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From: bamboo@tiac.net
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Bamboo
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:48:15 -0400, Sum Lin <sumlin@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Check out the American Bamboo Society homepage and they have all sorts
> of bamboo links with full description of each kind, zone requirements,
> water, sun, alkalinity, clumping/running characteristics etc etc etc.
> If only they can tell me how to get my budda bellies to swell.
> Neri
Grow it in Florida in full sun and water it well - you will get bellies.
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From: Rick Cook <rcook@BIX.com>
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Bamboo
King Pineapple wrote:
>We have it in New Hampshire which has -30 degree winters and it's out of
>control. Can it be sold to our local Chinese restaurants?
Maybe. Ask them.
Just about any variety of bamboo shoots are edible, but some need to be blanched before eating and some are definitely tastier than others.
I have about eight varieties growing in my back yard and a friend brought her pit bull puppies over to play. They ignored all of them but the variety called 'Sweet shoot' (P. dulcis). They grazed all the new shoots to the ground on that one.
I understand I'm not the only one to have a problem with pit bulls and bamboo shoots.
--RC
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From: bichenos@aol.com (Bichenos)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Black Bamboo
>I recently saw something about Black Bamboo in a magazine or somewhere.
>Does anyone know what its botanical name is, where it's available and
>whether it's a "problem plant" that will take over my yard?
Try Burts' Bamboo or New England Bamboo. It's something "nigra" but it is listed by it's common name at their sites. I believe it is invasive rather than clumping. Kara
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From: "Sandra O'Brien" <sobrien@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Black Bamboo
It's available from white flower farm It says it is slow spreading so I guess that means clumping not rhizome. 1-800-503-9624 or www.whiteflowerfarm.com $32.95 So, what did you read about Black Bamboo. I'm thinking of putting it on the side of our hill, maybe it will help hold up the soil (and my driveway)
James wrote in message <6imt9t$74q$1@clarknet.clark.net>...
>I recently saw something about Black Bamboo in a magazine or somewhere.
>Does anyone know what its botanical name is, where it's available and
>whether it's a "problem plant" that will take over my yard?
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From: Carol Wallace <gardenwriter@columnist.com> Reply-To: gardenwriter@columnist.com
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Black Bamboo
I do grow Phyllostachys nigra, although my experience may not be typical since it's allegeldy only hardy to zone 7 and I'm in zone 5b. It is most definitely a runner, and yes, the cames do turn black after the second year. Here it often is killedback to the roots in cold winters, but it keeps coming back -- but after 5 years it hasn't been a problem to control. When I do see it getting a bit out of bounds I just snap off the emerging shoots in unwanted places.
Mine hasn't exceeded 7' tall yet, undoubtedly because if the climate. There is one version of P. nigra that is classified as a timber bamboo and gets HUGE! Carol
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From: "Boink" <NOSPAMkaminski@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Black Bamboo
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Here in Portland, Oregon, had black bamboo in our garden for years. It will spread like crazy... BUT it can easily be contained in special planters. We cut the bottoms off of 2 plastic garbage cans and put them into the ground such that only about 2 inches stuck out. We filled them with soil and planted the black bamboo... it contained them beautifully (i.e., the cans being nearly 30" tall prevented them from growing down that far).
-- MARK
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From: sgordan@hevanet.com (Susan Gordanier)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Black Bamboo Reply-To: sgordan@hevanet.com
In <01bd7975$24b7c600$f5a5cacc@default>, "Boink" <NOSPAMkaminski@teleport.com> writes:
>Here in Portland, Oregon, had black bamboo in our garden for years. It will
>spread like crazy... BUT it can easily be contained in special planters. We
>cut the bottoms off of 2 plastic garbage cans and put them into the ground
>such that only about 2 inches stuck out. We filled them with soil and
>planted the black bamboo... it contained them beautifully (i.e., the cans
>being nearly 30" tall prevented them from growing down that far).
I'm also in the Portland area. We set our original clump of p. nigra in a prepared area @5 x 4 feet. We dug down 2.5 feet, excavated, and edged the circumference with that fiberglass material that's typically used for patio roofs. Filled the hole with dirt and planted the bamboo within. The edging stuck out about 2 inches above soil surface.
This served VERY well for about 8 years. The bamboo thrived, with canes easily 12 feet tall. Just lovely. But... as the years passed, a couple of things went wrong. Bamboo is self-mulching. The level built up as the leaf pile thickened, and runners began escaping over the rim. Also, the fiberglass developed cracks, and the wiley shoots found every last one. I thought I had things under control, snapping off stray shoots, etc.
Then I hatched a new plan. Time to divide the clumps; we had many friends who wanted pieces anyway. We dug up the whole thing, scrounged a couple of abandoned cast iron bathtubs and sank those into the ground, planting bamboo clumbs within. The tubs are angled so that water drains toward the original outlet. I now have tubs within our borders, one with golden bamboo.
One point of interest here... When we were digging out the original planting, I found a couple of escaped runners which had made it 12 feet [!!!] away from the bed and had not yet sent up a detectable shoot. FREEDOM. Like The Brain, that shoot was certain it had the secret to taking over the world.
Susan
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From: totototo+rg@mail.pacificcoast.net (Rodger Whitlock)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Black Bamboo
Be aware that the "running" vs "clumping" classification is a botanical one based on details of the rhizome structure. not the plant's actual behavior. I can't tell you how it does in a hot climate, but black bamboo is a very well behaved clump=former in a temperate climate.
---- Rodger Whitlock "just enough knowledge to be dangerous"
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