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Originally Posted by willravel
- Plant bamboo! If there is a wall of your house that gets a lot of sun but doesn't have large viewing windows, plant some bamboo. It grows very quickly and it can prevent a lot of that heat from reaching your walls. I planted a few years back, just as an experiment, and it grew about a foot a day. Be sure you've got airspace, depending on the type, it can get quite tall.
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This is good advice, but one caveat: Make sure that bamboo is contained, otherwise it will grow, and grow, and grow. It will take over that part of your garden if it is not contained somehow. And don't forget to protect your neighbors from your bamboo if it's near a fenceline--it will spread under the fence.