North West facing large border

This border is large and like all the others, a bloody awkward space. It follows the path toward the Pergola and my vision for this border is to be full, with interesting textures, blocks of 'woodland' character planting but with more structural form - a kind of halfway house between architectural and traditional woodland planting






Another intention here is to partially obscure the view beyond the pergola in order to help define the division in the space between one garden area and the next. At the moment I'm seduced by Corylus still but am open to change.

I think height is necessary around the pergola so as to compete with and balance its massive proportions (!) and also to perform the task of semi screening what lies beyond ..