On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 11:36:36 +0000, sarasara
wrote:


I need to screen off a farmyard from the house and as there seems to be
no known fast growing hedge that grows no more than 4/5 metres high I
am looking at the idea of bamboo.

Can anyone suggest a fast growing well spreading bamboo suitable for
peaty soils?

Thanks,
sara.

You might try Yushania Anceps (Arundinaria anceps). The jungle garden
at Burton Agnes, Driffield, E.Yorks has a very impressive and impenetrable
bamboo hedge round it of this species. Its probably about 4 metres
high, but it doesn't look as if they grew it in a year. Bamboos seem
generally tolerant of most soil types.

John McMillan