Rhizomes on clumping bamboo are not as long and grow more slowly, so they are easier to contain. “I would feel comfortable planting a clumping bamboo in my yard,” Campbell says.

Fiona then says, "Start digging a trench around the perimeter of the bamboo clump, going at least a foot deep. As you go, sever any rhizomes you encounter using the axe or a sharp spade.

Answer: To control bamboo effectively, it’s important to understand how it grows. Like Bermuda grass, bamboo grows from radiating rhizomes, which are long roots that radiate out horizontally ...

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Rhizomes can generate new plants as much as 20 feet away from the original plant. They may crowd and eventually exclude adjacent plants, including natives, and threaten biodiversity.

“Running bamboo can aggressively take over yards, traveling and spreading as much as 15-feet horizontally per year as the rhizomes grow underground like tentacles and push up new cane stalks ...

A stand of bamboo sends out rhizomes as it expands across a property in Westport on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Brian A. Pounds.

Rhizomes can generate new plants as much as 20 feet away from the original plant. They may crowd and eventually exclude adjacent plants, including natives, and threaten biodiversity.

Unwanted growth: Critics say the plant is difficult to contain, and some neighbors use it as a natural weapon during disputes WESTPORT -- Talk to a person with a neighbor growing a stand of bamboo ...