Questions

I am looking at the options for Trees types that i could Plant along the Back wall of my 3 Bed Semi House. The Back Wall is about 3 Meters High, the Lower part is Concrete and the Top meter is Wooden Planks.

Have you ever heard of a schmacher tree (not sure of spelling) have not being able to find reference to it anywhere. I believe it has variegated leaves.

We lost a mature Griselinia hedge due to the extreme cold this winter. We are just about to remove the sad spectacle from our garden and need advice on what to replace it with. The house is detached, in a mature estate on the town side of suburbia. To the front it's 30ft long and the side is12ft. It is c.20ft. from front of the house. Most gardens in the estate are open-plan but we like to have a hedge as ours is the first house on the road after a high wall.Would love to get your thoughts on something relatively fast-growing and absolutely hardy.

After this hard winter all of our 18 year old Olearialook dead no foliage at all.Will these recover or is it a case of removing all of them.If I cut them down what do you suggest as Regards the stumps as they are large.What would you suggest as a replacement as they lined our drive up to the house and provided shelter.

I want to grow something up the back of my house to cover unsightly drains etc. I was thinking of Virginia Creaper or varigated Ivy but have been told that they pull the plaster off walls. The house is only four years old. I dont know if this applies to modern houses. Have you any suggestions. Also I would have to grow it in pots as paved area below.

Is the tree(Cedar?)on the right of the att.photo too close to the house .The distance is about 10 meters from the house to the tree trunk.Should or could the lowre branches be removed or would this destroy its form?