Bamboo
- Subject: Bamboo
- From: "Tiede, Karen E" k*@eds.com
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:38:03 -0400
>>He said he would pour a cement footing in the ground to keep
the bamboo in bounds and that it wouldn't travel. Is this possible?
No. You will note the person who said he had successfully contained bamboo
lives in zone 6B. It gets cold there. It does not get cold in your part of
Texas. That guy can probably grow wisteria without it taking over the
backyard, too.
>>If so how deep does the cement footing need to be?
All the way to China.
There are vast forests of escaped bamboo throughout Chapel Hill, NC. I bet
their original owners thought they could control it, too.
>>I need a variety that gets very dense and tall quickly.
As a general rule, anything that gets dense and tall quickly either never
stops growing, or dies just as quickly, and then you have a big dense mess
of dead plant to get rid of.
Have you considered chainlink covered with something a little tamer, like
English Ivy or one of the pretty (and reasonably safe) honeysuckles?
(I am now a big fan of painted chainlink--working on getting all of mine
blue; currently about half the fence is. It needs to be primed, but it's
not that hard to paint (use two people wearing lambswool mits) and way
cheaper than buying the colored kind.)
>>I imagine someone here has had experience with this.
Clearly, I have. I love quick-growing plants. I am learning how very much
I hate to get rid of them. Lost an entire corner of the yard to
Passionflower this summer, and it's going to take a lot of Roundup to get it
back.
Karen Tiede
7A Central NC
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