Yardsmart: Bamboo is pernicious and persistent

Bedbugs and bamboo are pernicious and persistent. They’re both foreign life forms that manage to enter our homes unnoticed, and then make life a living hell. One man in New Jersey discovered that the bamboo running wild at his house would cost up to $10,000 to remove. Making a house bedbug-free can be equally pricey. What both organisms share is an amazing tenacity to survive fire, flood, climate change, chemicals and even heavy equipment.
Like bedbugs, bamboo loves to travel. It moves — [...]