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After five years, the six five-gallon containers of giant timber bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii) spaced six feet apart had shot up 30 feet. Today, they form a lush 60-foot-tall privacy fence and a dark-green backdrop for the rest of her elegant garden. "The canes and leaves are pretty, and the sound of the wind rustling through them is wonderful," Spitz says. "It’s so much better to have an animated fence than an unchanging block wall."