With our Sugi Bamboo Planters, the bottom can be detached so that the bamboo can be pushed out from beneath which is a big advantage for ease of transplanting. Containers - We recommend using our Sugi Bamboo Planter because it offers good insulation from heat and cold, and ease of maintenance because of the trapezoidal shape and Bamboo Barrier lining. If metal stock tanks are used for bamboo, we recommend insulating the inside with Bamboo Barrier.
We suggest placing any container on brick footings to avoid the eventual blocking of the drainage holes or degradation of the container. Bamboo Barrier - Bamboo rhizomes can adhere to porous surfaces, such as wood or clay. Therefore, we recommend lining any container with Bamboo Barrier to help when removing your bamboo and increase the life of the planter.
Bamboo Barrier also provides additional insulation from heat and cold. We sell decorative Sugi Bamboo Planters See more info The bamboo inside the planters are Semiarundinaria fastuosa 'Viridis'. In the spring there is considerable yellowing of the leaves, followed by leaf drop.
Some species do this more than others Phyllostachys aurea , P. They should loose their leaves gradually as they are replaced by fresh new ones. In the spring on a healthy bamboo there should be a mixture of green leaves, yellow leaves and newly unfurling leaves.
When planting bamboo over 15 feet tall, it may need to be staked or guyed for the first year of growth or until well anchored by their root mass.
This will prevent strong wind from uprooting them, or damaging new shoots and culms. Tall bamboo plants are best guyed with a rope tied to the same point on the culms, anywhere from about one third to halfway up the culm. Use three or four guy lines depending upon how much wind you expect. We recommend four ropes, one on each point of the compass. Drive two foot stakes one and one half feet into the ground at least 6 feet from the bamboo. Wood and bamboo stakes work well. If supporting very large bamboo, metal stakes are recommended.
A useful method for supporting long, tall screens is to put a sturdy post at each end of the screen and run a strong line between the two posts. Each bamboo can be loosely tied off the main line. A fence can serve the same purpose for bamboo about 15 feet tall. Newly planted bamboos need frequent and liberal watering. Twice a week during mild weather, and three to four times per week during hot or windy weather. For plants over 5 gallon size more than 1 gallon is advised.
Once a bamboo has reached the desired size, it can survive with much less irrigation. But until then you must water and fertilize copiously to achieve optimum growth.
Lack of sufficient water especially during hot or windy weather is the leading cause of failure or poor growth of new bamboo plants. Watering newly planted bamboos every day, or for longer than a few minutes can cause excess leaf drop. Well-established bamboos are rather tolerant of flooding, but newly planted bamboos can suffer from too much as well as too little water.
Make sure the area drains well and doesn't tend to collect pools of ground water for long periods of time more than 24 hours.
Installing a simple drip system with a timing unit is a cost effective and efficient way to assure the watering needs are met, while minimizing the chance of overwatering.
Where possible, use overhead or sprinkler systems to irrigate a wider area and encourage more rhizome growth, if you want the bamboo to spread into a large grove. Bamboo, like other plants, requires some pruning to maintain its attractiveness.
Individual bamboo culms live about years, but a full grove producing many new canes each year can live for several decades. Once each year you should remove older, unattractive culms and cut off any dead or unattractive branches. You can prune most bamboo without fear of damaging it. Just trim so it looks attractive. Make cuts just above a node, so as not to leave a stub that will die back and look unsightly.
If you cut back the top, you may want to also shorten some of the side branches so the plant will look more balanced, not leaving long branches at the top. See this link for photos and descriptions of the thinning process for a bamboo grove:. Thinning Clumping Bamboo. Clumping Bamboo can be pruned to maintain upright growth, or thinned to maintain an airy appearance.
If the plant gets too wide, just clip some of the outer canes back to ground level. See this page for a photo illustrated guide to pruning clumping bamboo. Bamboo may be trimmed in topiary fashion. You may top the culms, remove some lower branches, and shorten some side branches and remove others.
