Potted tree to partially block view

ohdarn

I'd second the bamboo option. We have clumping bamboo in our garden and it works better and faster than most trees.

KateBob

Very old fashioned I know but wouldn't net curtains work?
They let in light and stay in place over the window area when opened.

loveka

Bamboo in a pot as suggested earlier would work. You can get huge ones. Winter Joy retains it's leaves in summer. I have blocked an unsightly view with it, although not in pots. I also have an outside shutter to block a view. It has diagonal slats so still allows light and air in when the window is opened.

If you then had the window box idea in addition I think you could block a view very well. There are some great grasses that grow tall.

lindze

I live in a ground floor flat with a drive in front of my living room window (not my car) and I used linen panels in the window, let's light in but obscures the view. 
I bought the fabric and used extendable rods top and bottom so the fabric was smooth across the window and not bunched up like traditional nets

sheramber

No doubt the children could move or peep round the edge of a curtain or screen.

martindow

sheramber said:

No doubt the children could move or peep round the edge of a curtain or screen.

I'm sure they would.  It must be well worthwhile making an effort to see some mysterious thing your parents are going to such trouble to hide from you.

Ramouth

martindow said:

sheramber said:

No doubt the children could move or peep round the edge of a curtain or screen.

I'm sure they would.  It must be well worthwhile making an effort to see some mysterious thing your parents are going to such trouble to hide from you.

Judging by the interest on here it is not just children who would go to considerable lengths to find out what was being obscured!

Please tell us!

user1977

Brick up window. Replace internally with an LCD screen showing some sort of bucolic child-friendly view.