Bamboo Removal East Devon
A large mature grove of bamboo located in and around other trees and shrubs, with the added bonus of an underground oil pipe to find.
The bamboo was a grove of approximately 5 x 3 m in size, located in an area running along side a recently laid bound resin path. Rhizomes were already running under the path, causing damage by lifting and cracking the resin surface.
The rhizomes can be seen starting to run under the new path lifting the surface and causing cracking. At this stage the encroachment was relatively minimal but with the rapidly expanding nature of running type rhizomes, and the culms that will emerge from them damge will get much worse very rapidly.
The bamboo appeared to have originated from we believe three pieces of “Clumping Bamboo” these are often planted under the misconception that they do not spread, whilst not at fast as “Running Bamboo” they certainly do spread.
They produce very dense woody clumps of rhizome, in fact quite similar to a tree stump, this dense lump over time gets larger, this in its self can cause significant damge when close to fences, walls or similar. However over time you still get break away running rhizomes that spread laterally, potentially causing damage along the way, but also creating new clumping colonies located remotely.
It would appear that when planted some thought had been given to the fact that it may possibly spread, the clumps were surrounded on the boundary and oil tank side by concrete blocks, the rhizomes had simply gone under, over and around these blocks.
Without significant defences you can not stop bamboo spreading.
The longer bamboo is left to establish the more prolific it grows, more foliage means greater energy to produce larger rhizome mass.
Each year the new culms produced are larger in diameter and taller, until the bamboo reaches maturity.
The photographs show the significant quanity of canes removed along with its foliage, along with the length of one of the canes, many were between seven and eight metres in length, the largest with a diameter of approximately forty millimetres.
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