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The only way clumping bamboo should ever be planted is in a container and then the container placed in the concrete "shell". All bamboo is invasive. Clumping is just slower.
My roommate's back yard was infested with running bamboo...talk about a nightmare. Half of the backyard had to be excavated around 3 feet deep (yes the runners go that deep) and all new soil put in. We also put bamboo barrier around the yard, as it's still to some degree growing under the properties on either side of us and the parking lot behind us.
The Restaurant School has a running bamboo problem. If you walk past the front, look at the ivy. You'll see tall green stalks with almost heart shaped leaves. That's the above-ground part of the running bamboo. The rest is zooming along way underground and will slowly destroy the ivy and then probably start on the lawn as well as spread to the 2 properties next to the school.
Personally, having seen the damage it causes I wouldn't plant any bamboo anywhere. I don't know that I'd even trust it in a cement container! The only bamboo I have is the indoor "lucky" bamboo you keep in a glass. That can't go anywhere.
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:40:48AM -0400, Bill Sanderson wrote: > Any chance you might publish the physical coordinates of the intended > planting sites, so neighbors can be warned?Good point. Anyone who intends to plant the bamboo should warn their neighbors unless they do the 6"+ concrete container method. I do not intend to plant bamboo ever myself (these were inherited from previous owners). I posted previously regarding their aggressiveness. Dan W. > I feel lucky--we've got bamboo in an adjacent yard and it hasn't made it to > ours, but I understand the problem. I'm trying hard to get all the roots so it doesn't get into the yard next to ours either. It's difficult enough just getting any roots out at all. It's really nasty stuff. Imagine a spider web, where each strand is 1/2 inch thick or more, solid woody stuff, with smaller stringy roots digging in to the ground all along each strand. -- -- Daniel Widyono -- -- www.widyono.net -- -- www.cis.upenn.edu/~widyono -- -- ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
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