Bamboo removal

[bonniebird]

We need someone who knows what they are doing to remove and take away a fairly big bamboo in our garden, its spreading and will get out of control, its about 12 foot high, would need to be chopped down and dug out we think. We are considering doing this depending on the cost, please pm me if you can give a rough quote, thanks in advance :)

[bonniebird]

had another look, husband reckons 20 foot high!

[TandTGardening]

Hello would you like me to arrange our gardener to come round and quote you for the work?

We can do so one day next week if it suits

Leah

T&T Gardening Assistant

[sarahbranson]

I'd be interested in taking it and having it in my garden if it is dug up. Perhaps the gardening could quote for digging it up and your place then planting it in mine? Just looking to buy some but seems a shame to kill a perfectly healthy plant and buy a new one. Happy to plan it myself, but it sounds like it isn't a clump forming one so will need a bamboo barrier which it might be easier for a gardener to do!

let me know

sarah

[DulwichFox]

Bamboo is a pest like Japanese knot weed.

It is difficult to keep under control and roots near impossible to remove.

It is recommended that any plants are surrounded with 6ft deep heavy duty plastic barriers

To prevent roots spreading horizontally and damaging nearby properties.

Replant at your peril.

Foxy

[sarahbranson]

ok thanks. Any other suggestions for a good screening plant then as the bamboo works brilliantly at the back of my garden and hasn't spread at all. I could easily plant it with a barrier. Are you a gardener Foxy? I appreciate your advice

[DulwichFox]

sarahbranson Wrote:

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> ok thanks. Any other suggestions for a good

> screening plant then as the bamboo works

> brilliantly at the back of my garden and hasn't

> spread at all. I could easily plant it with a

> barrier. Are you a gardener Foxy? I appreciate

> your advice

No... :) Alost everything I try and Grow dies..

apart from Geraniums $ Marigolds.. and they just need water..

Seem to get enough of that without my help..

I just googled about bamboo. seems there are many types and they seem to vary about any precautions needed.

Was just looking on the safe side.

Foxy

[*Bob*]

Gawd, Foxy.. you 'just' googled bamboo? 'After' stipulating the 6ft rhizome barrier?

Mad as a box of frogs.

You already have it, Sarah - no barrier needed for clumpers but put one in for runners. There are other methods of containment for runners besides barriers, but that's the one you can forget about once it's done (properly!).

[DulwichFox]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Gawd, Foxy.. you 'just' googled bamboo? 'After'

> stipulating the 6ft rhizome barrier?

>

> Mad as a box of frogs.

>

>

> You already have it, Sarah - no barrier needed for

> clumpers but put one in for runners. There are

> other methods of containment for runners besides

> barriers, but that's the one you can forget about

> once it's done (properly!).

When I said 'I just Googled Bamboo' I did not mean Then. As you say 'After' stipulating the 6ft rhizome barrier?

I Meant, to find out about Bamboo, I just googled it' Before I posted about the barrier.

in my first post.

Foxy

[*Bob*]

Well Foxy, a three foot rhizome barrier, max, is sufficient for most here on London clay.

But I admire your optimism in going down a full six. I guess it must be a life outlook thing?

[JulieP]

When we moved here 6 years ago there were some nice looking bamboo plants in various places in the garden. Quite liked it at the time. 3 years later, it had taken over nearly all the garden, it was growing up through the paving slabs as well as sprouting in both neighbours gardens. It was at least 12 feet tall, if not taller and the root system was impenetrable (no chance of digging it up). No other plants would grow as they blocked out the sun and drained the soil of all nutrients. Clearly this was not clumping bamboo!

Although we liked it, we had to completely get rid as we had no garden any longer and it was a nuisance to the neighbours. We did this by first chopping it back, then had to get a man with a stump grinder to deal with the roots and finally a couple of years of spraying glyphosates on any new sprouts.