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Bamboo looking dead
My Black Bamboo in a pot is looking decidedly like an Ex Bamboo after
this winter. Shall I leave it and will it shoot from below or are they not hardy enough to stand that sort of winter? |
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Bamboo looking dead
On 08/03/2011 15:33, Bookworm wrote:
My Black Bamboo in a pot is looking decidedly like an Ex Bamboo after this winter. Shall I leave it and will it shoot from below or are they not hardy enough to stand that sort of winter? Leave it, but make sure it is well watered. If it dries out (frozen soil + cold winds) that could explain what has happened. It might still shoot. -- Jeff |
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Bamboo looking dead
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:15:04 +0000, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 08/03/2011 15:33, Bookworm wrote: My Black Bamboo in a pot is looking decidedly like an Ex Bamboo after this winter. Shall I leave it and will it shoot from below or are they not hardy enough to stand that sort of winter? Leave it, but make sure it is well watered. If it dries out (frozen soil + cold winds) that could explain what has happened. It might still shoot. But will it leave? :-) -- Phil Cook |
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Bamboo looking dead
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:33:01 -0800 (PST), Bookworm
wrote: My Black Bamboo in a pot is looking decidedly like an Ex Bamboo after this winter. Shall I leave it and will it shoot from below or are they not hardy enough to stand that sort of winter? Did it flower last year? If so it may well be dead. That's what they do. That's what happened to mine, in the ground, a few years ago. Pam in Bristol |
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The reality is that black bamboo isn't a very a suitable subject for pot cultivation. You can keep it alive, but it's a lot of work. And keeping it moist but not waterlogged is difficult in icy weather. Put it in the ground and you can almost ignore it - it wouldn't mind a bit of water in a very dry spell though. |
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Yours would have been Fargesia nitida, which some unscrupulous dealers sold as "black bamboo". True black bamboo, Phyllostachys nigra, has not flowered recently, and is not flowering - (though you can get a bit of sporadic flowering on most kinds of bamboo if stressed, but that shouldn't kill the whole clump.)
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