On 24 May 2004 06:59:40 -0700, (Beecrofter) wrote:

Zone 5/6 if it was in a pot on the ground it might just be toast. We
did have a rough winter.
If it is in the ground most are shooting now.
Coastal CT, the yellowgrrove shoots are an inch or more thick and man
high in the most favorable spots.


As for Cereus, never argue with a fool-bystanders can't tell you
apart.


Earlier post, somebody mentioned microclimates, very important
issue,plants in a garden can flourish in one locaation and languish in
another not fifty feet apart.

Yellowgroove, P. aureosulcata, is a VERY HARDY DURABLE bamboo. folks
have planted it in PA where strip mining had all but ruined the earth,
and other attempts to establish a green cover had failed. I find every
season with bamboo is different, the times for shooting and so forth.
this has been so in Boston, and now in California.

don't argue with who? hardly!

hermine