Does anyone know anything about gardening?

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aggi

Following on from earlier bamboo chat I'm pondering a stretch of bamboo plants to cover our ugly back fence. Would need to be about 4m wide and 2.5m tall and cope OK with the shade.

Seen a few places that sell bundles of plants for this purpose but they all tend to be about 1m tall. How quickly does bamboo grow, would we be waiting years for it to get tall enough, also how quickly would it fan out to cover horizontally? Cheers

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Sam_w in reply to @aggi

As a rough rule of thumb, clump forming bamboos tend to grow 30-60cm (1-2 feet) taller each year with running varieties growing 90cm-1.5 metres (3-5 feet) taller each year.

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aggi in reply to @Sam_w

Cheers, much more useful than the webpage I was looking at. Think I'd be looking at clumping ones to minimise the risk of them taking over.

@cozey where did you buy the large ones from?

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