Quick Guide to Types of Bamboo
Bamboo plants are perfect for adding texture to gardens, borders, and many other outdoor areas.
Here is a quick guide to types of Bamboo so you can browse our bamboo plants for sale.
Discover an array of products that are ideal for spaces of all sizes.
Whether you have a small or large garden, you can be sure that you can buy bamboo plants that will completely transform your outdoor area.
They have a diverse variety of uses and are perfect for use in landscaping projects and Oriental Garden designs.
You can even pot your bamboo in one of our beautiful planters.
Once you buy bamboo plants from us, they can be used as screening between different areas of your garden or will enhance privacy.
You can use our bamboo plants for sale to create hedging, but their lush green leaves will give your garden an exotic look throughout the year.
What’s more, all our plants can be delivered directly to your door, regardless of where you are in the UK.
Here is your quick guide to types of bamboo
Phyllostachys - Running bamboo's, also known as invasive bamboos, produce long rhizomes (underground stems)
Rhizomes grow away from the main plant and will spread rampantly if not contained.
Fargesia - Clump-forming bamboo's grow in tight clumps and are less invasive.
Care and Maintenance
Once established bamboos are vigorous enough to cope well with little additional help.
If grown in containers or on poor, light soil, additional watering and feeding will be needed to promote healthy new growth.
With bamboos that have particularly attractive canes, you can remove some of the lower foliage that often hides them.
Established plants that have been in their current location for two or three years will have well-developed root systems able to support strong growth with healthy foliage.
If established plants start to spread beyond their bounds, the unwanted sections should be dug out and a Bamboo Barrier inserted vertically into the soil to contain the plant.
Newly planted and established bamboos growing in the ground, need to be watered regularly during dry spells in summer.
Plants in containers can dry out more quickly, so should be watered regularly and liberally throughout the growing season.
Lack of water can cause poor growth, leaf drop and die-back.
Feeding Your Bamboo
Don’t rake up fallen foliage, as it contains silica, which bamboo can re-use to boost its strength and stability.
If grown on a poor, light soil bamboos will benefit from a general purpose granular feed in spring.
When grown in containers, bamboos will require additional feeding. Apply a slow release feed during the growing season: March to October.
If you still have concerns about whether Bamboo is the right option for you, here is the RHS quick guide to types of bamboo link RHS site with their views and advice.
Contact Us
We hope our quick guide to types of bamboo has helped.
If you do still have concerns please give us a call and we will be more than happy to discuss your options and give our advice.
Fun facts about bamboo:
- Bamboo is the fastest growing land plant in the world
- Bamboo rarely flowers and seeds, only about every 100 years or so. When it does, every plant of that same species seeds at the exact same time across the globe!
- Bamboo cools down the surrounding air by up to 8 degrees in summer! This acts as a natural air conditioning for your garden and any buildings in proximity.
- A panda's diet is 99% made up of bamboo shoots, poles and leaves, around 12-38kg every day! The other 1% is made up of meat and other plants.
- Clumping bamboo purifies the air up to 30% more effectively then any other plant! Your brain literally gets an oxygen high around it! This makes you happier & relieves tension & headaches!
- Thomas Edison used a carbonized bamboo filament in his very FIRST successful lightbulb!
- Bamboo is naturally anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. Bamboo is used to produce clothing, linen, and bamboo charcoal. Bamboo charcoal absorbs, purifies & deodorises the surrounding atmosphere.
