Buying and Planting Bamboo
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Growing Bamboo in the UK
Black Bamboo Nigra
Bamboo Golden Crookstem
Fargesia Jiuzhaigou
Bamboo Inversa
Himalayan Blue
The Noble Bamboo
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Bamboo Nuda
Robusta Red Sheath
Bamboo Four
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Bamboo Vivax Inversa
Bamboo Phyllostachys Vivax " huangwenzhu". This is a fairly recent introduction and reported to be wonderfully reliable. Green canes with a thick yellow stripe or stripes. Occasionally if you are lucky you will get a reversion on some of the culms. When this happens these culms revert back to the golden Aureocaulis and they will produce both coloured canes side by side. Two for the price of one, that can’t be bad. Tidy with upright habit and sparse in leaf showing the canes of to good effect. It can tolerate some shade.
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Bamboo Kwangyensis
Bamboo Phyllostachys Humilis will reach only 5 meters or 16 feet maximum and is one of the shortest Phyllostachys. Its growth habit is broad and stocky .This bamboo probably has its origins in Szechwan, China but is now also grown extensively in Japan. Culms emerge black or purple aging to gorgeous amber yellow. Usual a well behaved bamboo. It is very dense bamboo producing masses of thin culms and is ideal for a clipped hedge or sound screen, as it will also suffer more pruning than other Phyllostachys.
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Bamboo Ambilis
Bamboo Pseudosassa ambilis. ‘The Tea Stick Bamboo’ or aka “Tonkin Cane." An upright leafy bamboo, large and handsome. Slower growing than japonica. Just hardy in UK but prefers a warm sheltered spot. It is best suited to medium or large gardens where it can run as a screen or hedge. The culms are upright aging to a golden yellow. They are grown extensively in warmer parts of China for cane production and this is the cane prized for split cane fishing rods.
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Bamboosa Metake
Bamboo Pseudosasa japonica. Bambusa metake. Arrow Bamboo. In the distant past the culms of Metake were used as arrow shafts. A medium-size bamboo with narrow culms and large deep chartreuse green leaves up to 50mm in width by a 30 cm long on thin, strong, straight canes. In full sun it makes an attractive tall dense screen or a superb architectural feature. Average height of 5 meters Best in light shade, but adaptable. It grows better in deep shade than any of the Phyllostachys species but performs best in light or dapple shade. A well behaved bamboo.
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Bamboo Violascens
Bamboo . Semiarundinaria fastuosa + Fastuosa viridis. The Noble bamboos, and justly called so. This native of the islands and lowlands of Japan and also found to some extent in China Korea and Taiwan. Producing fine tall vertical clumps, extremely useful where space is limited. This is an architectural bamboo tall and elegant stately well deserving its title of The Noble Bamboo. The culms emerge green covered with cream coloured sheaths but age to a wonderful red purple in the sun topped with long lush narrow leaves. It is an excellent bamboo for coastal areas being very tolerant of salt laden air as well as pollution.
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Bamboo Vivax
Semiarundinaria yashadake Kimmei. Emperor Kimmei (Kinmei Tenn¨) 509-571 was the 29th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession, and the first to whom contemporary historiography assigns clear dates. Bearing the emperors name this bamboo has green grooved canes topped with a mop of large Brunswick green leaves. However when grown in the full sun the canes acquire an attractive washed burgundy blush. A vigorous and very reliable grower 2 meters wide by 3 meters high max. Fantastic for a dense screen
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