Some of the larger panicled hydrangeas (Limelight, Quickfire Quickfire, etc.) would work if it will get several hours of sun after the mulberries are gone. They will be blooming for at least two months, and IME will grow fairly quickly once planted. They will likely top out at 8’ or more, enough for privacy when there are leaves. mine were over 5’ in less than 5 years when started from small plants, little more than rooted cuttings.

You will likely need to patrol the area fro mulberry seedling for a number of years, and pull them as they sprout. I like pliers for pulling woody sprouts.

Lilacs.

or oaks that holds their leaves through the winter

I’m a little nervous about cutting them all out, but they don’t provide privacy as is anyway

all of them are mulberry???

will you take them down yourself??? .. if not.. its often cheaper to do it in winter... most tree guys will work then ... presuming they can get access ... i.e. too much snow ...

just cut them flush to the ground.. and use stump killer...

once they are all gone.. you will have a better idea of what to do ... what the sun is.. etc ...

no use planting new stuff first.. then having them taken out.. and then complaining they harmed the new stuff ..

and then dont go all regimantal soldier line across the width ... just plant where you can dig holes around roots and stumps.. too much uniformity will look too artificial ...

if your ground freezes.. and they have access to get big trucks back there.. the job might be cheaper ... in that they wont have to drag it all out front to the chipper...

also ... chipped tree without leaves can make a real good.. FREE mulch ... if you have somewhere to stash it ... or just kill the lawn.. and spread it around .... it might be a little pia... with small unchipped smaller branches and what not.. but it will be free ... key word in my world ... why pay to have it trucked out.. only to have to pay to have stuff trucked back in ...

and since i see a lot of lawn ... go 3D ... dont line the new stuff up right on the property line.. you seem to have space for planting at differing widths from the property line ... and the further you go out.. the easier it will be to dig holes ... right next to stumps can be done.. but it will be a bit more work ...

its like you are living my garden life at this house.. just 20 years later ... and if you intersperse some green giants.. you will have ... lol ...

ken

ps: oh .... and a couple trees half way out there in the lawn.. will block the whole view .. much faster than stock planted all the way out there ... its the old perspective drawings .... especially if planted in respect to the certain windows or patio you will be looking out from ...

I’ll have them professionally taken out. I have the tree guys coming to trim up a couple large maple trees this winter already. All mulberry, too bad there isn’t anything worth keeping. As I said above, the thought of wiping all of those out and having a bare slate does make me nervous. Again, all depends on the cost I suppose. Lol

as i recall.. it dries very hard.. making it a good firewood ... you might have them section the trunks... IF you have the will to split it when green ... pretty sure it get rock hard as it dries.. and you will need a splitter to do it ... the cut flat stumps can make a good shopping platform ... especially if you leave one at a foot or two ...

dont bother with all the branches.. since you have so muck prime trunk ...

or i dreamed it all .. lol ...

ken

apparently i didnt dream it up.. lol

https://burlybeaver.com/mulberry-firewood/

note first pic is using a stump as a platform

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mulberry+firewood&iax=images&ia=images

ps: a good stacked pile of cut or split wood.. can make a nice sight block also .. lol ...

Arbor vitae? You could get a nice privacy screen over the next 5 years, although you would have plant a fair number of them. I am not a huge fan, but they are not messy at all unless the deer get at em

If you have a lot of sunlight, you might take a look at hawthorns, especially the Crimson Cloud. I planted one this past spring and have fallen in love with it. Its red-and-white spring flowers resemble gingham, and I love the leaf shape. It grows 12-24" a year and will eventually grow 15 to 20 feet tall and 12 to 20 feet wide.

If you have less sunlight and like an airier tree/shrub, you could consider the Autumn Brilliance serviceberry tree or shrub.

Both of these selections offer three-season interest.

Crimson cloud hawthorn

Trees that don't get too big. Flowering crab, the ornamental ones that have the small berries not crab apples. Birch trees don't get too big and are so pretty. They actually do best with a little shade from other trees. Maybe mix in a blue spruce for some interest, they get big but not for a long time.

NG with the blue spruce

NG?

Yah , in IL. Picea pungens is suffering from fungus problems

you can have one in the ground 10 yrs , then all of a sudden it will start losing needles

look around at blue spruce in area...see how they look

ron

to the right of photo is part of my 'Fat Albert' trimmed to shoulder height but still losing needles

I have 5 other dwarf cultivars that I spray for fungus that seems to be working

Even up here where temps are cooler and humidity lower, you find very few CBS that you could put in the 'Very good condition' category. Most have a large percentage of the 'inside needles' more than a year old missing.

Picea omorika is a good bet ,, a lot of skinny cultivars available

Took some more down over the weekend. 10 to go. Going to see what I have for available planting areas in the Spring. Planning on putting 10-12 green giant arborvitae in and calling it done. I do have several snowball bushes and forsythia to move around, too

Be aware that arbovitae are prone to sunscald and snow breakage in areas with a lot of snow and higher elevations.

If you let the mulberries resprout from the stump you will have your privacy hedge in 1-2 years.

I could probably get by 10’ of height since my line of sight is much lower that this existing tree line. Regardless I hate these mulberry trees and can’t wait to get rid of them.

i havent had snow or ice load issues on real GGs ....

viburnum will probably grown a fill space much faster than GGs ... and in 5 or 10 years ... tree time.. you can cut those out.. when the GGs need the space ...

ken

The main point is these mulberry trees are getting 86’d!

5 more mulberry got the axe. I’m kind of torn right now. May just throw several more forsythia in there and let them do what they do. I’m not looking for a magazine-worthy area. It’s either that or like I mentioned above- several 2’ tall green giants.

So what are the opinions? I have 20’ of depth. A few each viburnum and forsythia are staggered throughout now. All mulberry trees will be down come Spring. Mixture of arborvitae and fast growing deciduous? Several staggered arborvitae? Fill it with all forsythia, viburnum etc?