Looking for bamboo

[kalianna]

Iʻd like to second Robʻs suggestion about using podocarpus. Theyʻre fast-growing, inexpensive and readily available. Each year I pull out dozens of keiki growing from seeds. They grow quickly and require little care but keeping them pruned is key. Left alone they will grow into very large trees.

[Olohana 1790]

it will crawling into your neighbours yard and you will get 1 lawsuit to get rid of it. why plant invasive rubbish???
try to be Akamai plz...
rubbish bullock livestock is what fuccked up this Island by the way kook. Vancouver was a pos for dropping that rubbish off here, and Parker should have killed all that chit when he had the chance early on, same w/ Ben Lowe and his Ohana...now 1/5 of the island is informer Parker ranch invasive species rubbish land. the family is stupid w/ $$ now...lazy, dont know how to work or invest at all. ... aroha

[punikahakaiferret]

Mahalo again for the input for/against podocarpus; I appreciate hearing all sides.

I like Song of India/dracaena as well, and know it grows relatively quickly and easily and can be pruned/shaped into hedges or whatever.

Any naysayers or positive experiences there?

Thanks again to all!

[kalianna]

Song of India is beautiful but it grows much more slowly than podocarpus. Dracena isnʻt a particularly bushy plant, also slower growing.

[SSGSurf]

What are your height requirements?

[punikahakaiferret]

Really, as tall as I can get as fast as I can! Unfortunately, part of it's probably going to need to be like 20' high at least...not even sure it's possible.

Here's where things get long and involved; only read if you like bizarre tales.

My house is at the top of my lot, and my nosy neighbor's is below mine, so I'd love to have something grown that could block their view of my house. If only I'd known what I was in for when I built!

I have previously caught them peeping from behind their sheer curtains (no lie), sometimes with their phone/camera, and also trying to creep to look thru the lower sparser plantings between our lots. They have trespassed across the corner of my lot on one occasion that I happened to see and caught on my security camera. They walk past my place, trying really hard to act like they're not looking.

They have already tried to cause me trouble (unsuccessfully), and I'm quite tired of it. Wondering what they'll try next.

I live off-grid and very simply, and I think for some reason it is of...unhealthy and unnatural interest to my neighbor. They are one of those nosy, catty, complaining busy-body always-right sorts, and I am everything they are not.

I don't want to report them for harassment because of course they will then know it was I who reported them, and of course the cops will do nothing anyways. I just need to make it so they can't spy on me. It's really unnerving.

Some people... :::eyeroll:::

Keep hoping they'll decide to move...

So anyways!

Thanks for reading, and for any good info or advice.

[Punatang]

Some people... :::eyeroll:::

Keep hoping they'll decide to move...

So anyways!

Thanks for reading, and for any good info or advice.

Try roosters.

[punikahakaiferret]

Oh, there are choke roosters around here already. Plenty loud!

[SSGSurf]

Your answer is easier. Look up Leyland Cypress or Cupressus leylandii. Up to 1 meter a year, and up to 60 feet or so, depending. They make great groomed privacy hedges, or ungroomed as good privacy or wind blocks.

[punikahakaiferret]

Oooh, thank you! I have seen some of those around the area...stately and elegant!