Joseph Herbert on fri 9 jun 06
Tony,
The Cleveland botanical gardens uses square chimney tiles (flue liners) sunk
in the ground to hold their invasive plants. I would strongly recommend
this to you. Any sort of SOLID barrier extending down a couple of feet
would do it.
We have a house in Texas and our across-the-street neighbor may have done
exactly the thing you are contemplating. His next-door was a pack rat as
well and the Bamboo curtain solution was applied. One early summer day I
noticed a line of graduated sized bamboo plants coming across their yard
toward MY HOUSE! I have never been so glad to be on the right side of the
street.
One problem with bamboo is the best (easiest) control measure (RoundUp)
kills it well and thoroughly. I believe the interconnected root system makes
it hard to just kill it a little, kind of all or nothing.
I guess if it gets too bad, you could plant that other oriental blessing,
Kudzu, which should be able to smother it out.
Either way, good luck with it.
Joseph Herbert
Taylor Hendrix on sun 11 jun 06
Joseph and others,
I bet you know this already, and perhaps Bamboo Karen has mentioned
it, but monopodial (clumping) bamboo is not invasive and can be
planted to great effect even down here in Texas. My stand is a good
10 feet wide and maybe thrity feet tall? How high do they put
transformers on poles? Anyway, several clumping bamboos are available
in the U.S. Arrow bamboo is a fantastic hedging bamboo if you plant
it densly and shape it well.
As for the invasives. Culms can exit the soil and 'climb' over
barriers, so vigilance is needed if you plant those rascals. Don't
piss your neighbors off Tony by planting sympodial bamboo.
A bamboo supplier is just across Copano Bay from us, maybe a 15 minute
boat ride. Too bad the road trip is a good 40 minutes or so.
Taylor, in Rockport TX
On 6/10/06, Joseph Herbert wrote:
> Tony,
>
> The Cleveland botanical gardens uses square chimney tiles (flue liners) sunk
> in the ground to hold their invasive plants. I would strongly recommend
> this to you. Any sort of SOLID barrier extending down a couple of feet
> would do it.
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