hello gardeners---We are trying to fill in an open space under a line of 12 cedar trees. we have 12 red cedars in east west orientation--about 130 feet across the line---years ago a family memeber sprayed herbacide under the trees to kill a few bothersome weeds(a characteristic, lazy gene trait of that family member--arrrggh), the lower brances took 2-5 years to finally die and the needles all fell off these branches about 4 foot up from ground-i finally got permission to cut them out--now there is an open space where these cedar boughs used to cover--now a busy gravel road is visible, and dust drifts up the hill towards the house in the right SE breeze, plus a sense of privacy has been lost.

--my Mom wants that space created under the boughs "filled"--there is plenty of room for another line of trees or shrubs, a nice sunny southern exposure, pasture behind the line of cedars,---so we can block the open space under the missing boughs from behind with an adjacent/paralle line of new trees/shrubs ---set back from the cedars up to 30 feet

--there is a sense of urgency, my Mom is 83 years old, very spry, but whatever new plants We put in should be something that grows fast. We cannot afford pro tree co. and tree spade, but i can dig & prep however many good holes needed with nice loam and old barn soils-along with whatever soil conditioner will help kick start these new trees/shrubs. Additionally , the new plants will watered frequently through this growing season and mulched

---the area to be planted is wide and long-130 feet, and slopes downhill gently towards the road away from the house. I intend on planting a line of the new plants paralle to the cedar trees about 15-30 feet away from the cedar trees. the choosen tree/shrub we plant only needs to achieve 3-5 foot of growth height to block out the view of the created space under the cut out boughs of the cedar trees--(being redundant hopefully to maintain clarity) note:upon review, i realize that this is confusing unless You live here, but its all i have time for right now-gotta go pull weeds and grubbushout a little hillside alongside the driveway-(mothers day gift)

please help Us decide which tree or shrub would work best for this situation :)

thank you and have a great season