Advise please…
Hi all could you give me some advise? (UK based)
We bought our first home last year and there’s this bamboo plant at the back boarder. Not massive but I never know bamboo could be problematic but earlier this year I learnt how worse it can get but at the same time I think these are clumping.
Last week I realise shoots are growing, mostly within the clump, while a few grow away from the group. I cut off most shoots immediately as I don’t really want them to grow larger.
Today I followed the shoots and found the rhizome underneath. It passed under the sleeper and one shoot appear on the other raised bed. I haven’t dig deep enough to see where it ends but I can touch it seems going underneath the concrete base of the fence, maybe extending to the neighbour side. I don’t see canes coming up next fence, but I also don’t know if there are shoots on the other side.
I have decided to dig out the whole thing in the next few weeks. I now have cut off the rhizome so it is not connected to the main plant. Will the rhizome still regrow without the main plant and keep extending on to neighbour’s? I don’t want to raise problem with neighbour when it’s not but what’s the best thing to do and/or tell my neighbour?
ps I might just remove the flower bed, and fill with gravel on the boundary so I can monitor better in the next few years.
(I had posted in another r/ yesterday about this, but with an update now)