Bamboo may be the nicest and most relaxing screening plant of all time. It can gently hide your subdivision neighbors (for those with HOA’s, bamboo pots well in zone 9) from seeing your hot tub, or block the view of an unsightly row of trashcans/cars/houses/???. Easy to grow and easy to control and shape, bamboo is unbeatable as a living breathing means of providing privacy.

“Bamboo is a great plant for visual privacy screens or evergreen hedges because it has a relatively small footprint, it’s tall, it’s alive and it grows fast, produces oxygen and sequesters carbon, and to top it off, it’s beautiful.”

-Bamboo Sourcery

Seeing from within while blocking outside neighboring views
Bamboo for privacy screening is not only remarkably effective, it is a spectacularly beautiful way to take control of your privacy. The dense foliar growth of bamboo in zone 9, means you and a pair of loppers are all the tools necessary to create a fantastically specific, fully customizable privacy screen. Tactical pruning of bamboo decides both the views from within and beyond your bamboo screen. From afar a screening grove of bamboo looks dense and often visually impenetrable, but from up close, properly trimmed bamboo allows you to easily see the views. Try that with a typical fence or wall…