Statley trees

crackcrack30

My house is in a field, there is good road frontage to one side, (200 metres approx) i was planning on planting a few trees (spaced) along the road and fencing them off seperatly with fence/mesh wire ect . I will probably stay back 6-8 yards from the ditch, what trees would you recommend, would like to see some of the beauty in my life time:rolleyes:....Also they would blind off a quarry in the far distance... oak or beech i suppose?

PatQfarmer

crackcrack30 wrote: »

My house is in a field, there is good road frontage to one side, (200 metres approx) i was planning on planting a few trees (spaced) along the road and fencing them off seperatly with fence/mesh wire ect . I will probably stay back 6-8 yards from the ditch, what trees would you recommend, would like to see some of the beauty in my life time:rolleyes:....Also they would blind off a quarry in the far distance... oak or beech i suppose?

All depends how long you are planning on living:D
Hard to beat a good oak or beech, but you'd want to be very young now to see them as "stately trees".
I overplanted beech, sycamore and ash along a roadway and thinned them out as time went on. 15 years later, I have a nice belt of trees, 10m apart that will become as you want in my children's lifetime, I hope!
We don't really plant for ourselves, but for the future.
Best of luck.

Oldtree

A Lime avenue would be nice, could be underplanted with dogwood.

For speedy blockage then poplar or willow.

but over a ten year period trees that would also do the job would be birch, ash, alder, sorbus. All would look good if formativly pruned correctly.