My bamboo covered with snow

[skyjets]

Hello,

The snow has finally arrived.
I hope that the snow will make a good protection for my bamboo.

Here are some pictures:



and here's a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3te_ri6wLDk

and if you have any advice do not hesitate:)
Math

[Alan_L]

With a little deeper snow cover, they'll be just fine.

We got just a small amount of sticky snow, but it still makes the bamboo look pretty I think:





More photos here: http://www.itsnotworkitsgardening.com/2 ... amboo.html

[gbock]

Thank you for posting these beautiful photos. Nothing better than bamboo and freshly fallen snow! (Says a guy who lives in area that never gets snow.)

[gbock]

Here's my contribution to this thread. All photos taken this morning at my in-laws in Mount Shasta, Northern California (zone 7b).

Phyllostachys angusta:




Phyllostachys vivax aureocaulis:




Chusquea gigantea:




More photos at http://bambutopia.blogspot.com/2010/11/ ... -snow.html.

[ocimum_nate]

Phyllostachys rubromarginata

Fargesia dracocephala 'Rufa'

Fargesia dracocephala 'Rufa'

[Iowaboo]

Snow bamboo

[GrowingHabit]

Lance, I don't think that's a picture of bamboo. I think what you have there is a picture of creatures. Who died. Maybe after escaping a movie staring Sigourney Weaver.

[Iowaboo]

[stevelau1911]

It came on all at once for me. I was hoping for a light dusting to stick on the leaves, but they look more like snow sculptures. They should look like bumps in the snow by the middle of winter, except for maybe the yellow groove and atrovaginata.

All my bamboos are still fairly juvenile and still flexible so it looks like they have no problem getting bent all the way to the ground from wet snow that sticks however next year, I'm expecting some of them to be 1 inch or larger in diameter and hope that these ice storms don't cause culm breakage in the middle of winter.

Moso


Moso seedling


Parvifolia


Parvifolia


Atrovaginata

[needmore]

My turn...

[Alan_L]

Brad: in that second one, is that your Phy. aureosulcata 'Aureocaulis' in the middle there? And what's the big culm in the foreground?

[needmore]

In the center is Aureocaulis with Atrovaginata above/behind it, the culm in the foreground is Phy. viridis.

EDIT: - There is also a bit of A gigantea and Phy parvifolia in the photo.

[philippe smets]

thanks for these nice pictures needmore,

ps: many people ask for you on the french forum

[needmore]

thanks for these nice pictures needmore,

ps: many people ask for you on the french forum

Philippe - I still sometimes have a problem with the login at the French forum, only sometimes not always. It asks me for my password and when I provide it, I must have the wrong password. Then my problem is my very slow internet connection so the posts I can not wait to translate into English or view the ones with photographs they take too long for me to wait!

[Iowaboo]

That snow should help it get colder