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Want to know who brought the bamboo to Sylvia, that I came home with, please. Mitch, was that you?
I'd like to know what kind it is, if you know.
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It was Mitch NOT ME .. LOL
If it was the same bamboo...I got some golden bamboo from Mitch
Main thang, is it a runner or a clumper?
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I think it's a runner. Wayne suggested I don't let the roots get near the ground...LOL
That would have been my first thought, just for safety sake.
I'm going to try mine in a 5g bucket w/no holes for them roots to get out!
Thanks, Randy!
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Sure...yes, mine is going into a pot too..
but why???? bamboo is such fun to try and get rid of ....hahahaha...NOT
come on Phylis, I'll plant it ..then call you when I have to move it
oh yeah I dare ya I double triple dog darn ya to plant it in the ground...hehehe...and if I am helping you remove it ya gonna come help me get rid of the roots I have here?????
see all this bare land..it is not bare it is all bamboo roots care to come help ????...I thought not .LOL
oooh look at all that space!
it looks really dry...sure..deal...
LOL>..I haven't hear the doubld triple dog dare in quite some time
Watch out!!!! Phylis really means it!
that was taken before the trees started getting leaves here is a newer one
and someday when I have the bamboo gone and have the back planted with flowers and plants I'll even let ya sit in my new bamboo park bench we just finished this morning ..ok well almost finished have to get the jute or something that can handle the weather and wrap the joints
oh wow...now I know who to call for bamboo benches...that's very good!
don't get too excited over it it is the first one and not sure if we have enough of what we cut down to do another one, but am going to use the left over pieces to hopefully make a small table to go with it for putting drinks on.
Since a friend gave us some rubber roofing I am thinking MAYBE making one spot out back for bamboo to grow but it will be contained...then I would have more to do things like this if I learn the proper techniques.
Oh no ..you misunderstand...I bring the bamboo..drop it off...come back and pick up a bench! :)
LOL...
oh well then that might be different will have to see if DH is up to another one and ya know once you cut the bamboo you need to knock out the nodes so as it dries it doesn't crack as much.
It was me - she had asked for that stuff a LONG time back... it is Golden Temple - very nice, tall slender and loves shade. You can see the effects of it at the Dallas Zoo.
is it a clumper or runner?
runner... but the place I dug it from swore it was a slow grower....
I quite like it, but I don't know anything about Bamboo. Everytime I plant some Wayne comes over and says..."oh no..! you need to dig that up!" so I do..I listen to him...he sells a bunch of it.
Not an expert here but with the almost a year I've been here now I agree with RJ's friend Wayne...unless you plan on mowing around it and don't mind it popping up who knows where OR if you contain it with super heavy duty plastic barrier or a cement barrier or put a pond around it do not plant it in the ground.
It may be pretty make nice privacy screens and great for helping stop erosion but to get rid of it or the roots will take forever.
Heck the guy at the Caldwell zoo here in Tyler said Tues. when I was there when he did a landscape business and was asked how to get rid of it his reply was Move.
Slow growing he may have meant the shoots growing into nice size bamboo.
just my feelings
I hear you - let me put it this way - two stalks - the big ones - I gave to Sylvia and the two new ones I gave to you. That is the whole plant and it is 4 years in the same spot here. But it gets no extra water and is in the full Texas sun in hard Texas clay soil - not the place it really wanted to live in!
i have some black bamboo in a pot for 2 yrs. it has grown so slowly you could hardly say it's "spreading" but i am considering putting it into the ground. does anyone know about this type?
Here ya go Mama some info and a link to read more
Phyllostachy Nigra has black to a malted color with beautiful green leaves
Nigra Black is one of the 153 species of running bamboo we grow
In USDA Climate Zone 7 expect mature size canes to be over 30 feet in height.
In USDA Climate Zone 6 expect mature size canes to be 16 feet in height.
http://www.lewisbamboo.com/pblack.html
o.k. the "running" part.......does this mean that it will spread like the kind you are trying to get rid of? i would like to put it in the ground as i think that's the only way it's going to get really big and pretty but what will it do?
