Most vigorous plants are hard to remove when removing half heartily. But if the plant has no leaves, then it will die. But the problem for me started when a vehicle crashed, carrying a tank of radioactive material. The plant seemed to evolve some kind of intelligence. It quickly covered both sides o...

As a person has absorbed everything they need to know, they are going to spend less time here, so seems natural you would not spend as much time here. Most of the people that joined this site in the first years are long gone. But even so with new people around, its pretty easy to tell if they are in...

I'm surprised that is the one is being grown.

one of the very few benefits of my dwarf bamboo is that I don't have problems with ice damage.

I keep makinoi under full sun, but I've never protected it before as I've wanted to see its true hardiness, and it seems to be less hardy than most of my bamboos as leaf damage can occur at around +4F which is only hardy enough for the warmest winters here. Iowaboo, it looks like if you get 1 zone ...

' that state east of Davenport. Here the spring freeze also turned some early shoots into mush. The aureosulcata here is a newer addition than the tallest bamboo here, a parvifolia that's had exclusive use of a raised bed. my parvifolia has special place, too- on south side of house, I'll have to m...

Here's my Beijing, holding on to dear life. (It's there...look closely) I've had high hopes for this plant, but if it turns out to be an average screener like Bissetii, then ... even more disappointed :( Everyone, pray for my Beijing... I have a piece that looks like that too, think is 2, maybe 3 y...

Growing bamboo in this windswept zone, I'm obviously motivated to torture them at times. :twisted: Perhaps only Lance (Iowaboo) is more punishing with his bamboo. :wink: what state do you torture yours in? Since last winter was mild, I had a good percentage of top growth survive on my bamboo, but t...

Sounds like a good plan, perennial biomass is better than the annual stuff. So far, Arundo donax has been my tallest grass, in 15-20' range, and it didn't take a long time to get there. Though that clump was taken out by the cold one winter, so is only marginally hardy in my cold zone.

its a nice plant, I need to move some of mine in a better location, because gets blunt of winter winds, though starting to go in the road ditch.

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biodegradable is cool, maybe make them edible too so can biodegrade in my stomach.

So did you ever find the elusive boo

funny pics, I don't recall having any noteworthy

Maybe attach a kite to one of the culms during a storm