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Bamboo
Apr 8, 2007 10:48:15 GMT
Post by sifreynir on Apr 8, 2007 10:48:15 GMT
well...its a sort of grass Anyway. My mum bought us a bamboo plant last year when she and my dad helped up shape the garden quite a bit. She also bought a load of other plants. The idea was to use it to screen the back end of the garage. However its not doing so well. Its not dead, but then it isn't thriving either. THere are still green leaves on it, but its looking very worse for wear. I have looked about a bit online and you can grow it this far north, so it isn't so much the climate. Am thinking perhaps it isn't getting enough sun where it is just now... Anyone else got experience with this stuff?
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Bamboo
Apr 8, 2007 12:46:31 GMT
Post by Starchild on Apr 8, 2007 12:46:31 GMT
Water your bamboo well until the plant is established and feed every other year in late spring (i.e. after the first shoots have emerged and reached full height), preferably with a mulch of well-rotted manure or a multi-nutrient feed. With Phyllostachys and Semiarundinaria bamboos, which have more open groves with strong outstanding culms, every two to three years remove the smaller, weaker canes. This leaves the more upright stronger culms to show off their best and allows more light into the centre of the grove. With Fargesia and other clump forming bamboos this is usually not necessary, although the new Fargesia utilis with its strong sturdy culms may need a little attention. Some dwarf bamboos may benefit from cutting back to the ground in mid-spring as the new growth appears to help promote leaf growth and vigorous shooting. www.junglegiants.co.uk/plantCare/pcOverview.html
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Bamboo
Apr 8, 2007 12:53:51 GMT
Post by Starchild on Apr 8, 2007 12:53:51 GMT
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Bamboo
Apr 8, 2007 20:39:45 GMT
Post by stormy on Apr 8, 2007 20:39:45 GMT
id cut it down right down, but then thats me, and then watering it a lot.
but then i am very savage when it comes to plants.
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Bamboo
Apr 8, 2007 21:01:14 GMT
Post by sifreynir on Apr 8, 2007 21:01:14 GMT
ooo yeah sabotage. I find cutting back works a treat...they grow back just to piss me off!
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Bamboo
Apr 11, 2007 2:31:07 GMT
Post by stormy on Apr 11, 2007 2:31:07 GMT
well then dig it up lol
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