How to Grow, Maintain and Control Bamboo | Our Japanese Garden Escape

This video covers all things bamboo, from the incredible way in which bamboo grows in just one season to how different types of bamboo respond to our climate. We look at four different varieties of bamboo, both running and clumping, including golden bamboo, arrow bamboo, Fargesia bamboo and the beautiful black bamboo. In addition we cover multiple different ways of maintaining healthy bamboo in general, but also controlling the spread of running bamboo and the different ways this can be achieved.

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Plants mentioned in this video:
Golden bamboo - Phyllostachys aurea - evergreen, running
Arrow bamboo - Pseudosasa japonica - evergreen, running
Black bamboo - Phyllostachys nigra - evergreen, running
Fargesia or Dragon Head bamboo - Fargesia rufa - evergreen, clumping

We are in a climate/hardiness zone 6 and all plants above are growing well in our garden.

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[Shadow-ukoh]

Wow! I’m Bamboozled she got a whole garden!

[IndianHemlock]

Very beautiful !! And very informative !! Thank you !! I bet the birds love the bamboo !

[idlando]

Excellent video, extremely useful and informative.. basically all my bamboo questions were answered and more.

This is how a video should be made, thanks for posting!

[matteo]

Lovely video and lovely person, thank you. 💚

[goodfellazbushcraft]

Love watching bamboo videos because im new to planting bamboo in my garden

[johnmartin]

Wonderful presentation…..Bamboo is such a unique plant…..thank you

[ronaldbarrett]

Excellent information. All done video. Thank you.

[elainemunro]

Your various examples were helpful to me in deciding which way to go, thanks!

[LehewTech]

Thank you for this presentation! I have learned everything I wanted to know about bamboo and this will save me so much trial and error with my project.

[hog-boy-]

Excellent, very to the point and practical. Thanks.

[bampidraws]

Amazing info, thank you very much. I can now sort mine out having seen this video. I have Arrow, Dwarf White-Stripe and Golden Bamboo.

[StudentLoanMillionaire]

Thanks, you explain in a clear great way, well done.

[AnywhereButHome_PinoyAko]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about these types of bamboo.

[stevenlight]

Thanks I appreciate my bamboo now and will look to it .

[CharlesGriffith]

Suberb videos...informative and interesting...a tough combo

[ashzgtx]

awesome video. Very informative. Thank you

[MrGreglarry]

Thanks for the video. It was very helpful.

[mmukhlis]

thank you so much for sharing...!! nice bamboe

[kitteninmybed]

Wow, you have such a beautiful garden 🥰

[amirkhalaf]

Thank U for your good information about bamboo