Noooooo! There's been a few flowering in recent years. Such a shame.

... give structure and height within a few years so this is where I start. Himalayan forest (semi shaded and moist, near large trees): blue columned bamboo (Borinda), Pteris wallachiana, pleione, schefflera (any hardy species), arisaemas (mine mostly died due to wet, not cold winters. Japan/China ...

... into it though because it is dense clay. Lost one due to ring barking by a muntjac; lesson learned! For quick tropical look for me a blue columned bamboo worked well. I tried a few and Borinda (Fargesia) KR5287 does best - see pictures (this one is from Kimmei bamboo). It matured fairly quickly ...

I have the usual core plants of bamboo, tetrapanex, fatsias japonica and spidersweb, ferns and of course a few trachycarpus. My partner Rebekah has Lillie's interspersed throughout the garden to add a flowery feminine touch. We usually grow ...

passiflora for the fence

a red banana

bamboo & musa basjoo

tertrapanax of course

cordyline does not grow here unfortunately

... like except Gunnii, unless you want to commit suicide! They tend to drop branches if you so much as look at them. Tetrapanax papyriferus, a must. Bamboo, don't buy a runner. Fatsia, I have 3 varietes. Cordyline, any you can grow. Dicksonia Antarctica, a must. Plants I would not be with out. Acacia ...

... hardly tell the difference. In Cornwall I don't protect over winter: in a bad winter frost cuts them to the ground. Fargesia sp. A well behaved bamboo genus that haven't run here. I think mine is 'Red Panda'. Bamboo aficionados will list better ones! I have other bamboo, but I'm not as fond ...

My mom has castallonis bamboo in the garden. Took us much time to make them bloom.

tatter wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2019 8:52 pm Whispering grass ?

The old ones are always the best! Whatever happened to Windsor Davies ( lovely boy) and Don Estelle?

Whispering grass ?

Tatter Bamboos are capable of flowering at the same time all over the World! Clever or what.

I wonder how they communicate, Facebook, twitter, WhatsApp, or some other form of skulduggery.

Mine appears to be recovering having flowered last year.

Hi, found this Forum when Googling whether Phormium flowers. First time I've seen it, thought it was from the Bamboo close to it. Can't wait for them to open, pretty excited.

... Sabal Yapa and Cordyline https://i.postimg.cc/JttvSG3Q/IMG-20190527-145801.jpg Jasmine, Blueberry bush, Bamboo Palm, Monstera deliciosa, Parlour Palm, hosta, Acer and a few weeds Please excuse the quality of the images they had to be resized to be uploaded. ...

My Castallonis bamboo is flowering and i know of two others flowering now also .Are there any more.Is it strange to have three all flowering at the same time