You’ll love this! I know a couple that bought their first house. The wife and husband agreed the bamboo privacy hedge was a bit much. So, off the new husband homeowner goes to Home Depot. He buys a bunch of plant poison and sprays it on the bamboo. He was sure this task was over and off to paint his new garage. Nope.. nothing. In fact the bamboo actually looked stronger. Plan 2: He cut all the bamboo down to the ground and then used a series of chemicals to kill it. This little task took him over 2 weeks. Result: the bamboo not only started growing but seemed to thrive. Plan 3: To be fair, at this point of the process, he was beginning to get a little loopy. So, he dug out a trench containing the bamboo roots. He placed some sort of gas down and lit it. Boom... burn! The trench was black as coal and he surely figured he was the winner. A week later.. new bamboo sprouts. Plan 4: After the defeat and near nervous breakdown, the couple sold the house 18 months after moving in. New house? NO BAMBOO anywhere. (My house gift? you guessed it! A bamboo plant)
Great story. At this same farm we have tons of lilac bushes. Funny how you love something and then after cutting them back and living with them for years it’s like, ugg, time to trim the lilacs again. Curse them. But once we were burning yard trash which we can still do out there and it got away from us and burned two of the lilac bushes. We were sort of sad. Now they are the biggest and happiest lilacs out there. Same with the wild roses. I can cut them out and down to the ground but unless we poison and mow them for a year, they come but very happy that we have pruned them back. And I don’t mean that they just sort of come back, they come roaring back and grow up to to a foot er month in the spring and summer.