We recently had an enquiry about screening out a neighbouring house. The folk wanted something quick (as most everyone does) and preferred an evergreen planting.
Evergreen is fine but can be shade casting and repetitive. We had other ideas and will recommend a short list of mixed planting (some evergreen) that will include the deciduous Liquidambar Formosana. We have two of these trees, still young but growing apace.
The virtue of the Formosan Liquidambar is they colour late and hold their foliage during the winter but not the way beech or pinoaks do, with dead looking copper leaves, no Formosana holds claret and deep purple leaves that light up the dullest winter day and keep on screening.
It can become large as liquidambars do but it is a rewarding versatile tree that will provide dense cover for screening and a beautiful shape if grown as a lawn tree or part of a woodland.
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