OK... I recently spent about 16 days in the Philippines. While there, I saw fish ponds and a bunch of other stuff including a lot of bamboo. Bamboo being used for huts, fences, scaffolding, bridges, etc. I also saw some really big bamboo growing high up on tall hillsides.

The uses intrigued me and made me more interested in bamboo. That it was growing so high up and far away from apparent water sources made me more concerned about bamboo spreading and becoming a nuisance.

I know bamboo was discussed here several years ago; but I can't seem to find those discussions via searches. Any new developments or recommendations related to planting bamboo around a pond in the midwest?

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