Bamboo for screening in pots

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My neighbours have removed bushes which mean other houses have direct line of sight into my kitchen , bedroom and bathroom

I only have a patio so can’t plant into the ground

Would bamboo in pots work?
It needs to be tall

Can anyone also recommend anywhere to buy them?

Yes it would work. You can get phyllostachys bamboo at any B&Q garden centre. This variety can happily grow beyond 4m if you wish.

Don't plant in metal pots - bamboo roots are very tender and will freeze in a metal pot in the winter.

Roots also don't like sitting in the wet, so make sure you put rocks and gravel in the bottom of the pot to ensure that it drains.

In hot weather pots will need watering every day. Bamboo loves manure so a small bag of soil conditioner (farmyard manure) which you can also buy from B&Q will get it off to a great start. We're just about to come to the end of the season for bamboo, so you won't get much more out of it this year, but it "wakes up" roundabout Feb/Mar.

And do not plant phyllostachys in the ground without root barriers like concrete slabs - it's hugely invasive and will grow like the bloody clappers!! However it's great in a pot.

I saw some good size bamboo outside Morrisons yesterday.

I was going to say Morrisons do pots for about £10, though our local one it was a few weeks ago

A great idea. We have three 50cm diameter pots of bamboo to hide a section of next doors fence.
We’ve had the bamboo about 12 years and it’s about 2.5 metres tall, despite having to be cut down when we moved house. It doesn’t like pruning, but now 4 years on its back to its lovely self.
Tappering’s advice is spot on re care.

I must be rubbish at growing Bamboo. I have a Phyllostachys Aurea I planted over 20 years ago that hasn't gone rampant. Its over 12ft high and about 4 ft wide though have kept it to a couple of foot deep. Ive taken four succesful plants off it and three are deciding if they wnat to grow

It must of all gont to the neighbours garden

Can you put a fence up?

I have a 6ft fence already so can only add trellis on top.

If you want the bamboo to be higher, you could always stand the pots on breeze blocks to raise them up.

Good shout I hadn’t thought of that
I have been looking at buying ones that come at 2.5m high and then big deep recatangular pots

Hoping to pick some up at the garden centre if they stock them

Why don’t you dig up some of your patio and plant some small trees and large shrubs into the ground?

Mine are still throwing up shoots, just looking at one 8ft tall. It’s a record for that plant.

@Bumble they're amazing aren't they ?

I call them babies when they pop out the ground and get very excited.

I've also now got about 8ft tall ' babies' all over

@Bumble they're amazing aren't they ?

I call them babies when they pop out the ground and get very excited.

I've also now got about 8ft tall ' babies' all over