my DH planted the running kind of bamboo-- as it was heading towards the
pond, I read what bamboo can do and he put in a below ground fence of
roof flashing to keep it from the pond-- the roots are very near the
surface. This has saved us and we have a lot of privacy between our
house and the neighbor's house-- but I am sure whoever lives here after
us will curse us every day of their lives!! We could use a visit from
a panda.

"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth." John
Singer Sargent