On Apr 4, 6:29*am, stinker wrote:
Hi everyone, this is my first post here. So I'm sorry if my questions
have been answered a million times before.

At the end of this month I'll be moving to Port Mulgrave. It's a tiny
little place between Staiths and Runswick Bay. My new home is situated
quite close to the edge of the cliffs with no wind break, what so
ever.
I don't want to erect a wind break, either. It'll spoil the view for
ourselves and the neighbours.
The garden its self is about one third of an acre but it also comes
with a padock of about the same size. The garden has been landscaped
with a beautiful large pond and a few small trees dotted about. The
trees are maybe three feet high.
But I want to grow some fast growing trees and I was thinking of silver
birch but I'm not sure how that will fair in the high winds. I have to
say, I haven't seen any birch in that area. I don't know whether that
is a clue to the success of such a species in that enviroment.
Also, does anyone know of a decent garden centre in that are? I'll be
wanting plenty of advice soon, as I'm not a gardener. I'm a wonnabe.

Thanks in advance.
Stinker

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stinker

A couple of things........Port Mulgrave could be on the moon for all I
know, so something a bit more specific as to location would be
helpful. Since I looked it up, I found it's on the coast of Yorkshire
and photos of the area show a very open, somewhat rocky and windswept
promintory. While I'm no authority on the area by any means, that
would lead me to believe that establishing large, fast growing shade
trees would be problematic - if they could grow easily or well in that
type of situation, chances are they'd already be present. Birches of
all types are very prone to wind damage, so they'd not be on the top
of my list. I'd suggest you wait until you are settled there and ask
neighbors or view what DOES grow well in that location. There is also
a rec.gardens forum specifically addressed to those that reside in the
UK......you will likely get far better suggestion there.

And my last suggestion is that caution needs to be exercised when
considering "fast growing" trees - in general, trees that put on
growth quite rapidly also often have structural issues that make them
undesirable for very windy sites.