Any culms or branches cut do not grow back longer but only grow more leaves. The photo on the right is a Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Aureocaulis', pruned to about 6 feet tall, highlighting the bright yellow canes and dark green foliage.
It is a very unusual design, but it works in this space. Click on photo for larger image. Bamboo may also be cut to form a hedge as one might do with boxwood or other traditional hedge plants if one wishes. This is best done after the new culms grow to full height in the spring or summer.
Most of the new growth on a bamboo plant happens at the same time of the year, usually late spring or early summer for temperate bamboos. There should need be only one major pruning, with only minor touch up at other times of the year. If you want to control the size or height of your bamboo, and retain the natural look of the bamboo, this can be done by removing new shoots that are significantly larger in diameter than the culms that are the desired height.
These shoots will be replaced by smaller diameter culms that will not grow so tall. This can be safely done with a plant that has been well established, not a newly planted bamboo.
These low-growing up to 5 feet spreading bamboo cover large areas and have wonderful foliage. If looking ragged, they can be clear-cut at the end of the winter before the onset of new growth using a mower or shears. This rejuvenates them and when the new growth emerges the plants will look much fresher, plus they will remain shorter and more dense.
They can be lightly trimmed after their shooting to retain their uniform short stature. In very cold climates zones 4 through 6 groundcover bamboo are often deciduous and may die back to ground level, but the plants still shoot freely in the following spring if well insulated with mulch through the winter. Lots of good information about growing bamboo! Bamboo Pests see link for information about bamboo pests.
If you have a moment, watch this stop motion video made by one of our customers. Taller Running Bamboo would not be appropriate for this location because the rhizomes can spread under the fence and concrete. Like all grasses, bamboo grows most lushly when supplied with ample moisture. And the lusher the growth, the more abundant, sweet, and tender the shoots. Irrigate your bamboo whenever the top inch of soil becomes dry, or more often if you wish.
As long as you plant it in fertile soil, there is no need to fertilize bamboo. Store-bought organic fertilizers are a safer bet. The latter, as the name implies, is what has given bamboo a bad reputation. The species classified as runners spread via long underground rhizomes, sending up new canes all over the place, quickly colonizing large areas.
The bad news is that the bamboo species with the best culinary qualities tend to be runners the Gigantochloa and Fargesia species mentioned above, both clumpers, are an exception. The good news is there are a variety of ways to prevent the spread of running bamboo. The easiest is simply grow it in pots or raised planters.
This should extend at least 18 inches below ground and 4 inches above ground. Underground barriers, which are expensive and laborious to install, are best suited to small plantings. If you intend to establish a large grove, surround it with a wide swath of grass or other vegetation that may be mowed regularly. Harvesting the shoots is another tactic for stemming the spread of bamboo into unwanted areas, as every shoot removed is a cane that is prevented from growing.
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According to Guinness World Records, some species of bamboo can grow up to 2. So if you sit long enough with a bamboo culm, it might just grow before your eyes! How does bamboo grow? As a colony plant, it uses its energy to expand its roots and grow more shoots in the spring. These shoots emerge out of the ground to grow taller and wider for around 60 days.
After 60 days, the canes stop growing altogether, and energy is directed back to the roots for the development of further canes. This is where it diverges from most other flora, which put their energy into continued growth of the original stem.
Once bamboo is established usually after 3 years , the new shoots that emerge each spring will continue to get bigger and bigger. Pretty cool, right? No, really! Cutting bamboo actually stimulates growth. How does this work?
Well, rather than directing energy towards regaining its lost height, a cut bamboo stalk will simply unfurl new leaves. These leaves, in turn, create and send energy down to the root system to encourage the growth of new shoots. The more that gets harvested, the faster it grows. That makes bamboo an incredible renewable resource that can be harvested and will regrow naturally without the need for manual reforestation. When properly managed and intensively harvested, bamboo can sequester up to 1.
That's HUGE! Dense bamboo roots form a water barrier, and are used by coastal villages to protect their crops from getting washed out by rising water tables.
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