Being a slow start here, but things looking up.

Would you rule out Semiarundinaria fastuosa viridis in inmature form? Any more recent pictures? I would, the branch pattern doesn't match, both angle and number. A young plant would also be up-sizing pretty quick, they'd be the odd taller and bigger culms amongst the younger smaller stuff. If you l...

It seems like murielae is even more sensitive to the sun than nitida. :shock: And you've come to this conclusion based on what exactly.... Hopefully it's ten years growing both to maturity, under various conditions etc. Must have been from the very last flowering on planet Earth! Still got one flow...

welcome

Are whips a function of juvenility and not to be seen when Phyllos have matured? Do other leptomorphs produce whip shoots or are they unique to Genus Phyllostachys? Yes, it's a phase that young juvenile plants go through- how long that phase lasts is variable and down to growing conditions. Whipsho...

Brad- I've got three bashania here, but one has completely vanished :? I've just gone to check on them and it's gone- the space is now home to an spreading yushania. It wasn't doing the best the last time I saw it but now it's just gone...!!! Still messing around with this phone camera so took a cou...

Just to say one of the kids has lost my camera so this is a mobile phone jobby- hard to get a good pic but I've no choice at the mo....

Loving this plant, IMHO one of the best clumpers ( for northern folks at least :wink: ) Hard to get some scale into the pic but you can just see a seat and table on the left, the whole plant must be at least 30 foot wide and 18 foot tall. Good size and without a rhizome in sight :mrgreen: http://i36...

The three mentioned are similar but grow quite different over here. As with most the differences have become more pronounced as they've sized up. Arundinaria funghomii-(suffers winter damage here-with visible winter damage) http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo102/Markj/20120916_154506_edited-1.jpg ...

Looking good

Here's to warm winter

Certainly dose have a good coating of powder :D , but it lacks the branch pattern of other sinobambusas here- multiple different sized branches rather than the more usual 3 equal sized ones. Seems to like the climate here as well, very vigorous at the root which also sets it out against others here ...

Bit of mix all in all, the one shading it out is an aureosulcata.

But theirs also some RY to the left.

Anyone reckon this one has a bit of a ID crisis

Looks and behaves way different to other sinobambusa's here, much more in keeping with stuff from pleioblastus...

Nice colour though.

Juizhaigou #1, grown in full shade here- looks happy enough but slow growing.

Re: This summer was too hot for most Fargesias


Not here....!

Just endured the wettest summer for 100 years.


Scabrida now @14 foot tall