Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #103, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Rita, your morning glories are lovely. I was yearning for a start of black bamboo a few years ago, too. Then I went and priced them - Ack! Even without shipping (I visited a grower near Palm Beach) the black, and some of the others with exotic colored stalks were $300 or so for a decent sized start!

It's sad that bamboo is SO VERY difficult to divide starts from. Even the guy with the backhoe had trouble busting up the root ball on my tall bamboo. I do have another clump of a smaller variety that only grows about 15 feet tall, with 3/4in. diameter stalks, but . . . can't get even my sharpest shovel in amongst the roots there either.

Up in Gainesville, at the botanical gardens on the UF campus they have a big bamboo display, and each year in the fall they do sell divisions. But >sighh< I have filled all the spaces now.

Here's my newest Canna 'Durban' with green and purple variegated foliage and the most outrageous orange flower. The photo doesn't do it justice.