On 1 Apr 2007 12:55:23 -0700, "
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The place where I want to cover is a fence facing a road. I don't have
close any neighbors. The closest ones ones are 2 acres away. Something
invasive doesn't matter :-) I've done a little homework about bamboo.
And know about planting it in a trench that been lined with plastic
and filled with dirt.

If you do use bamboo, and you can afford it, black bamboo is just
beautiful. There are other very large varieties which are considered
structural bamboo which is used in Asia to actually build houses, and
their floors, instead of wood, are bamboo.

Check with Zilker Gardens to see if they've had their Bamboo Festival
yet. I wouldn't use common yellow bamboo. It gets really ratty
looking, but really be careful, it is much more invasive when it grows
in our USDA Zone 8b, than you may be reading about. That I know of,
none of the clumping bamboo's stay in a clump in our climate, they all
run to one degree or another.

Maybe Victor has some and knows more.