"Tihomir" <tihomir.pupek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Tihomir" <tihomir.pupek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Unexpectedly, my Phyllostachys aureosulcata began to shoot. I was
>> mowing my backyard (it was very early for first mowing as well), not
>> expecting there will be bamboo shoots, and the other day I noticed
>> that I cut few emerging clums while mowing.
>> Last year this bamboo started to shoot around 1st of May. Month and a
>> half later! But of course, we litteraly had no winter in continental
>> parts of Croatia this year. That's why it started so early.
>>
>> Last year it was so:
>>
>> Fargesia mid April
>> Phylostachys aureosulcata late April
>> vivax mid May
>> nigra late May
>> Pleioblastus May
>> Pseudosasa June
>>
>> When bamboos shoot in your gardens, people?
>>
>> Tihomir
>>
>
> Well, no one is interesed. I would expect people on bamboo group to be
> as much excited about bamboo shooting season as I am, but obviously
> that is not the fact.
>
> At the moment vivax is shooting, to. Also Fargesias, aureosulcata
> 'Spectabilis', some Pleioblastus.
> Ph. nigra, Pseudosasa and Pl. linearis are still waiting - for how
> long, I wonder? Temperatures here in Croatia are as if it is late May
> or June, but it is very dry, no rain in last 4 weeks.
There is more action in the Yahoo bamboo groups.
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