Ah, there are a great deal of in-ivasive bamboo's available these days as
the public is starting to demand them more and more. The more tropical a
bamboo plant, the more invasive. However there has been a large influx of
Sub Zero Bamboo varieties and a great deal of these don't take over
everything as the tropical ones are known to do.

I am not sure the total number of varieties available out there but here in
our state (High Rockies of Utah) we have six varieties which have been
approved by the forestry division. I planted a whole row of 100' four years
ago and have had no problems what so ever with mine. They are "Black
Bamboo". Warning here, I paid an absolute fortune for them and had them
shipped in from California on a great big flat bed truck. In the winter I
have to be very careful as our temps drop to below -15° for about six weeks
so I have to place a thermo heater on and around them--which is rather a
pain but they do look good.

Timber
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"Pat Meadows" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 03:29:05 GMT, "Timber"
wrote:

Are you home in the sunlight hours?
I have seen people plant entire gardens on wheels for just this reason.

Perhaps the trees can't go as you wish to keep them for the noise barrier
but is there any reason you can not replace them with a taller more
slender
tree? More and more people are starting to plant bamboo trees (okay so
it's
more like a grass that gets REAL TALL) for just this reason. They grow
thick and dense, yet straight up.

Danger, Will Robinson! Bamboo can be terribly terribly
invasive and take over huge areas seemingly in the blink of
an eye.

Some bamboos maybe not be invasive. I'm not sure whether
non-invasive bamboos exist or not.

Pat
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