Living curtains and green interiors ward off prying eyes and calm your space. Our list of the Best Privacy Plants for Windows shows you how!
Best Privacy Plants for Windows
1. Snake Plant
Botanical Name: Sansevieria trifasciata
Snake plants can grow up to six feet tall with little space. Their stiff, upright leaves are thick and perfect for filtering outside sights and light. Place them in a row by a busy window or plant them in window boxes and enjoy the immediate privacy they provide.
These plants are low maintenance and can even tolerate some neglect, making them perfect for busy bees.
2. Bamboo Palm
Botanical Name: Chamaedorea seifrizii
Bamboo Palms have slender stalks covered in feathery fronds that create a soft, layered effect. Its lush foliage creates a beautiful visual and noise barrier as its leaves absorb sound waves. Place a bunch of these plants together and shield your world from snoopy outsiders.
Bamboo palms can grow up to even 12 feet tall with regular pruning. They thrive in shade, indirect light, and sun.
3. Pothos
The popular Pothos is one of the best privacy plants for your home. All you need to do is let it grow around the windowsill, and voila! Its heart-shaped leaves can be trained to form a verdant curtain and quickly cover up windows.
Easy to maintain, lush with abundant leaves, and a rampant trailing habit, Pothos thrives in low light and is perfect for shadowy windows and spots in your home.
4. English Ivy
Botanical Name: Hedera helix
With thick, intricate foliage and a dense growth habit, English ivy is the perfect choice for a quick natural drape for your window. A single plant can rapidly climb and cover windows or hang prolifically from baskets. It is fuss-free and grows well in dim light—just make sure there’s no high humidity!
However, its fast-growing clinging nature truly excels outdoors, where it blankets entire walls and provides the most secretive cover you’ll ever need.
5. Creeping Fig
Botanical Name: Ficus pumila
The Creeping Fig is just as great at concealing and beautifying barren corners and windows as it is at colonizing and penetrating the structure it is on. With lovely heart-shaped foliage, this vine is excellent for topiaries, efficiently taking the shape and filling out the gaps of its scaffolding.
This vigorous grower has adhesive pads that are tough to remove and can damage wooden frames and walls. While they are easily the best privacy plants for windows, choose a spot where they can grow carefree.
6. String of Pearls
Botanical Name: Senecio rowleyanus
Bet you weren’t expecting a string succulent on this list of best privacy plants! Grow a row of String of Pearls in hanging baskets and watch them spill over like a vast green fountain. Its classic, dainty foliage helps create a soft and gentle cloak of privacy.
And they’re low maintenance, need minimal watering, thrive in bright, indirect light, and are easy to propagate!
7. Philodendron
Botanical Name: Philodendron spp.
Philodendrons have lush, dark green leaves that allow them to soak up any available light and water in the most versatile settings. Their leaves can burn quickly, so they must receive ample but dappled sunlight—place them in an east or north-facing window for this. If your philodendron window receives a blast of direct sun, use sheer curtains as a backdrop to filter out the light.
These tropical cascading vines readily climb stakes, poles, and even hooks on the ceiling. If you’re confused about which variety to go with, we recommend the Split-Leaf Philodendron for its size and type of leaves.
8. Spider Plant
Botanical Name: Chlorophytum comosum
Privacy also comes in duo tones, especially with the graceful spider plant! This clump-forming beauty enjoys bright, indirect light, is easy to grow, and tolerates neglect like a champ. Its long, arching leaves naturally drape down and fill out spaces.
Line up a bunch of spider plants in hanging baskets or place one on a tall stand in a large pot in front of an exposed window. The plant will quickly turn bushy and bouncy, repelling curious eyes without filtering out the sun.
9. Hoya
Hoya might not be the speediest privacy plant for the window, but what it lacks in growth, it makes up for in beauty and function. This waxy-leafed climber can be trained with a trellis or frame to spread and cascade, forming a living curtain full of pretty leaves.
With gentle, indirect light and watering when the topsoil is dry, this vine produces perfect globes of star-shaped fragrant flower clusters, making your window secluded and magical.
10. Parlor Palm
