Rupert wrote:
I do vaguely remember that summer--seems decades ago .
Message understood. I guess you gave them the absolute best growing
conditions by providing a cool moist root run.
Do you know the names of those two varieties? Phyllostachys aurea
something? and Phlyllostachys nigra perhaps.

Yep the basic P.aurea & P.nigra.

I made them very happy - or rather, they died happy!

pk