Lesley Taylor our nurseryman suggested we plant our bamboo inside an old car tyre which we should bury. This apparently stops the shoots taking over. We're goint to try it.
bird designs You can plant rhizome barrier around the bamboo. I believe we dug a three foot deep trench along about 25 foot span of fence. No bamboo has escaped yet. We have running black bamboo, not a clumping variety.