14-04-2003, 09:32 PM
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Bamboo from B&Q - need info
(MG) schreef:
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 08:16:14 +0000 (UTC), "AWM"
wrote:
"Andrew Thomson" wrote in message
om...
I had a look around B&Q today. They are doing a bamboo that they
call
'Jumbo'. I've had a look around the internet and since I can't
find anyone
else with info on Bamboo 'Jumbo', I'm assuming that this is not
the
official name for this plant.
The official name is Fargesia 'Jumbo'.
Does anyone know anything about this plant? Does anyone have any
experience
with it and tips on how it grows and how to treat it?
Fargesia behaves. It doesn't spread like a flood, is strong,
frostresistant, doesn't collapse when rains and storm set in, has an
average pleasant for average gardens (I,m talking Fargesia muriale
now, the best known species of an evergrowing family): all plusses
imo. I read about 'Jumbo' as having nice green-yellowish stems.
In my situation I WANT MASSIVE GROWTH !!! But my bamboo has only 2
young stems and no sign of any rampant behaviour!!! How to stimulate
it??
MG
Just wait and see. Bamboos wait till about May to steer up new shoots.
You may support her by giving some of the same fertilizer you give to
your lawn (if you have a patch of grass, called a lawn 
Annet
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