Don't give up on bamboo. There are very many varities that are NON-RUNNING.
There are CLUMPING Bamboos that are just fine. Do some research before you
give up on bamboo. I have a Clumping Variety in the same spot for 5 years
and hasn't grown anymore than a regular clumping ornamental grass. I also
have a running bamboo ...LOL That's another story. {:O) Thanks Mike
"Gareee©" wrote in message
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"Mark Bannister" wrote in message
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I think it was Heidlelberg Zoo (maybe not, anyway some zoo somewhere,
sometime, perhaps in a galaxy far, far away) that we saw bamboo escaping
and making sidewalks almost impassible by pushing it up and sending up
nice, sharp pointy growth. It was going underneath as well and invading
some other exhibit by passing under a concrete wall.


It's extremely aggressive. When I was working at Disney's Animal Kingdom,
we
saw some species that were supposedly "containable" grow about a foot a
DAY!
(Disney created a great waste water recycling system, but didn't create
cutoffs for smaller areas. The Bamboo was getting watered in the wee
hours,
and was rampant.)

Fortunately, they poured VERY thick concrete planters/walkways, and it
could
not go beyond it's planter, since that's all the soil there was.

Do some web searching, and you'll find horror story after horror story
from
people who added some bamboo, and thought they could contain it. (I ran
across many yesterday, when searching for bamboo removal.)

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