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Usually listed as about three/four degrees difference as far as hardiness. Anyone have any practical knowledge of B. Textilis performance in marginal zones? Roy?

I feel like Lance and the rest of you "northern" guys now, wanting to push the envelope... Hoping to use some of the same techniques though to push a zone or so. No way to bury in snow here though, must use pine straw or leaves.

BTW: Planted nine multipex last spring (species, AK, Slverstripe) all kicking a** so far, but no temps lower than 25 or so. AK is simply stunning in the, low in the sky, winter sunshine! Culms almost glow...

73 yesterday, 72 today but 50's and rain for the forecast.

In my zone 8 textilis seems to be the hardiest clumper of size,but the multiplexes have it beat by at least a few degrees,, I dont quite have my textilis yet but I know that its slightly hardier than the tuldoides which I do have and they get leaf kill every year so far ,while the multiplexes dont,

An even more precise comparison:

I forgot about four B. multiplex "Fern Leaf". They are hanging in there but look a little rattier than the other nine. The nine came from JB at BP while the Fern Leaf came from a local nursery from ???

Jim's TLC is probably the biggest factor, that dude knows how to grow boo!!!

In my climate multiplex is cold hardier than textilis. Here, textilis starts to get leaf damge below 20F and is top killed below 15F. Multiplex starts to get leaf damage around 15f to 12F and wasn't completely top killed be my coldest (so far) winter low of 9F. Of the multiplex cultivars I am growing, Alphonse Karr is the least cold hardy and a 9 year old plant was killed by a recent winter with two 14F lows (in Dec and Jan). Bambusa emiensis appears to be fairly comparable to textilis in its cold hardiness.