Requesting the impossible ? What plant

Hi
I need a bush/tree ?
It would need to reach 3m high but no wider than 2m
Preferably evergreen
Silk tassel bush (garrya elliptica) would be ideal except for the size

Why, A six foot fence, at the back but the garden is higher than the houses below, so have to look at someones solar energy panels and rusted guttering

If I could get something just one metre higher it would be out of site

I have thought of extending the height of the fence with an additional metre of willow screening with a climber up it, but not sure if it is legal as laws state no fence higher than 2mts

One maintained Leylandii, possible I suppose

Any thought please

Jack McHammocklashing

 

Is that a local by-law or just the general 8ft law on hedges and fences? If its the latter, remember that there is ambiguity in the law. When does a hedge stop being a hedge and start being an avenue of trees?

Apart from Willow, which I'd always recommend just because I've seen it work, what about Buddleja? It will happily grow to 10ft every year except its first year.

How about some nice silver birch? I think birch is gorgeous, and grows at ridiculous speed without losing its columnar shape.

Oh, and there's another lovely tree like I had at my last gaff. False Acacia:
False Acacia - Google Search

At my last gaff, when I moved in, it was a youngster no more than 5ft tall. When we moved out 10 years later, I'd been up on the ladders several times to trim it, and it was still about 20ft high. Its a gorgeous tree in every way, shape, colour, scent.

 

Eleagnus ebbingei is a nice evergreen shrub that grows to 3x2m 'ish' and it can be pruned if you need to. Either just the green one, which has lovely scented flowers in winter...but you can't see them, (tiny and underneath the leaves) Or Maculata Limelight which is variegated gold and green.
Would take a few years to get to this height though.
Some evergreen berberis too.

 

What neat trimming Shiney! Lovely shaped conifers.

 

Or you could build a seat with an arbor over it, with climbers growing up both sides. Then you could sit with your back to the panel too!

 

It is when sitting in the lounge the only view is of the rusty Rones :-)
a couple of feet of something would change the eyelevel and blank it out


Cheers

Jack McH