Bamboo Root Boundary Management

Don’t let your bamboo go— let us manage the root mass. Whether you have clumping or running bamboo, we have unique solutions for maintaining bamboo roots within your boundary lines. Clumping bamboo has a solid wooden vertical root structure which grows about 6-12” inches wider each year with new culm growth. When clumping bamboo roots have no more space to grow, they get creative by growing new roots on top of the existing roots, pushing up on objects, like fences or walls and can even pile their roots on a driveway or sidewalk.

Although this happens gradually at no sudden surprise, our service will regularly cut out bamboo root mass (i.e. every other year or when necessary after your bamboo is established) which surpasses your specific boundaries (e.g. keeping root mass 6” away from the fence at all times). This is nothing to be scared of and can be easily managed by our specialists when we service your bamboo. Running bamboo can be contained with root barriers which we can deliver and install for you. We can also clean up any bamboo invasions or remove the running bamboo and replace it with a non-invasive clumping bamboo instead.