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Fast growing privacy screen?
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If you're thinking of selling your house in the next few years then be very careful with bamboo, some mortgage companies will refuse a mortgage if the property has a certain type of the stuff as it can damage the house.0
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Really?
Does it make a difference how close to the building the plant is?
Or does it just have to be anywhere on the property to get yourself penalised?0 -
It's only the notorious Japanese Knotweed which could be problematic in a survey, not bamboo. Bamboo is a wonderful screening plant, with root barriers it poses no problems.0
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Sorry, my mistake I thought that was bamboo.0
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