echinosum Wrote:
> Travis is trying to give you more than you need.
>
> I can tell from your URL and your garden that you are in England.
> Almost certainly your donor didn't buy them from
> "really-obscure-bamboos-R-us", (otherwise they would tell you precisely
> what you have) and almost certainly didn't buy a bamboo that would die
> in an English garden. There are only about 10 genuses of bamboo
> commonly sold in Britain, indeed unless you go to a specialist there
> are barely 10 species commonly sold. So even if we don't get the
> precise species and variety, we will probably identify it well enough
> for your needs. But we do need a close-up of the culms to do that. In
> fact even without a close-up, I would punt a guess that at least one of
> your bamboos is Pseudosasa japonica, the most commonly grown bamboo in
> Britain.
>
> I can tell you one thing straightaway, you almost certainly have
> running bamboo. Bamboos come into two basic kinds - clumpers and
> runners. There are only two genuses of true clumping bamboos commonly
> grown in Britain, Fargesia and Thamnocalamus, (and "commonly" is
> stretching it for the second named) and even from a distance it seems
> unlikely that yours are one of those. So you have runners. Admittedly
> most runners only run fairly slowly in England (so most English sellers
> describe all the bamboo that they sell as "clumping" even when it
> isn't). But nonetheless before long your bamboo will probably be under
> the fence, maybe not this year, but perhaps next year or the following,
> whether you put it hard against the fence or at the front of the bed.
> So unless nextdoor's garden is solid concrete, you should consider
> whether your neighbour will mind having bamboo growing in their garden.
> If not, you should think about installing a proper underground barrier
> to prevent it spreading that way, and that will be easiest to do now.
> You might also want to enclose it fully with a barrier, so it isn't
> popping up where the slate scree is.
Thanks everyone for all the advice!
Will get some macro shots sorted very soon.
Re the barriers and next door/slate etc. Can I not keep on top with
regular pruning?
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