Susie, if you plant on the 'lot-line' you can bet the stuff will explode w/growth all over onto your side...I had a neighbor did that w/palm trees and they have taken over several feet on my side and every time I go out I have to pull them up, not to mention all the palm-fronds dropping onto my garden... maybe you can talk her into planting them 20 feet back??? back into HER yard??? LOL....sally

The ID will be the telling point. If it is a clumping type, you will be semi-safe. If it is a running type... well... keep your machete sharp and close at hand. Unfortunately, that's about the extent of what I know about bamboo, so I can't help with an actual ID. It does look like one of the skinny varieties of bamboo though.

I'd be very wary of the variety! If it's running bamboo, forget it!! You want a tight clumping variety, even then it's going to spread. Did you ever see the pictures of tom's???

People build concrete/metal barriers for bamboo for a reason and wow, that's already a big root ball, I think, looks like a 10+ gallon pot. Nothing personal toward you, your neighbor, eye of the beholder, but this beholder thinks this plant is ugly as shown. So many beautiful plants will grow in FL. Doesn't look like this would block the view, if that's the point of a lot-line planting.

Thanks Everybody for the opinions (which happen to match mine!)
So, since you know it's bamboo and I know bamboo can be invasive, and we can tell it's not gonna screen very much, I will suggest my neighbor to just leave it in its pot.
I'll even give it some of my worm compost to help it look a little better, even though it's not on my side of her house. And maybe find her something else to put in the ground, like you said, Leekle, that's better lookin'.

Thanks again!

Susie

Before letting them plant that bamboo find out it's the clumping or running variety. If it's the clumping variety it might look better once established in the ground. If it's the running variety try to convice them to plant something else. Running bamboo can be really invasive and hard to remove.

Thanks, Kara...
Since I don't know how to find out which variety this thing is, I'm just gonna play it safe and assume it's not the good kind.
Even though it wouldn't affect my yard, my neighbor can't plant it so it would be me digging the hole and doing the planting. So I have already planted a crinum with some guara around it in her front yard...and we will leave the bamboo in its big container.