Fargesia scabrida 'Asian Wonder'

I love bamboos, this is beautiful! I am addicted too, can we see more, please? :)) Welcome to GoY, by the way :))

Hi Michaella - and thanks for your welcome - I'll try and oblige - just let me know when your eyes glaze over!!

I love them, but after 2 years this strikes me as a lot of growth? yet I gather it is non invasive?

It's a very vigorous clumper and isn't suitable in every situation - however its manageable and is quite shallow rooted. The original plant was bought 3 years ago. The picture is one half of the first division I did 2 years ago. The other half I use as a stock plant and its already produced 7 or 8 divisions.

Hi Borinda, I wrote a blog recently call 'The way it was, part2' I dug up a very large bamboo, just as you described there.. it looked big but the root was quite shallow, I managed to dig the whole root plus soil out in less than 5 minutes, I then split it up..got 5 plants out of it which I used to create an arch. I have bamboos scattered around the garden, non have invaded other plants as yet, most of them are age 6 to 7 yrs old.

I really love bamboo. I used to have a very large garden in France, where I had some bamboo in various places (protected of course to stop it spreading) but now I have a little pimple of a garden in the U.K., I have no room for it. It is very frustrating. I love the sound of bamboo when there is a light breeze.

gorgeous bamboo!

Gorgeous classic bamboo shape..the repeated pattern of three leaves facing down and the uprights of the colms...love it!

Think I may need to look for this one. How does it pot up, I 'm thinking it would make a good sun blocker on the sundeck. Pots all in a row to make a screen.????