Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Bringing in the beast, 0 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
I think some people kill the basjoo by over doing some things. The problem is using styrofoam might catch a lot more water than if you just used leaves or hard wood mulch. Here is how I do mine. I get black bags of leaves and make a circle around the plant and sometime go up about 2 or 3 bags or so. Then fill in the whole circle with leaves as high as I can go covering up as much as the trunks as possible. If your plant is fairly large you still may have some life to it under the ground tubers could still be fine.