Chris wrote:
Jason Pope wrote in message ...


It grows on rhizomes and they can travel for quite a difference before a
new bamboo shoot pops up!

It is a clumping variety though and as long as it's kept well watered
you shouldn't have any trouble,........it puts the rhizomes out to find
water!!


WHAT??? It is a vigorous runner that can be controlled by limiting
water, but the more you water it the more it will run.

Most plants with rhizomes have rapid growth of the rhizome to find water
if there's little around!
It's a plants basic biological response to having no water,............
if you water it it'll put up new culms but in my experience it won't go far!


The rhizomes
run to help spread the plant not look for water.

The reason it spreads is to facilitate water and nutrient
uptake,........ you think plants spread just to look nice?


There are varieties
of Phyllostachys that can run a distance without putting up a culm,
but Phyllostachys Aurea puts out fairly dense growth.

If you water it well,....... that's not the same thing as a plant
running for a distance before putting up a culm.



Clumping bamboo will spread only a few inches a year.

Depending on how you feed and water it!

Jason