My neighbor’s bamboo costs me thousands … but he doesn’t care – here is why

Bamboo is often favored by gardeners as a stylish way to offer privacy of the curious eyes of neighbors.

But although the long shoots and exotic leaves can add flair to an everyday lawn – the invasive roots can cause chaos for your garden and house.

Paul Wilkinson, who lives New South WalesAustralia has claimed that the ‘disturbing’ bamboo of his neighbor costs him thousands.

Mr. Wilkinson told Yahoo News That he spent almost $ 3,000 to reverse the damage of a bamboo plant that he says his neighbor was planted for the first time five years ago.

At that time he claims that it has almost doubled in size, is nine meters long and his two -storey house completely overshadowed.

The worst thing is that, despite beg with his neighbor to manage the factory, who, according to him, often leaves his property empty, since it is a holiday home, Mr. Wilkinson is on it that he simply ‘doesn’t care’.

And while the flora continues to grow rapidly, Mr. Wilkinson is forced to deal with an abundance of bamboo leaves that constantly fall on his footpath.

He even spent up to $ 12,000 on 29 solar panels on his roof that is now blocking the large factory, “considerably limit his desired savings of the force bill.

Mr. Wilkinson had hoped that his neighbor would be ‘reasonable’ after his last power account came ‘nearly a thousand dollars’.

He added: ‘I understand that he is looking for a certain degree of privacy, but most of the foliage is on the top third part of the plant, so if I am actually on my veranda, I can still look through the bamboo at the pool.

“If this were to be reduced, it would be at eye level to offer privacy.”

Wilkinson insists that he asked his neighbor in June if they could discuss the bamboo that was reduced to an acceptable height.

Despite the guarantees, he has not seen or heard anything since then.

After having exhausted all the other options, the Australian homeowner has now paid almost $ 3,000 in legal costs to submit an application to the Land And Environment Court in an attempt to get the factory back with violence.

Bamboo is a matter that is shared by gardeners around the world and the reputation of Mr. Wilkinson comes after MailOnline spoke with a homeowner in Great Britain about her gardenwoe.

The woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, discovered 350 square meters of bamboo grew underground when purchasing a new house in the England countryside.

After further investigating the sellers, she discovered that the garden had previously invaded with ten meters high bamboo. Although they had a local contractor who removes the factory, it is a complicated procedure that was not done properly.

Instead, the bamboo had started to grow and spread next to it, a problem that the new owner thought she was deliberately passed on to her.

So before he bought the property, she decided to have a bamboo country meter offer a quote for how much it would cost to remove the entire factory.

With a maintenance of ten years, it eventually became an eye-watery £ 11k, which concerned five days of work.

She shared her suspicions with MailOnline, said: ‘The owners knew it [about the bamboo] But I think their plan was to sell it with the bamboo and not to do anything about it.

“In my work I have to deal with places with a Japanese bangweed, so I know what to look for.”

Emily Grant of Environet, an invasive factory management company, also told MailOnline how bamboo is A ‘huge problem’ within the UK, with an increase in demand for bamboo-related work in the last three years’ 900 percent. ‘

Moreover, Mrs. Grant explained that there is a lack of consciousness in the United Kingdom about the ‘problematic’ bamboo dangers, where many still choose to use it as a tactic to block around properties.

Instead, homeowners are that Bewed with a different invasive species: Japanese knotweed, with 73 percent of people who believe it is more harmful than bamboo.

Furthermore, the extent of possible damage caused by Bamboo, Callum Hurst, director of CH Enviro, Specialized in invasive plant removalsaid:

‘If you are dealing with bamboo root sticks, it is a lot more aggressive and it is a lot hardy and it can cause much more damage to concrete and it can manipulate those cracks much faster than Japanese nodes.

‘I have been dealing with Japanese nodes for about 13 years and there have only been a few cases in which I have seen it cause structural damage.

‘But with bamboo it will tear patios, it will be damaged by waste pipes and underground services that it can get in the foot of a building and the cavities that it can grow up between the wall cavities.

“I saw it spread from one garden to two properties, it tore the entire terrace, the waste pipes and it spread throughout the lawn, which was about 10 meters spread.”

Although he is not officially classified as an invasive species in the UK, Bamboo can spread faster and further than the well -known Japanese junctions.

Stronger than steel, the plant can even reach up to 28 thousand pounds per square inch tensile strength. It will be an urgent issue because it is approaching his ‘lag period’.