Anyone ever plant bamboo as a barrier

[TheGardener]

Know of a case where a guy was trying to recuperate from a heart attack, but the neighbor's barking dogs hindered his recovery. He sued in court and won. I know because I worked for the jerk who owned the barking dogs. Boss, wife and dogs finally fled to Switzerland.

You could always call a local animal abuse organization, and report your neighbor. Maybe he'd be more responsible.

 

[skyking]

yea nay on the bamboo

They do make Ivy fences.

Intentionally planting ivy, and thinking it is less invasive than bamboo? OMG!

 

[herm0016]

Intentionally planting ivy, and thinking it is less invasive than bamboo? OMG!

DONT PLANT IVY. this thread is full of bad ideas.


i have spent the last 2 years trying to get rid of English ivy that an old lady let grow all over the house.

 

[purbeast0]

yea nay on the bamboo

They do make Ivy fences.

that is so ugly.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If the dog still barks through the fence I doubt any plant will change that.

 

[skyking]

If the dog still barks through the fence I doubt any plant will change that.

Oh there's foxglove, and nightshade,......

I Keed I keed

 

[highland145]

Intentionally planting ivy, and thinking it is less invasive than bamboo? OMG!

Think I'll intentionally plant smilax around the neighborhood....Oh, wait, that crap is already taking over the neighborhood.

 

[SagaLore]

just move

 

[MarkXIX]

I always wanted to weave a bamboo fence by criss-crossing the stalks into a lattice pattern. Damn....

 

[Imp]

Some guy told me that he knew someone named Charlie who did that.

 

[highland145]

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[lxskllr]

that is so ugly.

I think it looks good, but fuck ivy. Vines are the bane of my existence. I have at least 5 different varieties growing on my property, and they're all sons of bitches, especially the poison :^S

 

[Grooveriding]

Yes, caught this guy in my backyard and set up a barrier.

 

[highland145]

lol...I think...

 

[NetWareHead]

DONT PLANT IVY. this thread is full of bad ideas.


i have spent the last 2 years trying to get rid of English ivy that an old lady let grow all over the house.

This. Ivy is also as invasive as hell, albeit not as bad as bamboo. My neighbor complains that she has to rip it out every year as it tries to grow up the side of her house and take over a lawn.

 

[Anubis]

yea nay on the bamboo

They do make Ivy fences.

this only works if you have a team of gardners/groundskeepers keeping that shit at bay every day or so

 

[highland145]

this only works if you have a team of gardners/groundskeepers keeping that shit at bay every day or so

Not seeing the problem. This is ATOT, after all.

 

[MiniDoom]

horrible idea.

 

[nageov3t]

this only works if you have a team of gardners/groundskeepers keeping that shit at bay every day or so

yeah... I dated a guy once who lived in a big old apartment building with picturesque ivy growing up the sides.

at the beginning, there was maybe a tendril of ivy outside his bedroom window. by the end of his first year's lease, he barely got any sunlight whatsoever through the window and the screens were shot from ivy pushing through.

 

[SP33Demon]

I think it looks good, but fuck ivy. Vines are the bane of my existence. I have at least 5 different varieties growing on my property, and they're all sons of bitches, especially the poison :^S

Yeah I also thought the ivy looked good, but if that's invasive too then nah. I can only afford 4 landscapers, going up to 10 can't happen this year since I just bought a G5 jet.

 

[GasX]

there are two types of bamboo - clumping and running

running bamboo is your worst nightmare

clumping bamboo is controllable

 

[Thebobo]

Intentionally planting ivy, and thinking it is less invasive than bamboo? OMG!

Yes because it is something you can use a hedge trimmer on just like any other live hedge.

 

[Harrod]

We have some that has been encroaching in our back yard, it's taken about 6 years of pulling the shoots up to kill it off, as well as spraying it down with roundup on the other side of the fence. Whats really weird is no one seems to know who planted the stuff. We have a church that borders our property that says they didn't do it. And the old lady next to us didn't plant it either. So I guess it was the previous owners. This is the running type. We will often have a shoot come up 20 feet from the fence.

 

[NetWareHead]

Yes because it is something you can use a hedge trimmer on just like any other live hedge.

Not 100% true. You can keep it trimmed but it wont stop the spread entirely. Ivy spreads by means of roots which grow and develop along the entire lenght of the stems. You cant use a hedge trimmer to eradicate the roots. They need to be dug out or hit with roundup etc...

 

[MetalMat]

Don't even think about doing it. Bamboo can quickly grow crazy out of control and is a pain in the ass to get rid of. Back in college I helped a friend get rid of bamboo in his back yard and it was a nightmare, we never could get rid of it permanent.