inherited a garden with some bamboo I cut it down and then dug up this big root ball, didn’t see other shoots but wondering how long I’ve managed to suppress this beast please?
My bamboo isn’t behaving the way I had hoped it would. I thought bamboo was fast growing and shoot up high but it looks quite scraggly. At this point I kinda regret not just planting a tree.
I water it, put homemade compost on it, and it is in a nice sheltered position from the wind. It gets partial sun. Zone 9a
I thought possibly it’s a edible species of Phyllostachys not sure let me know if a taste test is safe with these kinds of bamboo me and my family are very curious🧑🍳 would it simply be bitter and fibrous or is it a little dangerous
I am currently cutting down a quarter acre of bamboo. I would like to make wind chimes. I have weathered pieces and tons of new pieces. I am not sure if I should take the dead pieces and cut them and try to make wind chimes, or cut an edge the new pieces. I am asking what tool I can use to make the cuts for the wind chimes that’s the cheapest. I can’t post a picture on my phone won’t let me so I am putting it in the comments. I am located in wall New Jersey if anyone wants to come and get some free bamboo.
I have a small plant in my new garden that I think is bamboo but would like to understand whether this is a non-clump forming kind of bamboo and if so what I would need to do to ensure it doesn’t spread into the roots in the ground and cause issues. Please could someone advise? I’m in the UK for context, south east clay soil.
Just recently planted some black aspen bamboo and it’s looking a little rough. I’m in zone 7 and the soil seems pretty moist.
Hey folks! I have a lot of experience with succulents and threes, but recently I’ve visited gardening center which had few bamboos, some of them was already dried and dead but this one looked like had some chances, since I’ve seen some green spots on it and it’s tried to push out some new leaves.
I need your opinion of how to save it, because I never worked with bamboo. Roots and part of the trunk was rotten, so I’ve cut most of it and dead moist parts of the trunk until I’ve seen green parts and sealed it. I don’t know which soil it needs so for now I just put it to the mix of akadama, pumice, little compost and perlite.
Any criticism/suggestions are welcome.
Bonus pics just random plants from my garden about to be ready for pruning:)
We told her she should sell it instead of paying to have it cut down, how much should she charge and how (by the shoot, by the foot) I told her I would post it on FB marketplace got her. She is in Florida. I tried to research how much to charge and best I could find was “depends on what type of bamboo” and I have no idea what kind this is. Any help/ advice is appreciated. TIA
Ps. The tree is at least 15 plus years old, that’s how long she has lived in the house and it was a little baby tree when she moved in
Edit: holy poo some of yall are so freakin rude and weird she feels like the tree is an eyesore and she wants different one, one that is dense at the top so she can have shade hitting the back porch. You thinking her backyard it’s ugly has nothing to do with the question I asked so thanks to those who gave actual answer.
Hi, so last week we had a major heatwave in France that was very harsh on the biodiversity. It was so uncommon that 80 people drowned across the country trying to stay cool.
I'm based in Paris. My balcony faces the East so I get the morning sun. In Paris, the max temperature was 39°C on average each day.
Now two of my bamboos (fargesia angustissima) were starting to look very weird last weekend (faded green then greyish green). This applied to the majority of leaves, not all of them.
To note, at the beginning of the week, I was watering them copiously on evenings, then, as the week went by and the heat got worse, a bit in the morning and a lot on evenings
Thing is, turns out the pot, which is made of larch wood (Mélèze) is rotting at the bottom, I noticed this last weekend....
Hence my open question, what do you think caused these poor plants to look like this :'(
Was it the roots that are bathing in too much water hence the rotting bottom?
Too much sun?
Not enough water in a heatwave?
Something else?
Thanks for reading.
Bambou phyllostachys vivax huangwenzhu.
Any sudjestions or any sort of info on the specifics of the bamboo. It’s a somewhat new house for us. I am aware it will die after.
I have bamboo in a metal planter in the backyard. Recently, new leaves seem to form dry clumps at the ends. Do the pictures suggest I need to water them more (currently watered every other day) or add fertilizer (currently not using any)?
It’s coming under the fence from my neighbor’s yard. In the Seattle region.
Interested in a house that has this bamboo in the garden. I think it is the clumping variety fargesia, but I am not sure. If it is the running kind phyllostachys then I will stay clear! Consulting Reddit before I get a professional opinion!
I'm sure this has been covered somewhere, but hard to find. We have a small grove of beautiful running bamboo that's at least 22 years old. The previous owner put it in with just a thin metal barrier. It busted out years ago, but I'd just dig up the rhizomes ("just" - actually a big job when there were a lot or they'd been stealthy af and I'd be contending with a twelve footer).
About four years ago, though, we redid our yard and now instead of a crappy lawn there are nice plants (jasmine, oak leaf hydrangeas, and a tree peony) a couple feet away. The escaping rhizomes (well there's not much left to escape from, actually) regularly get bound up in their roots even though I try to keep a close eye on things. It's torture to pull them out.
What I want to know is if it's possible to install a new - effective! - container around small mature grove. I've been a competent rhizome-slayer for two decades, but this is killing me.
Thanks!
Moved to this house decent sized backyard. We don't have any yard tool as we didn't have any yard prior to this so i'm looking for the best budget power tools that can help me get rid of a lot of bamboo and also take care of the yard weeds brush etc...
I would like to remove but not sure what kind of bamboo it is. A couple of weeks ago these tall new shoots have appeared which make me nervous about it spreading. Located in Essex. Happy to answer any questions!
