Do warn people that bamboo is very very invasive and will come up through bricks and grow undergound up to 8 feet before you realise it has spread. I put 4 in and had to pay to have them dug out.
I have only grown the smaller non invasive bamboo, but I have just planted a willow and am restricting the roots with a barrier made from an old pond liner. I made some holes in it and am going to plant bog type plants around it, I think this control system would work with bamboo and you could fashion a wind break or a screen this way. good luck
My large Bamboo clump has been badly frost damaged (we went down to minus 18 degrees C), all the leaves have turned brown and fallen off, although the stems still seem green. Will it recover?
To keep bamboo in control you need to be very vigilant. When you spot an invasive new shoot cut it right back with the secateurs then go to the parent plant and try to find the runner and slice that. any rooted parts from the runner are easy to dig out when young. my "rove" came from next door so is a freebie. only once has it flowered, all plants together and then the grove looked sorry for itself for a season or two, then recovered its usual exotic beauty and usefulness. I think it is a great plant for large gardens. The frosted plants should regenerate from new plants from runners. Mine were unaffected in Bristol but I should imagine the roots from older plants would be untouched in hard frost, except if they were in a pot.
Have just moved into a house with a small garden and a wonderful Bamboo plant which gives lots of privacy but its growing into other parts of the garden. Is the only way of controlling it to cut it back to the root? I would find this difficult to do.
Hi mo little old lady, basically bamboo's that are already more the 5feet tall would be difficult to remove or cut..But if you want to control the spreading of your bamboo newly shoots, don't worry a swift kick can even remove the largest of shoots. And it can be done very easily with a lawn mower but some areas maybe difficult to mow.Once you aborted the cane will never grow again. Using this type of maintenance is a easy way to control your bamboo grove.
I do love gardeners world magazine. Bamboos look great on my patio, I bought a selection online from Gardening Express. They are doing really well and have grown wonderfully. Fargesia is nice and bushy, and one I had yearn for a long time is the nigra bamboo. They sent me a large plants, the canes are dark ebony colour. I love it. Thanks Gardeners world, and thanks Gardening Express.
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