Hi, I have been growing Moso Bamboo from seed for just over a year and have a probably 12" high group of shoots. How long will it be until I can plant the bamboo and rhizomes and have shoots with a larger diameter? This probably isn't the best way to word it...

... about a 20ft run with phylostachys castilonis inversa, its a lovely bamboo & has settled well & greening up. One of the last big trachys to go in will be ...

My mother gave me a plant dont no nothing about bamboo will this need a barrier and how hardy and how fast do they grow .Some of the green and yellow forms have gone awol near me .Some help please ?

Any shoots yet- it's a bit chilly I know but we must be close.
And does anyone feed and what with-I've heard it's best to feed just before shooting-will that make any difference?
Neil

... to leaf. it is a young plant and the green grooves are just developing so maybe if it keeps its variegation it would turn in to a really striking bamboo. I have read on google that variegation sometimes pops up in bamboos quite unexpectedly but if I could stabilise the variegation you might find ...

Are many others growing this lovely little shrub?, i bought a 10 litre on last year & it really lights the garden up with it's beautiful colour's, i popped into B&Q this afternoon for some soil & they had some almost 3 times this size for £24.99p, thats a great price for them!!, as dave ...

Bar my Fergesia Robusta Campbell hedge which has quite a decent banana leaf mulch around the bases, pretty much all my other bamboos, pot grown and in the ground were bone dry, no rain for weeks and the leaves has all thinned (desiccated?) like a drought. After a water they had plumped up by sunset....

I got this for free in a mix up on ebay so I am very happy with it. suppose to do well in our cold winters but I have heard it is a really nasty bamboo and you will never be rid of it once its get established in the ground...oh well a little bamboo never hurt anyone...Sasa Veitchii http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n370/pushak513/vitenchi.jpg

Ive got a few of these in 18ltr pots outside against a South west facing wall with only a mulch of tree leaves across the pots surface for protection. Will they need more protection than this ? I was hoping they would be ok until -12c ish,what do you think,cheers.

I was watching a video about the bamboo industry comming along in India and it looked like they were propagating from cut culms. they would cut a culm into 7 or 8 parts lay it sideways in the ground. cover it and wait for it to pop up. after ...

Can anyone Id this bamboo please.

As you can see from the picture it's an enormous clump.

I cleverly waited until some unwilling volunteers passed by so you could get an idea of size.

It's probably the healthiest looking bamboo I have ever seen and it was taken mid december 2012

... got bog std wooden fences all round, painted that terrible bright red, half faded in places. icon_aaargh Had idea of planting a thinnish line of bamboo all the way round the garden so that the canes hide the fence from view. Question, how to stop the bamboo escaping and how wide a channel should ...

... pics. feel free to guess the type I will know for sure in a few hours what each one is. http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n370/pushak513/stripebamboo.jpg this one is suppose to be very yellow in spring with green marking on the leaves dosent get very tall and a runner http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n370/pushak513/varigatedbamboo.jpg ...

I've recently taken on a new garden client and her garden and the previous owner planted this bamboo in the flowerbed that she wants to eradicate! However, it has spread its runners underground and is now growing through the middle of this Privet hedge and you can see ...

I got some half price Fargesia Rufa from B&Q today, would this time of year be a good time to plant them out?