Bamboo Plant Planting year Comments Bambusa ventricosa 2014 Subtropical* Borinda fungosa 2012 Seedling* Chimonocalamus pallens 2013 Seedlings* Hibanobambusa tranquillans ‘Shiroshima’ 2012 Fargesia rufa 2011 sold as F. murielae Fargesia denudata ‘Lancaster 1’ 2012 Phyllostachys arcana ‘Luteosulcata’ 2015 seedlings Phyllostachys aurea 2011 Aggressive Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘Spectabilis’ 2012 Lamatempel Phyllostachys pubescens ‘Moso’ 2012 Seedling* Pseudosasa…
One of the bamboo characteristics is its shooting date. Some will start shooting in early spring, as soon as the soil starts warming up. Early shooters from my list of bamboos are Fargesia Rufa and Phyllostachys pubescens ‘Moso’ seedling. There are also bamboos that do not like to wake up in the spring, but…
My plan was, to closely monitor weather data and try to spot emergence of cold induced damage on different (more or less) cold hardy bamboos. With gathered data, I’ll be able to determine cold hardiness of each individual bamboo, and detect possible ‘top kill’ conditions or (I sure hope not) conditions where bamboo completely…
