Beautiful pictures and great expert advice !!!!

I'm a long time bamboo lover ... growing up in So. Florida, our yard was full of B. vulgaris ... and I loved it.

We moved up to the Shenandoah Valley a few years back ... and I really missed my bamboo ... more-so than the beach ... ha, ha

Anyway, my wife just bought me a small P. vivax ... from a wonderful Virginia nursery ... about 3 hrs south of here.

It arrived yesterday ... and I am planting it (it's a C-80 size) this weekend.

It's a "Father's Day" gift ... am I'm want to do get it off to a good start.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated ...

We live in the middle of the Valley and in winter ... the winds really whips over the Appalachians to our west.

Temps never really fall into the single digits ... 'cept for a few days maybe ... but the wind chill can be tough.

We live in a three story log home ... so I was thinking about "using it" as a wind block ... but don't want to get too close to the house ...

We had a guest house in Palm Beach ... where B. vulgaris shot a culm, right up through the hard wood floor .. ha, ha ...

Not much to say. Dig a hole 2x as big as depth and width of current root ball, and mix in lots of composted cow manure, $1/40 lb sac here in TX. Plant it, keep it moist.

I had my vivax divsion, received in August 04, in a 19-gal pot. A few weeks later, 5 or 6 3/8" rhizomes where spilling out the top of the container. I figured the 19-gallons wasn't big enough and transplanted it to the ground.

Still hasn't really sized up, but has put up many culms in a small radius, has a bushy appearance, hasn't really run much .