Monday, March 26, 2007

To Bamboo or not to Bamboo

Sorry to misinform all of you, the blogging contest doesn't start until May 1st. So you will have to wait to vote, hopefully I can swing your vote my way in the next month. I got a comment from Don Drummond's daughter Diana so I guess that's some sort of weird irony that the family who originally built my house has been up on the progress of my family rebuilding it. Not a lot of big changes have been made lately, I'm in that stage were not a lot has been going on but the place isn't look good enough to take some final photos.....so bear with me. I've been diving headfirst into the landscaping, I don't have as much experience in this field but I guess you could say I have an eye for the way I want things to look with the different layers of plants, colors, heights, textures etc. So it just take me longer to find the plants that I like. We have picked out a couple of Japanese Maples to get the ball rolling. The biggest landscape question at the moment is we have to decide if we want to try and contain some running bamboo. It provides the quickest screening, and the look we want. It will allow our backyard to be completely private, with no views to or from other houses. I'm looking at screening the white house completely with a patch of bamboo. I 'm thinking of trying to try and contain it by burying several 30" diam 36" deep sections of plastic culvert pipe. I found a guy who's willing to give me some yellow groove bamboo, so the price is right and the look is right but it grow s to a height of 30ft. And a s you can see that's right into the power lines, so I will have to trim it every year, the nice thing about bamboo i s once you trim it that stalk doesn't grow any taller, so I would only be trimming the new stalks. Le t me know what you think .

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I say bamboo

bkroll said...

I would do the bamboo. I would like to do some in my yard for the same reasons, a visual and sound barrier frrom 75th out the back. Plus, tall bamboo makes a nice creaking sound when the wind blows.

Anonymous said...

i like the bamboo idea.

also, party on the 7th?

let me know.

steve w

Jess said...

do the bamboo...just make sure it's not going to take over your entire yard. in Austin you HAVE to enclose it with a steel surround, otherwise it spreads like a wildfire.

Steve said...

I’ve heard of people using that corrugated metal stuff to contain bamboo. Just make sure you go deep enough and angle it so the top angles away from the plants, that way any horizontal shoots will meet the metal and ricochet up; not down where it might keep growing and possibly find an escape route. You can also bury a 55-gallon drum as a sort of giant in-ground flower pot.
Your home is amazing! Thanks for the great ideas.

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Anonymous said...

The question is not, to bamboo or not to bamboo but, rather when are you going to update your blog?