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WANTED:Need some bamboo plants or root shoots

15 years ago

Hi all,

I'm looking for some bamboo to plant in my back yard of minimum diameter of 1.5 inches but no more than 4 inches approximately. I don't have anything to trade or offer for it except to dig it out. I'm new to gardening and I have a project that I want to work on that include bamboo.

I'm in Victoria TX,if you are in Texas I don't mind driving to get it as long as is withing reason. Any help will do

Thank you for you time!

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kentuck_8b
15 years ago
I've seen a few stands of 'wild' bamboo growing along roadsides around Victoria in the past. The kind I mostly saw was fishpole bamboo or P. aurea.

It's a running bamboo and gets about 2 inches in diameter and about 25 feet tall.

There is a small clumping bamboo at a rest area north of Rockport.

How tall of a bamboo are you looking for?

I think you would be better with a clumper...one of the Bambusas. There is a bamboo nursery in Corpus Christi, but I've never been there.

Kt
cs2sw
Original Author
15 years ago
Well, it really does not matter to me how long it gets because I can always cut in down to size.I like the tall bamboos better but a beggar can't be a chooser..Anything above 10 feet will do with a diameter of 1.5 or above.

Thanks for the info!
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