Never Underestimate Bamboo !
Who would of thought that four small clumps of bamboo clould be unleasing their huge potential in such a way.
With a quick glance, these bamboo clumps seem prefectly fine, small, seemingly inder control, providing good privacy screening. That is till you take a closer look.
They have already encroached into a neighbouring garden, with the rhizomes already one metre into the lawn. An increasing number of rhizomes spreading into our clients lawn by a distance of over two metres.
However most worrying of all, extensive rhizomes now very much under the recently created raised decking.
Canes sprouting with diametres of up to approximately 25mm these have the potential to cause significant physical damage to the decking.
If this had been left any longer it is fairly safe to say that the decking area would have needed removing to enable the rhizome removal.
Leave bamboo at your peril, each year it is left, the removal costs will increase.
The photographs show how the rhizome mass expands out under the grass, increasing in size invisibly.
Your first awareness will be when canes start sprouting up through the lawn.
From that point forward matters will just get worse.