Unexpectedly, my Phyllostachys aureosulcata began to shoot. I was mowing my
backyard (it was very early for first mowing as well), not expecting there
will be bamboo shoots, and the other day I noticed that I cut few emerging
clums while mowing.
Last year this bamboo started to shoot around 1st of May. Month and a half
later! But of course, we litteraly had no winter in continental parts of
Croatia this year. That's why it started so early.

Last year it was so:

Fargesia mid April
Phylostachys aureosulcata late April
vivax mid May
nigra late May
Pleioblastus May
Pseudosasa June

When bamboos shoot in your gardens, people?

Tihomir