Will cut bamboo recover?

My PM asked if she could organise a tidy up of the bamboo at my IP and I was pretty reluctant as the beautiful, established screening was one of the things I loved about this place. Anyway, I just got photos from the latest inspection today and the bamboo has been butchered. I'm just hoping it will eventually grow back to its former glory.

Photos of 'tidied up' bamboo:





Bamboo as it was when I purchased property - same corner of yard as above photo:

 

****en hell, that is a butchering. I don't think the cut pieces will grow again, but new shoots should come from the ground.

 

Bamboo is hardy. It should produce shoots pretty quick. They grow very fast as well

 

The cut culms will never get any taller, though they may sprout new branches.

New shoots may not grow as tall as the cut culms as the loss of most of the leaves will mean they don't get enough energy to grow tall. In time however new shoots will reach the height of the old ones.

 

I would be livid about this and refuse to pay the cost.

 

Looks like it's going to take a while then

 

Unfortunately I've already paid, so I'm not really sure what I can do now.

 

Other than telling them how angry you are and don’t do it again, probably not much

That’s not ‘tidied up’... more like ‘gone’

 

You also have golden cane palms in among there that have been cut in half, i'd be getting everything cut right down to ground level, the trunks remaining are going to die anyway. The new shoots will bush up and fill in again quicker if they don't have to compete against dying branches.

 

A few months ago, I had bamboo cut down like that, (and transplanted) that resprouted leaves. The culms do die back to the nearest node, though.

 

This is correct. However, feed them and water them more often to encourage new growth.

 

Depends on the bamboo. I've had problem bamboo that I cut below ground level and gave a treatment of roundup ... came back stronger than ever.

 

Probably running bamboo, in this case. My advice is about clumping bamboo - looks like that is the kind in the OP as it seems quite compact in growth.

 

A pic just before it was cut would have been interesting, was there actually a reason to butcher it to that extent, certainly lost privacy.

 

The PM just told me the bamboo was 'getting a little out of hand' and I thought it was just going to be tidied up a bit. I can't imagine why anyone thought chopping it off at fence height was necessary. Pretty furious about the loss of privacy as that was one of the selling points when I bought.

 

It grows like a weed. I would get rid of it entirely. Once it gets going it becomes a real problem.

 

This is completely incorrect if it’s clumping bamboo.

 

Agree with @Joynz on this. The running bamboo is the problematic version in built up areas.

 

Yep. That's what my mum was told before it took over the garden.