These can provide you with the shade you need in a fairly short time frame. The river birch (Betula nigra) is one tree that loves sun and grows quickly, at a rate of about 1 ½ to 3 feet per year.

with its distinctive peeling white bark to the weeping river birch (Betula nigra 'Summer Cascade') with its unusual weeping habit and petite height of 15 feet. There is likely a birch tree that ...