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- Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:08 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: red margin bamboo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2546
Re: red margin bamboo
Bamboo rhizomes will indeed pierce a pond liner if given the chance to do so.
- Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:28 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Identification
- Topic: Bamboo ID
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1851
Re: Bamboo ID
Greetings, it's hard for me to say what you have, I think it most likely that it is Phy edulis, but in either case I think that the hardiness is quite similar between your 2 possible species based on my experience growing them both in USDA zone 5b/6a - most winters both would die fully back at my pl...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:31 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: red margin bamboo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2546
Re: red margin bamboo
But none of them can be planted in wet soils, they can be planted near wet soils and they might spread into them, but directly plant rhizomes in wet soils and I would expect them all to flunk...
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:13 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1163
Re: Hello
Tony, nice to hear from you! Although growing bamboo in the UK looks challenging, you can grow a wide range of species and forms so I look forward to any pictures you may post. Too bad that the forum at this point is all but dead, once upon a time it was quite vibrant but now hardly anyone remains s...
- Thu Jun 09, 2022 4:27 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Bamboo Shooting Above Ground
- Replies: 1
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Re: Bamboo Shooting Above Ground
Here I can't dig any holes as I'm essentially on solid lava, so I have to plant in mounds. After reading about it, I filed away that I should be careful when I add more to the mounds, add to the diameter not the height so much, being careful not to just pile it up on the existing mound or what your ...
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:20 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
- Replies: 76
- Views: 51431
Re: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
Right, I can't see from the photo but suggesting that he check for that, irrelevant if both have them though!
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:09 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
- Replies: 76
- Views: 51431
Re: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
Wouldn't Moso have large oral setae on young plants? Dunno, maybe Beijing does as well.
- Sun May 29, 2022 4:19 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Spectabilis in Zone 6a
- Replies: 2
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Re: Spectabilis in Zone 6a
It should do well in zone 6a, in my z6a it really sized up quite nicely
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- Fri May 27, 2022 7:51 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
- Replies: 76
- Views: 51431
Re: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
I left my Indiana place in summer 2015 and my Beijing had been flowering then, I was considering it to be Li Yu Gan though and not Beijing but maybe both the same plant.
- Mon May 23, 2022 2:48 am
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: A moment of silence for all the dead and dying bamboos
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5741
Re: A moment of silence for all the dead and dying bamboos
I don't miss that cycle, hope you get some decent culms this year.
- Thu May 19, 2022 3:52 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
- Replies: 76
- Views: 51431
Re: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
Obviously I can't say what that is but juvy Moso shoots might not be hairy, I grew some from seedlings and they were not hairy for a couple years amd lots of them started out with narrow leaves that had white stripes, the stripes always faded away.
- Mon May 16, 2022 5:16 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bambusa nana
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6810
Re: Bambusa nana
New shoot photos, nice dark maroon ring on this batch.
- Sat May 14, 2022 11:26 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: C. Gigantea seedlings
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1384
Re: C. Gigantea seedlings
Crazy. Hope they take off and you have interesting new variants!
- Wed May 11, 2022 4:04 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: About a year
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2884
Re: About a year
My Hitam looks about like yours except for the big shoot so far.
- Sun May 01, 2022 4:59 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: About a year
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2884
Re: About a year
One of my unknown types is pushing 3' shoots at about 18 months, I think it might be D brandseii instead of G atter, first photo is shortly after buying it.