Barrières, Barrières, Barrières (barriers, barriers, barriers)
Two plastic barriers, both broken — one placed at planting, the other after the first failed. Barriers deflect and redirect a rhizome; they do not contain a giant grass.
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They Don’t Always Ask Permission
The aftermath of a home invasion, in plates: the grove that still stands, the rhizome field beneath a whole property, and the front that cannot be seen.
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Le Souffle (the breath)
The rhizome breathes underground, burns oxygen, and when the soil goes airless it surfaces to breathe. Dolphining, read as a signal.
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Trop Près (too close)
Bamboo planted in a two-foot strip on a nursery’s barrier advice — and the underground dragon that confinement makes of it.
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Home Invasion
Bamboo travels from a neighbor’s grove, under a driveway, and into a house — threading between the wall studs and through the floor joists of both storeys.
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A Tale of Two Barriers
A grove of Semiarundinaria fastuosa ‘Viridis’ slips a doubled barrier — not by breaching it, but by growing in the dark seam between its layers.
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Le Déguisement (the disguise)
A dwarf variegated bamboo, planted for color and texture, disguised an aggressive habit — and forced its way through concrete and gravel.
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Le Mur (the wall) et le Bambou
A 500 year old French garden wall has succumbed to an expanding grove of Phyllostachys aurea, Golden Bamboo. The evidence, the diagnosis, and the prescription.
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