California Gardening: Add Oleander to Backyard for Screen?, 2 by Wifeygirl

Wifeygirl wrote:
We went on a trip up to Sacramento last weekend and I couldn't help but admire the huge, beautiful hot pink, light pink, and white oleander in the 99 freeway median. Gorgeous. It brightened up what would have otherwise been a truly dull trip!

I've been thinking about if I should consider one or more of these oleanders for my backyard fence screen. Our backyard is a fishbowl.

As you can see I do have kids, but they've never chewed on a plant in my garden before...

Does anyone have experience with Oleander in this type of environment, where it would be be encouraged to become tall for a screen and not allowed to get as wide as it is in the freeway median?