Rachel's Journal

Well if it comes along as well as the mother plant you'll be made...bamboo is great for effect. It must have climbed upwards!?

Yeah, it's travelled uphill!!! Very surprised.

I thought that bamboo was an invasive plant and I was always afraid to plant t in case it took over. I do think they are very lovely when grouped together, they can make a lovely screen.

Rachel I believe it is safer to plant bamboo in a container in the ground if you want to stop it spreading.

rachel between the blue leaved tomatos and the migrating bamboo really SPOOKY!!!!!!!!

nearly as spooky as whenever i put out my freestanding trelisis the winds get really rough and blow them down again and they end up taking shelter in the tunnel, think someone is trying to tell me something in the other world

My bamboo took over a VERY large area. But we dug it up and split it. Gave one clump to a friend and potted up the remainder. Its doing great in spite of now being confined. It creeps up on you without warning. You might be better digging all around the roots and pushing some kind of barrier down to stop it invading.

I'm not worried about the bamboo spreading. It can only go one way - up. The grass where Josh is standing is actually builders' rubble. We put grass sods on it one year when we removed them to make a bed. If it can get through that then fair play. I originally planted it there because I wanted it to take over the hill. Since it hadn't moved for 3-4 years I gave up and planted persicaria. It may still claim the hill if it wants!

your hill looks like a perfect place to plant rampant Lady banks lots of space and nothing she could demolish..