Hi, folks. I hope I'm dropping into the right newsgroup with this question.
I have an apartment near San Francisco with a big south-facing window. This window is on the first floor, so everyone on the street can see right in unless I cover the window somehow. I would like to do so by creating a sort of interior hedge: a row of tall plants in pots next to the window on the inside. Ideally, the hedge would be about eight inches thick, and sort of semi-permeable to light and prying eyes.
What would be appropriate to grow for this purpose? I've looked around a bit, and bamboo looks quite nice, and it is both fast-growing and hardy even in the hands of a neophyte.