It means it will send out runners 30 feet out in any path it wants to make.
not going in the ground then. i need to repot it and shoot i may just give it to my sister as she keeps wanting me to "plant the bamboo". maybe i'll do that...but at her house.
maybe some kinds only spread 30 feet but the ---- here has gone over 200 ft form the back where it was planted to clear around the house to the peach trees on the south side of the yard. LOL
Lol - evil Mamajack... they can be stunning if planted in the middle of a grass area you are going to mow often. No room for that anywhere I will ever live.
Yikes! 200 feet with nothing in between - yikes.
well no it went around the shed or maybe under it and under the landscape timbers that are the terrace in back of the house....but yep it is out by the peach trees next to the house too so ti will get wacked off with the weed eater every time we see it LOL
the only way i would plant this stuff in the ground is if i had hundreds of acres and it could go at the back somewhere. i met a couple in miss. a few years ago who had planted bamboo right after they married and moved into a new house. they were old but the bamboo had reached their house and run under their concrete driveway. it was beautiful. great 'ol big stalks. a forest of bamboo. but not at my house.
At my father-in-law's bamboo grew up into one of his storage buildings and through the roof. Totally ruined his building.
I thought black bamboo was a clumper...I have some in the front garden...but like she said..it is slow as molasses
rj.......how long have you had it in the ground? how big was it when you put it there? how big is it now? i thought it grew slowly too which is the only reason I THINK i traded for it but it's been too long ago to remember.
Hmmm...I've been at it about 8 years now.
When I moved in with the person who owned the house (Kevin), there was nothing in the back but a dog house, mud and a greenhouse.. Kevin and I built the deck, there were only stairs out the back bedroom door, and stairs to the newly installed hot tub. One day when I was bored, I went to the green house and saw these branches sitting by themselves on a shelf, but- they were growing leaves...I grabbed one and rushed into the house and said..look! these branches are just sitting on the shelf growing! I had never seen anything like it before...If you haven't guessed they were plumerias. I gathered up the plumerias and potted them and lined them up against the fence...That's how it started!
It was a real year or two before I really started into it- At the time I was a devoted gym buff (for quite a few years), and one day while I was on the precor (kind of stair master thing) I heard; and worse, felt a big cracking sound. I got off the machine and thought I must have pulled a muscle..several months and Dr.'s later I discovered my hip joints were dying-- latin names are not only labels for plants!...avascular necrosis-- "Death of Bone". Talk about a wake up call and life style change! These things though are more of a log accross the road for me to figure out how to get around, not a brick wall by any means.I had the worst hip replaced..and was a captive audience at home...so I really withdrew from the world and started gardening in earnest. There was a 6 months recovery on that first hip- had complications...but there I was hopping around the new garden putting new plants in, cursing the crutches...I really withdrew from everyone, friends, family and concentrated on healing- which the garden really provided. Because the first hip replacement was so traumatic, I went 2 more years until the left hip joint litteraly collapsed, and I couldn't walk on it anymore- so had that replaced 3 years ago. Fortuneatly the technology between the first and second hip had advanced so much the difference was night and day, and I recovered very rapidly from that surgery.
I grew up in Liberia W. Africa- (missionary brat) so I was use to having the Jungle as my back yard, and loved the look. Tthat is where my inspiration for the Jungle look and the very close quarters of plants..it's what I knew. I started with Brugs, which I grew from seeds, and that lead me to Daves Garden in 2002 I think it was...it was a ghost town then, and pretty much no information had been collected yet. I didn't return for 3 years after that.
I always called the back garden "the labratory" as I learned by trial and error for a long time- When I started consulting DG in 2005, the place had totally changed, filled up and was teaming with gardeners. It was leaps and bounds after that!
Three years ago, Kevin (the owner then) decided he wanted a change...he'd lived there for 20 years..and wanted something different and new - Which turned into my good fortune- I bought the house, and didn't have to move..I've lived in the house for 10 years now, which is the longest residence I've lived in my entire life! It is a patch of earth I've come to dearly love- the house, the whole package!
All these things sort of tie together on how I got started.....
Rj
you are a wonderful story teller. i would never had known you had had bilateral hip replacements. might have to talk to you more about that later as i think i'm working on those myself. and from the pictures i saw rj you made a beautiful place. i always wanted to go to africa. but it was for the animals when i was a kid. the animals would be great to see but i sure would like to have a look at the plants now too esp. the glad species.
what about the bamboo.......the black? how big is yours now?