On 12 Nov 2003 09:04:53 -0800, (sams) wrote:

Here in Z6 CT a screen of P.bissetti, P. decora , and P. aureosulcata
does well all winter. The leaves will winterburn if you have
prolonged dry cold winds.
Mixing a few species keeps you from losing the screen should one
flower.

How oftern they flower, every year, once in 2/3 years?
Where can I buy from in New England area?
Do I plant one rhyzome or a few?
Are they invasive type? Iam looking one with more stem/bamboo than
folliage for planting around my warer garden and not to invade other
area.

TIA

Sam


try The New England Bamboo Company, they are near Boston. Burt
Associates is another New Enland based company. i have their whole
address somewhere, if you cannot find them on the net, write to me and
i will go to the OTHER computer and send you their contact
information.
it is wise to use Bamboo grown in your own climate, we strongly
advocate that whenever it is possible.

with a few exceptions which are both tropical and noteworthy, the
flowering of bamboo is in cycles which may be huge. For example, in
the long history of its cultivation, Bambusa vulgaris vitata has never
flowered. whereas, Mexican Weeping Bamboo, a lovely one, flowered
itself to death and produced so much fertile seed, that its children,
perhaps 12 years old, are HUGE LANDSCAPE SPECIMENS today.

There is also a kind of temporary flowering which is induced by awful
stress. it goes away.

MOST of the bamboo which are hardy in your area are of the invasive
sort, but really, they are easily contained by means of sub soil
barriers.

hermine
http://www.endangeredspecies.com