Bamboo

calleyw

A neighbour has very kindly planted bamboo in the ground on the far side of her garden to me which is a house width wide.


After taking up some gravel from next to her fence on my side. Bamboo has started to shoot up. So the roots have grown from the far side of her garden and under her patio on to my property. I now know why her next door neighbours, right next to the bamboo has put breeze blocks in the ground underneath their fence.


How do I deal with this to stop it happening again. The gravel and weed fabric will be going back down again this summer.


Thanks in advance


Yours


Calley x

MysteryMe

You need to put in a root barrier

Just for illustration as below, but you can buy it from several suppliers. It will need to go down deep

https://www.bigplantnursery.co.uk/plant-sundries/bamboo-root-barrier_1.html

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I agree that a root barrier is required because this is going to be a nuisance.


Arundinaria, common name Bamboo, is most definately invasive and this neighbour will soon be wishing they'd not planted it within the next few years as it will 'run' in all directions.


The neighbours on all sides will soon have the shoots appearing on their property.


In my opinion this is one of those plants that shouldn't be planted in urban/town gardens.

Davesnave

Catsacor wrote: »

In my opinion this is one of those plants that shouldn't be planted in urban/town gardens.

It would be better if only those varieties of bamboos which do not run were commercially available, but unless people have sufficient awareness that species differ, what chance is there of that?

You mention Arundinaria, but that's only one family of running bamboo. There's at least another 15 species that do similarly, and about 10 that don't.

If they pick one of the clumping kinds, people will usually have no bother.


Edit: The OP could try to contain the plant initially with a suitable glyphosate weedkiller until it's convenient to dig and put in a root barrier of some kind.

calleyw

Catsacor wrote: »

Arundinaria, common name Bamboo, is most definately invasive and this neighbour will soon be wishing they'd not planted it within the next few years as it will 'run' in all directions.

The neighbours on all sides will soon have the shoots appearing on their property.


In my opinion this is one of those plants that shouldn't be planted in urban/town gardens.

This use to be in pot and for some unknown reason they decided to plant it in the ground a couple of year ago. I am not a great gardener but even I know that you don't plant bamboo in the ground and only in pots.


Looks like I have lot of work and expense because of one muppet of a neighbour. As I said her next door neighbour right next to the plant have breeze blocks at ground level and the fence sits on top of it. Not sure if its due to the bambo or historic due to a old garden wall from 15 + years ago.


Yours


Calley x

Davesnave

calleyw wrote: »

even I know that you don't plant bamboo in the ground and only in pots.

I have some well-behaved clumping bamboo in the ground and it's maybe doubled its size in ten years, which isn't exactly a staggering growth rate.

unrecordings

We've a clump on a boundary with a neighbour (inherited, I didn't plant it). It tries to spread but I've been fairly successfully 'herding' it
That is to say, as soon as I see a spear pop up somewhere I don't like, it and the root get ripped up right back to the main clump.

My side is fairly under control, the neighbour's side less so (but it's not out of control)

But as Dave alludes, different species of bamboo have different habits

calleyw

Davesnave wrote: »

I have some well-behaved clumping bamboo in the ground and it's maybe doubled its size in ten years, which isn't exactly a staggering growth rate.

I know there are different types of bamboo. But as a generalisation the best way to go is not to plant it in the ground as most people like my neighbour (who seem to have no idea what damage and extra work they are causing for people) wont know or understand or even care.


Its the same as trees most people don't seem to know that tree roots can go out as far as the tree is high. Again its a rule of thumb just for ease and to make it easy to understand. Does not mean that every tree does.


Yours


Calley x