Post #341807 by Son-of-Kelbo on Fri, Nov 2, 2007 7:46 PM

(Hey TS!)

Bamboo Headquarters (mentioned earlier by VRN) at http://www.bambooheadquarters.com has a very informative site. And their staff answers the phone. And offers good advice, not just about species, but about necessary planter sizes per species. Almost ready to buy from them...

I'm looking into this too, so I'll be checking out some of the other links posted here (mahalo!). Apparently all the gleeful warnings are true. Go for the thickest barrier you can find, make sure you go deep enough and leave a 5" lip above ground (you can decorate that w/trim). Clumping or running, you want to contain it.

I can personally attest that an extremely efficient (and attractive) species that will grow like grass and provide a very effective privacy screen is called "Old Hamii" (spellings vary, but it's a phonetic variation of "Oldham". A neighbor a couple blocks away planted it when a three-story apartment building went up behind her back yard about two years ago, and the building is amost totally obscured now... Thick, green, robust, and two-a-half-stories tall (and still growing). Gets pretty bushy, though, so plan on about a 4-5 foot thickness from the property edge when it really takes off.

All that, and some of it's edible. Oooo.

Cheers out,
SOK