Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:

"Adebisi" wrote in message
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I have just bought some Moso Bamboo seeds from eBay and wondered if anyone
else here has ever grown this type of bamboo in the UK and if so any tips?

TIA
Simon

No I have not grown or seen this one before. Do the culms really get to that
size here in the UK?
The biggest culms I have seen in the UK are on PHYLLOSTACHYS 'SHANGHAI a
mere 3" in diameter.



Its Phyllostachys Pubescens (syn. P edulis)

I got some a couple of years back via the Bamboo Society Seed Distribution.
They're currently about 30 to 50cm tall here in Sheffield. Two were
replanted in a garden in the Lake District where they seem to have been
eaten by rabbits (syn. P. edulis).
Paul Whittaker's "taming the dragon"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...2685X?v=glance
is somewhat dismissive. He reckons it will grow well down in the
south west, but that its so slow to attain maturity that you're better
off growing other species further north.

j