Finally got one of these "Blue Dragons"
They seem to becoming slightly more popular. There's two nurseries near me that stock it, and quite a few online places to get it in the UK.

My Vivax seems to be changing too.
Last year I got one green culm, and this year I've got four green ones. I like it though!

Yes, a great climate in Cornwall. No frost really.
Lots of palms and tree ferns in the gardens.
Also the best moso bamboo ive seen. Doesn't get very big normally in the UK.
Chusquea Gigantea also looked great.

Hi all, just thought I'd share a couple of pics of a beautiful clumping boo that I saw last week while visiting a famous garden in Cornwall, UK. It's a Borinda Lushiensis or Yunnan 4. Must be 12m high with a spread of only 1.5m at the base. Love the colour of the culm sheaths. Unfortunately slightly...

John, this is a very difficult question. To me several KRs look similar with respect to culm sheaths, culms, rhizome neck length and nodes: KR 5287, KR 5913, KR 6438, KR 6439, and KR 6791. They might all well be "grossas", on the other hand they are very different in size, uprightness and...

KR 5287 two weeks ago in my garden. Pretty big now, spade for size comparison. Steffen 5287_2_small.jpg 5287_3_small.jpg Wow that's a beauty! How does it handle your winters and what minimum temps do you get? Our record here is -12 in 2010, normal years only -5 or -6. I guess you get a lot colder t...

Hi, this is a Borinda, but very likely not KR 7613. KR 7613 has streaks on it's culm sheaths, it has culm sheaths much shorter than the internodes on elongating culms, and it has smaller leaves (smaller than most other Borindas). Two pics of KR 7613 attached. In addition, it's not true that KR 7613...

Problems with in vitro propagation was an issue 10 years ago, but mainly with leptomorph bamboos like Phyllostachys or Pseudosasa. These plants had many very thin culms and were less hardy. With improved technology it might be different today. I never observed anything negative with pachymorph bamb...

steffen wrote:Hi, this is certainly a Borinda. Can't say which one from the pic. BTW., this Shennongija is just newly introduced Fargesia murielae.
Steffen

Thanks for the reply.
Thought it was a Borinda. Does being propogated in vitro affect hardiness or adult form or anything else really?
Thanks

Hi everyone, I've found this bamboo with blue culms in a local garden centre in UK. It's labelled as Fargesia Blue Dragon. After doing some research on the old internet, this could be either a Borinda KR7613 propogated in-vitro in Belgium, it could be a Fargesia Murieliae clone, it could be Fargesia...

Thanks for the reply. I had just found out what it was before my post went live on the website! Typical, after three days of research as well. Its rough horsetail and can be a big pest. I'd better stop watering it. It's a shame, as I wanted it to be a nice bamboo as we could do with a screen where i...

Hello everyone. Just moved into my new house in York, UK. There is a lovely bamboo in the back garden, but I can't find out what species it is. I'm wanting to know how to manage it and also how tall it will grow. The canes are bright green, with horizontal stripes. Tallest is about five feet high. T...