In 1988 I took a tiny sprig of bamboo home and planted it in the corner of my father's vegetable garden so that he would have a free source of bamboo canes to use as stakes in his garden. Two years later he was very unhappy with what I had done. The bamboo was uncontrollable and unstoppable. UNREAL invasive and can even travel UNDER driveways to spread to the other side. Just try to stop it once it has established itself. You can not. No amount of digging or herbicides can stop it once it has taken a good grip with its rhizomes root system. I would ONLY recommend planting it if you have lots of acres of land and do not care if great portions of it are overtaken by this beautiful but uncontrollabel plant.
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