Bamboo as a living privacy screen

There are non-running, clumping varieties, but they're still quite thick and shrubby, with a fairly unkempt appearance. Is the wooden fence not tall enough? You could do a row of a fabric or lattice privacy screen atop the fence. If the fence is too "see thru", add a layer of bamboo roll fencing tacked to the existing fence.

I'd plant a very shrubby, very thorny climbing rose to grow on the fence.

EL OH EL check the other bamboo thread on here..its on like page 3

There’s a house outside my neighborhood that has a similar setup. Driveway is about 10’ wide and it seems to keep his bamboo contained to one side...and it’s invaded his neighbor’s yard. The neighbor is usually dogcussing the shite out of the bamboo when I run that way. I’m fairly certain they used running bamboo and not clumping.

i totally get it. Nothing beats a field of bamboo stalks in a rock bed. it looks AMAZING.

my uncle told me after his bamboo attacked his neighbors relentlessly he would only ever grow bamboo again in a buried stainless steel bathtub with edges that were flush with the ground so he could see any runners escaping.

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What is he doing on the other side that disgusts you so?

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I added a back porch onto my house and apparently he is unhappy about it. He now is raising his blinds and curtains, has a college kid lights around the windows and a disco light going in one room with a mannequin staring into my deck from one window. Every time I have people over he is staring at us through one of the windows. We waved at him last night and he started muttering something (couldn't hear) and looked like throwing up gang signs or something. (he's like mid 60s)

Literally stared at us for 3 hours. I'd just rather not have to deal with the creepy crazy old guy who lives off the rent of 5 other men in his house staring at me and making obscene gestures at me all the time.

He's probably also pissed I cut down his 2 crap weeds that turned into trees down that broke my fence and was about to knock down my shed and his shed.

I swear he is on drugs or drunk every minute of the day.

I'm gonna run up to the bamboo place on the northshore. They have a zillion varieties and can hopefully point me in the right direction.

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has a college kid lights around the windows and a disco light going in one room with a mannequin staring into my deck from one window.

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I need a pic of the mannequin-sounds awesome.

I'm sending one of my forestry mulchers next week to mow down a 4+ acre lot (maybe bigger, not sure yet) of cane with a diameter equal to that of a folgers coffee can.

Same thing: 20 years ago the guy thought he needed some privacy.

Then he got sick for a long while.

Then he died.

Nice place, other than the cane that nobody stayed on top of, specially after he got sick; now his kids are having a problem selling it because of the invasive nature of the cane and the way the property looks and is perceived because of it.

That's where I come in.

I'll net a minimum of $5000 IF they're lucky- just to get their problem to the point of "manageable." After the monstrous thicket is mowed down, they better hope that some idiot buys it; because if they don't, they better have a bushhog handy every spring, and, preferably, if it were me, a total burn down mix of herbicide to sterilize the soil.

Even then it's not a guarantee.

Do. Not. Graft. Cane. Into. Your. Property's. Dirt.

Or you'll be sorry.

But I won't.

*Hate to sound like an overly dramatic smartazz, but it's true. Don't do it man. Plant some redbud or cedar or something, but do not plant cane.