd probably need about ten.

Flea's suggestion of Quercus ilex is good, too. I don't know how they
respond to being cut into old wood, though -- if they don't like it,
you'll have a problem starting a hedge with ten-foot plants.

Better prices come from forestry tree specialists such as (chosen at
random to start you off):
http://www.tree-shop.co.uk/index.asp

--
Mike.