How to Build a Bamboo Fence

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by Adobestock/Takayan

Learn how to build a bamboo fence using bamboo grown in your garden.

Nothing embodies beauty, simplicity and strength like a bamboo fence. In Japan bamboo fencebuilding is an art form. Yet you don’t have to be an artist, or even particularly handy, to learn how to build a bamboo fence and construct this basic picket design derived from Japanese tea garden fences. It is a pleasure both to build and to behold.

What Bamboo Poles?

If you’re new to bamboo growing, you’ll need to purchase poles from a retailer to make your fence. Either that, or wait a few years until your plantings are ready to harvest. A new planting of bamboo may produce canes of useful size in three to four years, but these canes need to mature for another three years before being harvested for poles. A final option is to harvest poles (with permission, of course) from an established grove in your area.

What Bamboo Fence Design?

  • Updated on Jun 12, 2023
  • Originally Published on Aug 1, 2000
Tagged with: bamboo, fence material
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