Bamboo advice

phatplants · Post by **phatplants** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:22 pm

Will be planting out my three bamboos shortly, phy. Aurea, phy. Spectablis and phy. Aureosulcata aureocaulis. They are in pots at the moment, and was wondering whether they needed to be contained to prevent running. I remember somebody telling me that i could plant them in a large buried bucket/bin with the bottom cut out, and this would contain them? I'm sure this has been said before, but i would appreciate your advice.

GoggleboxUK · Post by **GoggleboxUK** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:32 pm

Not sure about the other 2 but Aurea will definitely run.

Containment methods vary but a large bin or similar with the base cut off has been recommended on here in the past.

I'll be planting out a couple of my Aurea this year but I think I'll use a root barrier like this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bamboo-root-b ... 6d71137d5d

It's expensive stuff but I'd rather be certain that it's not going to start shooting up all over the place.

rufc15lizzie · Post by **rufc15lizzie** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:40 pm

Hi

All phyllostachys bamboo will run eventually, as they are not clumping bamboo.

As a general rule bamboos which don't need barriers are fargesia, borinda, chusquea and thamnocalamus. Practically everything else will run.

Arlon Tishmarsh · Post by **Arlon Tishmarsh** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:43 pm

Mine are all being planted out this year. I only have 2 varieties, P. Nigra and Aurea but they're quite tall now and i have about 8 or so good sized clumps. Mine will be going in bottomless plastic bins

GoggleboxUK · Post by **GoggleboxUK** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:54 pm

Arlon, didn't you have a pic of a perfectly round Aurea that looked like it was root barriered?

phatplants · Post by **phatplants** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:57 pm

Thanks for all your advice

how deep should a bucket/bin be planted? Does the rim need to be above ground to prevent any jumping over?

Arlon Tishmarsh · Post by **Arlon Tishmarsh** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:59 pm

GoggleboxUK wrote:Arlon, didn't you have a pic of a perfectly round Aurea that looked like it was root barriered?

I've grown all mine on in pots. The 2 Aurea i have, i bought (or stole

) from B&Q last winter, £70 worth for a tenner. The nigra i had from Cathy (Bristol) and split it into smaller clumps which again have done well.

GoggleboxUK · Post by **GoggleboxUK** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:16 pm

A thought just occurred to me, I reckon this stuff would work just as well as that expensive root barrier stuff:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Plastic-Vinyl ... 43ad079054

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20-Plastic-Ca ... 2eb2e65f6e

or even this one doubled up:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CARPET-PROTEC ... 3cbc2d07b3

karl66 · Post by **karl66** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:38 pm

I have about 15 large bamboos of different variaties & as an experiment they are all planted differently, some straight into ground, some in massive pots with bottoms cut out, & some i've dug deep holes and lined the sides with synthetic roof slates but left bottom open, i've also got some large fargesia murrelli jumbo in 50 litre pots. I was acctually wondering whether bamboo generally suffer from root disturbance if took out the ground & location moved. karl.

GoggleboxUK · Post by **GoggleboxUK** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:45 pm

I wouldn't have thought so Karl, bambbos can be divided by slicing through the roots with no ill effect.

karl66 · Post by **karl66** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:52 pm

Ok goggle, i might be sliceing up some japanese "kimmie" pink bamboo as i can see it escalating where it is.

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