Crtj

On our small lot we wanted a quick shelter belt to protect the orchard and the bees. We went with a double row of willow and a double row of hazel + hornbeam (the latter more for its keeping the leaves on property than growth rate; hazel and willow covered that). Since it's a windy site putting up a textile windbreak fence to the north of the young plants helped a lot with establishment and growth. This was 10 years ago. It worked out very well. The h+h are now 12-ish ft tall,and the willows double that, with some having been harvested for small logs in the last few years.