After longer dry period we got some rain and 2 days after started grow...as usually moso is first..others phyllo still nothing..but beside moso today i saw dendrocalamus latiflorus is starting also..never earlier for some dendro to start...

hi Alan..yea :) you have even 9b on some islands like Vis and Palagruza..where temps dont fall below 27F..and south part of country around Dubrovnik in rare ocassions(10yrs) 25F for one ore two nights...my garden saw every winter 27-25F for few nights..and in 5-10yrs maybe 23F for one night...dendro...

yea, i am interested too..will it become, with time, normal green...
wow nice growth, healty looking...its best thing about them that they grow like crazy
so for two, three years you can expect something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GqtJFQqbN4

of course..second post, first picture(looks like variegated)..chungi and amounes shouldnt have problems here in my climate

i dont know , will ask him..he wrapped everything in wet paper and than wrapped in nylon, it come in 20 days still wet and fresh..i dont think it will be problems with pooping out soon..they are already in pots in warm, inside house waiting for spring. Thanks 8) will order in some time more chungii ...

two more pics

In Europe, at least in this parts (Croatia) is very difficult to get some live plant or rhizomes of big clumping species like dendros and bambusa. In these few years i think i send over 100 emails to different nurseries in USA and Australia and they all reject me for shipping in europe or shipping c...

thanks, i love to see pictures of species that i can grow! looking forward to see progress with those dendro...
here this one culm is growing, another one is almoast finished..it have this orange colour like latiflorus, who knows what is it at the end....

thanks Nicholas and Tarzanus...i am actualy glad because it means it not this one that i ordered few weeks ago
https://palmi.bg/en/product/820/giant-j ... adake.html

It's a nice plant, even if you can't confirm the species, I thought it was impossible growing D. asper in Italy but if you can there it should be possible here too. Could you give me the name of the seller? On eBay I just found seeds and I don't want even try to start from seed with a Dendrocalamus...

thanks for the info, will do when pass by next time....

manage to get some rhizomes

I ve seen some disscusions is it vivax, viridis or bambusoides maybe even on this forum, but love this bamboo grove.
Just few pics...

thanks i cant wait to watch the garden when bamboo start do dominate
yes Croatia, especialy coast, have some realy beautiful places... i am glad that you love it

yes we all need one pile like that :wink: i know that will eventualy some dendro will burn to the ground with some winter, but i am humble man, i just need few thick shoots per year nothing else :) i got young dendro giganteus that burned two winters ago to the ground at one night 22F(last minus lik...