Best Privacy Screen Palms for So Cal

[SCVpalmenthusiast]

I know the dypsis lutescens are popular in Florida, not sure if they would look so good in my inland valley climate. I have an arenga engleri, but I need something fast growing and tall.

My pool area is in perfect view of my neighbors second story window, and it looks like they have a camera set up in front of their window. For that reason I need something that grows in clumps and tall. 

Bamboo may be an option but I don’t want leaves in my pool. Feeling a bit out of options. I have giant birds of paradise on the other side for privacy screening, but don’t want too many. What would you guys plant?

[idontknowhatnametuse]

Chamaedorea costaricana or Acoelorraphe wrightii could be of help.

[bar]

Queen palm is super fast growing, although not very exciting.  Same goes for Trachycarpus fortunei. boring but quick, but actually does look nice planted in groups.  You might do okay with Dypsis baronii, which is quickish. 

(Bamboo is the gift that keeps on giving.  Once you plant it, you're stuck with it for life!)

[Hjr]

I had the same problem on both sides of my backyard. Planted 15g Dypsis lutescens on one side and chamaedorea plumosa on the other side. They both  grow fast for me inland but the Dypsis is a much denser screen. 

[Silas_Sancona]

As mentioned, Dypsis lutescens  would be the  standard " answer ..for obvious reasons.    You will have to thin / trim them overtime  to get them to the right height and form though.



Another bulletproof option?  Arenga engleri..    also a clumper,    sorta slow   < by impatient people's standards >  ..but worth it..  Suckers produced will eventually will form trunks,   and....

  ..if it gets cold enough there to injure them,  ..you're gonna have many more things in your landscape that would be killed ..or severely set back.  < AKA:  hardy to the lower 20sF,  if not a little lower than that.  > 

When old enough, flowers produced smell wonderful. 

Unlike Areca palms,  fruit / seed production is easier to handle too, imo. 

Taller / trunk -forming Chamaedorea sps. can work too  though i myself would add them only after you have some overhead canopy.