- Bamboo Plants
Bamboos are aggressive plants that can spread fast due to their fast-spreading rhizomes. If you are in need of a privacy screen, bamboo trees can do the job while adding security and shade. Due to their aggressiveness, you can plant bamboo trees in their plastic pots or tubs to prevent the rhizomes from invading the neighboring lawns. You can also dig trenches and pour a layer of concrete to surround the areas where you will plant them, in order to keep them from spreading all over your garden. There are also rhizome-barrier materials that come in sheets between 30 to 60 millimeters thick that you can install in a 28-inch deep trench. You can find fast-growing bamboos, such as the "Phyllostachys vivax," which are cold hardy and very beautiful with abundant large green leaves. - Harvested Bamboos
Although bamboo trees are not high maintenance by nature, check on the wayward roots or rhizomes from time to time to prevent them from invading your garden, or worse, your neighbor's garden. In addition, if you are planning to install a perimeter fence, it may be a better idea to use harvested bamboo poles instead of live bamboo trees to lower the material costs and lessen the maintenance.
Harvested bamboo poles used as fences come in two main types. One type comes in individual bamboo pole that you install one at a time. This is more expensive and time-consuming than the other type of harvested bamboo fence, which comes in rolls of bamboo shoots or split canes of bamboos held together with wire woven between each slat.
When installing harvested bamboos, make sure not to let them touch the ground, so they will not rot. This way, they can last longer. Harvested bamboos can last as long as 20 years with proper installation and care. - Harvested Bamboo Fence
The best way to install the harvested bamboos are over an existing fence, whether wood, chain link or wire. To keep the bottom part of the bamboo fence from touching the ground, attach each roll or each piece of bamboo pole with binding twines on the old fence, at least 4 to 5 inches above the ground. If the binding twine is not sturdy enough, you can also use zip ties.
If you do not have an existing fence, install posts that are made of solid wood, which have top and bottom rails in order to support the fence. Install each bamboo pole using galvanized wire, and then line up each pole vertically close to each other. In the case of rolled split canes, use a wooden post to support them every 3 to 4 feet to keep them sturdy. Pour concrete in a 6-inch deep trench to insert your wooden post, and then dry before adding the bamboo fence.
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