Oh no!!! bambo in my lawn!

[poppiesinaline]

We've got bambo in a flower bed in our garden. Love it, it looks fab. Was already here when we moved in (we've been here a couple of years now). Just noticed that its shooting off everywhere and is even going into my lawn . Help!!!

Trying to figure out if this was a small deer...

Bamboo ! Essentially two types: clumping and spreading. You, Ms. Saline, have just found out you don't have a clumping one !

If you put bamboo in and want to constrain it you really need a root barrier. This is installed vertically (it's 75cm high) and prevents the roots running and the plant suckering.

You can either start digging, or change the layout of your lawn / beds ! I suppose you could 'retrofit' a root barrier, but it might prove tricky !

bamboo !!! ooops!! silly me!! LOL

oh no! drats. Dont love it so much now

I'll get DH onto it. He loves digging ..... NOT!!!

bamboo? where do you live? its strange to get that in the uk isn't it?

do you have pandas

no no - you can buy it
quite popular but can run rampant if you have the wrong species

The odd fox but no pandas!

I am in Surrey, quite a few gardens near me seem to have it, I am sure no-one is hiding any pandas though . Mind you - could do with the odd panda here or there now to get munching away.

humph - I obviously have the wrong species

sound rather nice, have to check some out, what is the right species?

also expecting rampant deer

my bamboo is clumping and I love it .. its huge

If anyone does have a panda then they can have some of our bamboo, it's now about 12 feet tall and disguises the swing perfectly!

We also have the scariest looking buds/flowers about to come out on our Yukka plant in the front garden, they are like triffids!

oo i like this thread, i've had my yucca for years, it's huge, i would love it to flower

Clumping is good, T.

There are several families of bamboo to buy and plant in your garden. They give movement in the wind, sound can act as a hedge / visibility barrier, can be evergreen, different coloured stems etc. etc.

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Interestingly, when bamboo flowers it dies !

This is the first year in about 10 that our Yucca has flowered, it has four spears about 2 foot long sticking out of the top that look positively phallic and they are starting to unravel themselves.

I got fed up with being impaled by it when gardening so took some shears to the bottom of it and gave it a hair cut - it's response? scary flowers

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dh carried it home from B&Q up a bloody big hill - it was 6 foot tall when it came to live with us and we empty all the paddling pool water on it - thirsty beast.

i love the black bamboo, it's very expensive though! i'm quite surprised that it grows so well here.

Lucycampcat, where did you cut the yucca to get the flowers, the bottom leaves?

Im nabbing the panda LucyCampCat! Need it to chomp away the bamboo IN MY LAWN

still trying to figure out my MSN too hub2dee! Am putting my brain to it over the weekend. :)

I just hacked it around the bottom to make it into more of a bush shape, it was very congested at soil level - I really don't know whether it made a difference, or it was all the rain we had in May followed by the hot spell. I'd hate you to kill your Yucca on my advice!

i think i'll leave it for now, but i would love it to flower!

I'll take a photo of it and post it in Member profiles later so you can see where i hacked it - that'll confuse people!!

My bamboo is a clump forming one - but it is one huge clump. Can I split it when I dig out a new border (as is planned)?

Think it reacts very well to a hard split.

Am sure your MSN fixing will go smoothly, P !

probably better than my bamboo controlling! LOL

Just out of interest, how far is the suckering shoot from the edge of the main plant ?

don't you mean shoots :( errrm about a foot

Nothing to worry about then...just get a sharp spade, and go deep down beside the edge of the plant until you hit the bamboo suckers, and dig them out !

You might need to not chop the suckers up because it's possible EACH ONE WILL THEN ROOT, LOL ! (Not 100% sure on that, but it's distinctly possible !)

I was considering a trumpet vine till I had a good google... this thing can sucker 50 foot from where you planted it on roots as big as yer wrist ! It breaks through tarmac 'n all !