, can grow over three feet a day. That means that well within a year, it can hit its maximum height of 60 feet.
Cutting these back may offer only a temporary reprieve as the rhizomes merely send out further branches. To anyone who has battled bindweed, or the dreaded A few centuries later, ships returning from North America inadvertently released slipper limpets into the coast around Essex. These invasive molluscs can smother and starve native shellfish and outcompete oysters. They have since become established across South England and South Wales. Such is the risk those pose, it is an offence to release live slipper limpets into the wild..
We may be hearing more about bamboo in the future. That’s not because of its risk to house prices, though; it’s because it can be a natural solution to problems caused by climate change.