What species of Bamboo do you have?

Sal,
Fargesia is actually a better behaved genus.
You sure it's one?

 

Not really into bamboo, but some years ago I found some seed of Phyllostachys edulis, it germinated fairly well.
About ten years on all I have is a couple of small clumps about four ft tall, it never does much.
I think it would like lots of summer rain, with high humidity.

 

Not sure at all , it was given to me as a bamboo , it`s not even full hardy as all the leaves are dye down in winter and reshoot in spring ......reached 7 feet in 3 years from a small cutting , untill my dear mother in law , cutted all down as she though that it was dead .
Even the roots are strange as got the normal wooden bamboo roots and millions of capillar roots .
look like fargesia murielae

 

Two Phyllo Nigra, that all, no room for any more.

 

Sal,
Doesn't sound like Fargesia rufa to me. This species should be hardy down to -15*c at least.

 

actually a nice ID would be nice.




and this is the small bamboo that I`ve managed to save from last year , not really hardy.

 

Sal,

Hmm, that does look like a Fargesia.
Maybe not F rufa though. I will take a phot of mine and post it when I have a chance.

It should be really hardy.

 

Sal,

Just looking at your photos again.
Do you know where your plant came from??

Some of the Borindas are closely related to Fargesia and the Borindas aren't as hardy.

 

An old Libanese lady gave to me , don`t thing is coming from any UK garden center as she travel a lot , would not be surprised that is not hardy in UK and manage just about to survive , what I know is one of the fastes bamboo I`ve got , the cane are really thin and her specimen was around 2.5 mt in pot .....
She also gave me a jasmine for making Tea , but only survived 3 years .

 

Sal,

I think it is something interesting.

 

I have no idea what species of bamboo is thriving in my copse; but, in the past couple of days it has "bloomed" the most beautiful seed heads (?) of deep purple! It's an invasive little terror; sprouts up ad lib.

Now, if I could just harness the good bits and put it in a sunken pot ... I think it would make a fine display!

 

Flowering can often mean the death of a clump. Depends if the plants have the resources to carry on, or more often not.
So be sure to save some seeds, and get them going again.

 

Growers in India and China etc use hormones to make the Bamboo flower and they get the seeds from that.