Hello All. I will purchase bamboo from netherland for future growing in my house for future landing in my garden. I'm living nearby Kiev city. It's too late to landing bamboo right now. With light I should use for growing bamboo? 1. General use HPS? 2. HPS for growing (more light in blue area spectrum). 3. General use metal halide. 4. Metal halide for growing. I'm expect that number 2 is the best choise but it's only because I'm think that the green spectrum in light do noting for growing. And sodium lamp have no ultraviolet light (or have much less) that MH. So it's no smell ozone or nitrogen oxides.

If the masonry wall is as deep as the bottom of the barrier, there is no need to form a complete ring around the bamboo. While it is possible that a rhizome could run along the masonry wall and then squeeze in behind the barrier and get out, that's not a huge risk, and would be easily remedied once it was spotted. If it were me, I'd install it just as you've drawn it, but with only a foot or so of overlap against the concrete on either end. Having more overlap does nothing, and just makes it harder to deal with a rhizome that goes between the barrier and the wall. On the other hand, if you want to completely encircle it, have the lap seam at the front so that it is easier to deal with a rhizome that escapes between the overlap. People who are really paranoid close the lap with a pair of stainless steel bars bolted together, but I consider that to be overkill.

Check out the all the bamboo at the Albuquerque Botanic Gardens. No idea which species, but running and clumping well represented in multiple large stands there. The largest is back by the Heritage Farm area, covering many thousands of square feet in area. This stand at least appears to be on it's own, having a naturalized look and being well outside the groomed area of the Gardens. None of these bamboos are like the monsters you see in their native habitat, (Even in more favorable East Coast climates I've never seen anything over 2 inches diameter) but definitely proof that very nice bamboo stands are possible in NM at least.

Galvanized metal troughs work perfectly...until the bamboo inevitably gets rootbound and starts dying. Then you have a large container of sickly and dead bamboo that weighs hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pounds. Because of the dense woody structure of the rhizomes, it will be impossible to get the plant out of the trough without destroying the container. It will be nice for a number of years, but just be prepared to deal with the predictable consequences. I have a friend who went even further. He bought a large, steel, cylindrical tank for containment, and buried it in his backyard. Fast forward several years and he then had a container of roots and dirt and dead bamboo that weighed so much that there was no way he could excavate around it and lift it out of the ground. So now he has a 2' diameter cylindrical area in his yard where nothing will grow.