For a quick hedge or windbreak plant these plants 5 to 6 feet apart.
Narrow bamboo privacy hedge.
For a more gradual hedge plant 10 to 12 feet apart.
Formal privacy hedge trees need to be sheared and shaped every year to look neat and tidy and to form a perfect hedge.
Slim will grow to 3m tall with a spread of 1 3m and can even be pruned to a minimum width of just 60cm.
These fast growers can reach a height of 60 feet and a spread of 20 feet.
Full to partial sun.
Callistemons also make wonderful hedges and the narrow habit of slim pictured above makes it an ideal hedge choice for narrow spaces or small gardens.
Tolerates a range of soils but prefers moist well drained loams.
It forms an umbrella shape and grows up to 30 40 feet tall making a tight hedge rapidly.
And because the plants grow so densely bamboo is almost as good as a solid fence as a privacy screen.
Variety selection before purchasing a bamboo plant you need to make sure you have selected a variety that will work for you.
A bamboo privacy hedge can form just such a mass because its canes grow together so densely by nature.
It also offers the benefit of doing the job very quickly since no other hedgerow plant grows as quickly as bamboo.
Or with some basic carpentry skills you can build a long narrow planter just the right size for your hedge.
But don t think that pots and boxes will solve all your problems.
Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world so it can create a lush and exotic privacy screen very quickly.
On the other hand informal fast growing evergreen bushes or shrubs for privacy only need low maintenance care year round.
The timber bamboo grows dense very fast and does an outstanding job working as a privacy hedge.
Seabreeze bamboo is a hardy sub tropical variety and the best choice for coastal areas and can also survive in cool climates and winds.
Like most bamboos chusquea culeou forms an excellent privacy hedge when planted in a row.
Some varieties of bamboo are invasive so choose a slow spreading clumping.