[Tilted Irish Kilt]

momtothree:".. It’s dead.. or so he thought. The following Friday, sprouting up from the black ashes of the trench was bamboo sprouts.
Thicker, greener and healthier than ever before!
That Friday night as he polished off a six pack, he decided “bamboo is functional.
It is pretty. It’s a great privacy hedge”. It remains there today"

You owe me a new keyboard as I laughed soooo hard !
Bamboo spreads by rhizomes and mini-rootletts.
It can become invasive, unless the roots are restrained and confined. Plan on digging down 2 - 2 1/2 feet with an impermerable barrier.
I have seen bamboo used as a visual hedge as far north as Northern Ohio, in Amish country, close to Lake Erie shores.

[Ellendra]

I have seen bamboo used as a visual hedge as far north as Northern Ohio, in Amish country, close to Lake Erie shores.

Better kick that north a few miles, there's a house on the next block that has a bamboo hedge, and that's in Madistan, Wisconsin! Must be a clumping variety, because it hasn't popped up in odd places but it does seem to be sneaking slowly over the boundary lines.

I keep thinking I should stop and ask for a few starter pieces. Whenever I've ordered bamboo it's always dead on arrival.