Dreaming of my new garden - trees

We have finally secured a house to live in! hooray. It has a fantastic 'blank canvas' 130ft (about 40ft wide) rear garden. This may mean I will no longer be needing the allotment, I am due to hand it over in spring next year and I was planning to apply for another when we moved. Now this garden could provide a sizeable area for a vegetable patch. Not sure what this could be called? perhaps just Whitley Road instead of Furnace Lane?

Anyway I have been very excitedly planning what to create in this new space. There are so many elements I want to include, like a work shed/office; veggie patch; childrens area; orchard/wood; beach garden (as we are about 300m from the sea) and various seating areas.

For some time I have been dreaming of trees strangely enough. I'm not sure why, but I've become mildly obsessed with ornamental trees like eucalyptus, Betula albo-sinensis septentrioalis, various japanese maples and flowering cherries. The house already has a well established conference pear and I have recently bought an Egrement Russet apple to complement my morello cherry currently in a large pot. I'm planning on a nice fig tree near the decked area as I love the slightly tropical look of the broad leaves, Ficus 'Briogiotto Nero' being my favourite variety. Nothing can beat a ripe fig with parma ham and squidgy mozarella.

I have been hunting for some birch trees in anticipation of this new garden, to act as a screen at the bottom. I had two weeping birches in large pots on either side of the aisle at our wedding in a large  barn. I'm half Finnish, so the birch as well as the pine is very reminiscent of Finland, I absolutely love the sound of the leaves in the breeze. Today I bought a pretty standard birch as I saw it half price at one of my favourite garden centres, and next to it was this beautiful Prunus Chocolate Ice, the leaves long and flame red providing the perfect compiment to the dinky birch leave. I think these two relatively close by will look lovely in the autumn with the sun shining through. The Prunus should provide pretty pink spring blossom on bronze foliage which is an added bonus.