JimR wrote:

The first year it sleeps
The second year it creeps
The third year it leaps --

And by the time you realize that it's leaping, it's completely out of
control and headed to all your neighbor's property. Been next door to
a bad neighbor that put in bamboo. :-(
Took us years to finally get it all out. It's worse than kudzu or
wisteria!! Any little root takes it upon it's self to get the war
going!!

Tom J