Basic information: Height: 10 m Culm diameter: 5 cm Hardiness: -24 °C Characteristics: very cold hardy, vigorous, running bamboo, culms are bright yellow with green sulcus young culms turn red when exposed to sun they frequently genuflect, making zig-zag pattern at the base of the culm some of the leaves have white stripe It’s…
Growing bamboo seedlings again I already started a post about growing bamboo seeds again this winter. Among many seeds I ordered online from a Chinese vendor on Aliexpress, I decided to try their bamboo seeds as well. Later I found that most of the received seeds were fake. Instead of stuff I ordered, I…
Not a typical year This year started normally, first shoots appeared in March as they always do. Then strange things started to happen. One of the seedlings (the most variegated one) stopped and refused to shoot until late May or early June, and even then, it only managed to produce a couple of thin…
Unnecessary workout? I decided not to use rhizome barrier on my bamboos and rather risk breaking my back twice a year doing some rhizome pruning. So far, it was not an issue and bamboos failed to take over the garden. So far. This year, weather was ideal for bamboos to grow rapidly above and…