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Posted by wendyLee 2/3 4/5 (eddyricka@hotmail.com) on Sat, Feb 12, 05 at 20:16
Hi all, I was walking along this street in SW Calgary and walked by a large cement planter front of a restaurant and stopped dead in my tracks. There are 3 big planters with BAMBOO in them. The bamboo has not dropped it's leaves and are still pliable. beautiful.
I popped inside and asked the manager about them. He was kind enough to spend a moment to explain the bamboo had grown 3 feet in one year. He seems like a plant lover too so I invited him to join the garden web. hope he joins.
the restaurant is called CRUSH, haven't eaten there yet but I will go with my daught and husband.
it is on
1312 12 avenue SW
the bamboo is right out in front . you can't miss em. go check them out. I was amazed. the manager said they are called 'black bambo' unsure if that is the proper name.
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RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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Are you sure, it's not a fake one?
Can you ask, how many Years it's been outside. Lori,...go check it out!
Konrad |
RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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| Hmmm, I hope it's not the "bamboo" I bought as a novice gardener, which turned out to be fallopia japonica - I forget the common name, but this is very hardy and also very invasive. Obviously not a problem in a planter in downtown Calgary though! |
RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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| About your heart skipping a beat, I wouldn't hold my breath, especially if it is black bamboo, and ESPECIALLY in an esposed pot above ground. I just went out and looked at my Fargesia(bamboo) here in zone 4a and in the ground. Leaves are actually still supple, although brown and curled on itself, making them look kind of like big needles. This Fargesia is rated two zones colder than black bamboo, and there is no hope for these leaves as evergreen. My best guess is that it IS bamboo, even black bamboo, but the restaurant buys new each spring for the effect. Every day on the way to work I drive by a 10-16ft(3-5m) palm, depending on the year. Of course it doesn't have a prayer in our winter climate. The owner of the company(not a restaurant) replants every spring. Very nice because he gets different species each season. Rick |
RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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| My guess is that it's a summer ornamental too... just like (ironically) the cedars in planters that get replaced each year by various restaurants and businesses. Unless something comes up tomorrow at noon, I may swing by and take a look... |
RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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| Reminds me of my neighbor. She bought two palm trees and kept them in pots on her deck for the summer. I thought to myself "why not?", she got them for around $10 each and you pay more for those pre-planted hanging baskets. |
RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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FYI:
http://www.bambooworld.com/ It's a canadian seller of bamboo. They have several varieties that survive -30C. |
RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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Thanks Mitanoff,
like this one:Arundinaria gigantea ‘Macon’ clone – Macon Rivercane
rated for minus 33 C. Native to USA
But I think this is a small bush type??, haven't checked it out. |
RE: bamboo in calgary!!!
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By the way, thinking about bamboo...
The Calgary restaurant that had bamboo in its planters last year (and it certainly looked like a bamboo last winter), has an entirely different plant display in them this year...strongly suggests to me that the bamboo did not winter... On another note, I really intended to make an order to "Bamboo World" out in Duncan, B.C. this spring but never did...however, a local greenhouse brought in a couple of types of bamboo so I eventually broke down and bought one - Sasa tsuboiana 'Green View' (trademarked, no less). According to the "patent holder" (Bamboo Select), it's supposedly hardy to -30 C. We'll see... The other one the greenhouse brought in was a Pleioblastus species (don't recall which). Hmm, the best case might be the worst case. That is, if it survives, I suspect I'll come to regret having let it loose in my raised bog bed, LOL! Oh well, I have until next spring, at least, to figure out a method of restraint...on the slight chance that it is eventually needed. |
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