Bamboo in The Garden - Create An Exotic Paradise
You can achieve a lush green garden all year round with minimal upkeep.
These tropical bamboos are perennial and mostly evergreen and offer another dimension to any garden whatever the season, bamboo is one of the most versatile plants with its varied foliage and colourful culms and is ideal as a specimen plant, to use as ground cover or screening your garden giving it privacy combined with natural beauty. Bamboos will mix and match with any garden and different plants like grasses can be added to compliment the bamboo and create different garden themes.
The use of pots and containers can add another dimension creating a whole new look quickly and easily whilst Grasses compliment bamboos beautifully.
Bamboo habits vary from tight, compact clump forming to invasive, running bamboos which offer a little more of a challenge, however with the correct care and attention the running bamboo can be controlled without too much trouble. Heights can range from 10cm to 7m with culm colours from gold, blue, green, purple, red and black.
The Bamboo Plant Bamboo can be defined as, “ Tall or Shrubby Grasses with Woody Stems (Culms)” and are some of the hardiest evergreen plants around, providing all year round interest for your garden. Bamboos are a subfamily of grasses and come from the GRAMINEAE / POACEAE Family, their subfamily being Bambusoideae.
Bamboo comes in many different sizes, from the giants like Dendrocalamus Giganteus and Phyllostachys Edulis, (which can reach over 70ft (20m) even in climates like the Uk with its cold winters) to the Pleioblastus akebono, which grows no bigger than 12 inches (30cm) tall! These larger bamboos make ideal screens or hedges and other than the removal of dead canes needs little or no trimming. There are a wide variety of types, some having coloured canes whilst others have variegated foliage. For example, Phyllostachys aurea (Fishpole or Golden Bamboo) has Golden Canes and Yellow Green Foliage and is ideal for screens or hedges, whilst the compact Phyllostachys nigra has green canes which when mature turn to a shining black.
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