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 Three
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Bamboo Nuda
Bamboo Phyllostachys nuda. This bamboo is extensively cultivated in China for its sweet shoots. A very tough and exposure tolerant bamboo, taking climate extremes in its stride. It can be a quick developing bamboo rapidly forming a mound of green foliage. New culms vary from blackish to wine red holding a dark colour with white felted nodal rings. Its dark leaves act as a fine backdrop for flowering shrubs or perennials. Currently unavailable until August 2007.
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Bamboo Humilis
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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Black Bamboo
Bamboo Phyllostachys Nigra, the famous black bamboo is unique. It is the only bamboo to produce truly black culms which contrast beautifully with the short bottle green leaves. This a slowish grower and although the height in its native China can reach as much as 14 meters, it rarely makes the 5 meter mark in temperate climate like the UK. However this really is a stunner of a bamboo and justly deserves all the praise it gets. The culms emerge pink/cinnamon then turning green and then ripen off over the next twelve months to a gorgeous shiny Japanned black. Looks wonderful in an oriental style garden or breathtaking as a specimen on its own.
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Bamboo Propoquinia
Phyllostachys propinqua Dark green glossy narrow leaves adorn the bottle green 50mm wide canes on a mature specimen. Originating from the eastern provinces of China it’s a tough cookie coping well with extremes of both ends of the temperature scale This bamboo is an early shooter and very reliable forming an open clump 75 cm.-150 cm. wide and an average height of 6 meters. It has a square jaw and is easily recommended for an exposed position.
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Bamboo Violascens
Bamboo Phyllostachys violascens. Grove forming bamboo Impressively robust . Purple and yellow striped marked variations a, little more than Tanakae. It has short thick culms and will tolerate partial shade.
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Bamboo Vivax
Phyllostachys vivax aureocaulis Paul Whittaker described this bamboo as the eighth wonder of the world one of the most ornamental and rewarding of hardy bamboo. Exactly so. Buttercup gold canes with random stripped bar-coding of green jade. A very vigorous bamboo well behaved but canes can reach 8 meters and with a respectable 10 cm girth. Cold hardy, unfussy, rarely if ever invasive, but not for a small garden.
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