Chris wrote:

"Dave" wrote in message ...
I live in Port St. Lucie, Fl and I am looking for some clumping bamboo for a
hedge. I will drive up to 75 miles to get it, I will even dig it myself and
pay you for it. I would like to have Hedge bamboo or Alphonse Karr bamboo
but it is not necessary.

A barrier system is not necessary with clumping bamboo's. Rhizomes DO
NOT run sideways with clumping bamboos and only spread a few inches
per year. From what I understand runners do not do well in Florida.

Chris, a few inches a year translates into a couple of feet a
decade. Most of them have been eradicated now, but all up and
down the East Coast, including in FL, there were estates where
someone had planted th fashionable bamboo -- including clumping
varieties -- in 1920s; and, then after the Crash, they were
abandoned or let go wild. There were places where they literally
had to take the bamboo out with a backhoe and burnoff. So, I'd
have my control system planned BEFORE I planted the bamboo.

Chris Owens


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