"johngood ............." wrote in message
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"echinosum" wrote in message
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johngood .............;731468 Wrote:
We have a small garden in north london. About fourteen years ago i
planted
lots of bamboo plants around the perimeter, but they are now well out
of
control, and I'm *very very very* busy trying to get rid of it.

Since I like to 'hide' with foliage the wooden fences on both sides,
what
plant am i best using to now to hide the fence?

Preferably something evergreen without invasive roots and not requiring
too
much pruning or attention and 'not' taking over everywhere after a few

years? Thanks for any advice.
Do you know what kind of bamboo it is? If it is a desirable one, you
could pot it up and sell it on ebay. Or find someone who would come
round, dig it up for you and sell it, though obviously they would keep
the money.

Plenty of evergreen hedges that won't send up suckers, though they all
require maintenance: holly, yew, privet, pyracantha (choose variety
carefully), laurel, box... In fact many evergreen shrubs will do the
job, why not be the first person with a Tasmanian pepper bush (Drimys
lanceolata) hedge? The slower growing, the less maintenance, but the
longer to get a hedge. Just don't use that coniferous stuff.

There are in fact a few kinds of bamboo that would do you a hedge
without being invasive - you evidently were poorly advised.
echinosum

Many thanks. Any idea where might i get detailed information on what
type of bamboo i could use for *non-invasive* hedging, since i do like
bamboo.

Why do you advise against coniferous hedge ?

Other plants find it hard to grow near one but the main reason is most can
not be cut back very hard and always end up getting too big in smaller
gardens (they are find where there is space to allow them to grow)

--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cultivars