Costalegre Jalisco Mexico

We have this beautiful clump of bamboo in the lot nextdoor and I would love to bring some over eventually. The problem is controlling it's growth. We had it in a garden when I was a kid but remember my parents cussing at it after a few years. I've read on the internet you can box it in with metal or cement but may have to go a meter deep. Anyone have experience with it

Containing the growth is no problem. Just build a planter(s) for it and that will contain it yet you will have the advantage of having what you want in the garden, Using planters you can have multiple stand of bamboo without them being a uncontrolled mess.

cya,
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I've heard they only "travel" withing a few feet of the surface and that walls without a bottom can contain them. Lots more time for research!

My neighbour successfully contained "running" bamboo by planting it in concrete pipe (very large and heavy - must have been sewer pipe) he dug part way into the ground. This type of bamboo will not spread if you contain it to about a foot in depth. He placed the pipes very close together so that the bamboo formed a nice hedge-like privacy barrier. If you don't do this, the stuff will run all over your yard! Here in Victoria, I've seen it poke through sidewalks and driveways...very nasty.

I definitely don't want it running around the yard but the main concern was drainage pipes, septics or drainage fields. I guess with plastic pipe rather than the old cement in short sections it's less of an issue ... but I do want a grey water drain field to save the septic from daily laundry water