Hi Lucien, is your B&Q bamboo tall, green culmed and compressed nodes at the bottom? If so it's a Phyllostachys aurea. If not it's a Fargesia murielae (either Bimbo, Simba, Jumbo, Super Jumbo)as these are the bamboos B&Q normally ...

How deep do bamboo rhizomes get ?

... you can do it the easy way...stick a spade on the periphery of your bamboo :lol: PW's P. iridescence is majestic isn't it? One of my favourites especially with it's ...

Actually I don't have that one as I've resigned to just leave that bamboo to collectors with proper space. Well not yet anyway

We might sort out an Arundo donax though, ours on the ground shot up to 9' in it's first season.

i might just have to give one a go when they appear in the shop, especially as i missed out on burgundy stem and the bamboo cause i was too skint to buy anything when they were available :roll:GAY-GONG-EN-SIS that is

Hi AliK! Glad you mentioned bamboo, for a moment I thought I'm the only one who liked them :lol: I'm sure alot do too. As with others I'm not exclusive and into all sorts of exotics that I find attractive and I'm guilty of impulse buying ...

How do you pronounce Fargesia (as in the bamboo), soft or hard 'g'?

... up to cover a selection of arids, and young palms. We have also now got a garden full of tents, but have built small tent like structures using bamboo and clear plastic over lots of young palms as rain and frost shelters. Although to allow air in the sides have been left open. Only a few things ...

... a limited amount of his stock last weekend and it had one or two palmaholics drooling, so I guess A) they must be good and B) you're insane, buy a bamboo!

Not quite electric blue but not bad for a bamboo!! I don't think its my favourite colour.............but then I'm colourblind!

... next plans they have sent the following email out to people on the email list, which gives hope of what might be the next move. Some interesting bamboos - although i best try and keep Mark away from this as no doubt some of them will soon turn up in our garden :lol: :lol: :lol: Gaz Long ago, ...

I only bought a couple of things for myself ! Those bamboo's were headed for the zoo, elephant feed. I'll take a piccy tonight of my purchases. Gaz/Mark Pheonix is Steve Jacobs place south of Evesham where the UKO meet organised by Kev Spence was last ...

... my garden, well I have a 4foot Trachycarpus growing in the corner. Buying that, started me off on a spending spree that even now has not stopped. Bamboo, fig tree, and a fatsia In my green house I have a few (Ilost count) simbidiums, Three small phoenix date palms, 1 ensete murelii, 4 basjoo, ...

I love the look of the Vivax Huanvenzhu. It's a lovely bamboo and produces thick culms relatively quickly. However it also reverts quite often to Vivax 'Aureocaulis' (yellow with green stripes, as opposed to the green with yellow stripes) and even mature-ish ...

... lovers, here's the link - http://www.pbase.com/cork3000 We are open to most 'styles' of exotic planting but it all stemmed from an interest in bamboo, which we seem to have rather a lot of considering the very small scale of our garden! We have also started a wide collection of arid plants ...