bamboo bamboo

maanmo

in the spring of 2007, i noticed the bamboos growing in east vancouver

bamboos are interesting, they grow from underground rhyzomes

each year new shoots come up,  in a few months they reach the full height for that shoot, it never grows taller or thinker in each shoot's 10 year
life span

a bamboo first planted in the ground  will have shoots that are short and
thin  then a few years later will reach its full size if the environment
condition is optimal

finally after one year or more of investigation, i dug out some bamboos and try to see it grow.

  after reading a couple of books on bamboos
i finally choose 2 bamboos and email order it from
www.bambooworld.ca

  fargesia robusta  $20

Phyllostachys edulis
Common Name: Moso
Also called: Phyllostachys heterocycla  pubescens  $30

shipping charge $20
gst +pst

you can read up on these 2 bamboos at
http://www.bamboogarden.com/

here is a pic of fargesia robusta on the bamboogarden web site

Photo copyright: Dain Sansome: 2005
Woody admires a Fargesia robusta at the Bamboo Garden.


the one fargesia robusta i bought is in a 4" pot
i shook out the soil in water, untangles the roots, and hose away
the remaining dirt, then i cut the rhyzome into 3 pieces and repotted them

i put these pots in plastic bags 20 hours a day . to prevent them from dying on me


( i have the experience of digging out a piece  of rhyzome from  another garden, put it in the soil at my home, after many weeks a shoot came out
but it hides in the leaves of a near by flower.
when i dug out the rhyzome accidentally, i quickly put it back into a pot
but one day later the whole shoot brown out. )