Identifying trees - help please!

littleflower100

Hello! We saw these beautiful green and purple trees with relatively thin trunks and full but unstructured foliage on an episode of ‘Location, Location, Location’ and we are very keen to know what they are as we’d love to plant some in our garden! I appreciate this is not a very clear image, but I’m hoping someone may be able to identify them. Any suggestions for similar trees (preferably evergreen) would be gratefully received too!

Loraine3

They look like they could be beech- copper and green.

Dovefromabove

Have a look here 
https://www.barcham.co.uk/store/?page=2

lots of types with coloured leaves

find some you like them check with us to see if they’re suitable for your planting site and needs. 😊 

Buttercupdays

They potentially grow into very large trees, but they can be trimmed into a hedge. If then trimmed at the right time, they keep their  russet autumnal leaves over winter, so you get another season of colour

littleflower100

Thank you for your replies! We’re really keen to have something that adds instant height as our back garden is somewhat overlooked, but want to avoid anything that may become hard to manage longer term. We don’t want to lose any privacy in the winter either, hence why we’re particularly keen on something evergreen. Quite a long list of requirements I know! 😆

Obelixx

You could do a pleached hedge using a mix of green and copper beech.  It looks like a hedge on stilts as the lower trunks are bare but the top is furnished with stems and foliage that give colour and texture and privacy so would give height without too much volume and allow you to plant below to provide seasonal interest thru the year.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=155 

JennyJ

The house opposite us has a beech hedge (the green kind). They cut it now and again so it doesn't have the loose look of the ones in your picture. The leaves turn brown in autumn but mostly stay on the plants all winter. Not exactly evergreen, but it might work for you.

Fairygirl

littleflower100 said:

 We’re really keen to have something that adds instant height

The problem with that is that you also need the experience to care for them. Large specimens of any tree are more difficult to establish. It's a common request, but it isn't always simple to achieve. 
Your photo isn't clear enough for an ID, and I'm not sure the green  ones are beech, but beech or hornbeam retain their foliage over winter if kept below about 10 to 12 feet, and can be pleached, as @Obelixx says. 

That also requires some skill. 

Dovefromabove

It also requires them to be trimmed twice a year, at specific times of the year year and in a specific way, in order for them to hold their leaves through the winter. 

Clip them too early and/or not short enough and they will lose their leaves in the winter as other deciduous trees do. 

JennyJ

Dovefromabove said:

It also requires them to be trimmed twice a year, at specific times of the year year and in a specific way, in order for them to hold their leaves through the winter. 

Clip them too early and/or not short enough and they will lose their leaves in the winter as other deciduous trees do. 

The beech hedge over the road from us must be a particularly good-natured one because it's a rented house, the tenants change fairly often, none of them have been gardeners and they seem to chop the hedge at random times. One guy who lived there used to do it several times over the summer, little but often. The current people leave it until it's halfway over the pavement and then hack loads off.

Dovefromabove

Little and often, or leaving it late probably fits in 🤣
The last trim should be in August ... earlier and the hedge is likely to drop a lot of leaves 
Ive found this useful site
https://www.hopesgrovenurseries.co.uk/knowledge-base/when-to-trim-a-beech-hedge/