Jerry is visiting Sam and Matt Birkwood, who run a nursery that specialises in bamboo.
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Sam and Matt had been living in Asia and saw how many ways bamboo is used there, so when they returned to Australia about five years ago, they bought a bamboo nursery.
They now grow about 100 varieties and offer about 35 varieties for sale.
🍃Featured plants: 🌿
Running Bamboo (Phyllostachys sp.)*
Clumping Bamboo (Bambusa sp.)
Slender Weaver’s Bamboo (Bambusa textilis ‘Gracilis’)
Buddha Belly’s Bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris ‘Wamin’)*
White Bamboo (Bambusa chungii ‘Emperor White’)
Thai Silk Bamboo (Bambusa multiplex syn. B. nana)
* Check before planting: this may be an environmental weed in your area.
This segment is from Gardening Australia Season 35, Episode 32 titled “Spring: Vegies in pots, leeks & bamboo”.
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22 Comments
My Chinese neighbour in Sydney always had a big crop of bamboo shoots from his backyard — absolutely delicious fresh — nothing like the stuff in tins.
Wow thank you for the info. Now I just need to know how to kill my running bamboo. Please🎉
I plant "slender weaver bamboo" in big pots. My neighbor love them. I live in Southern California.
If you have running bamboo, what is the surest way to get rid of it?
Great video guys. I love bamboo.
Buddhas belly.. it’s on my wish list 🎋
And its carbon negative to the atmosphere right? 😮
I've been trying to get Oldhamii growing at my place in Tasmania, but it just doesn't seem to want to grow. I've had three plants for nearly 3 years and they just won't get any taller than my knee 😭
I bought bamboo recently (Bambusa Claucescens CV) primarily for the purpose of growing my own garden canes. I nearly killed it off by keeping it in my greenhouse while the weather was still warming up… but it has a few shoots and some of the canes have some fresh growth since moving it outside… so hopefully it's ok.
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Typical lying salesman. You can't just snip bamboo like that to control height. Works for a few years. After that the bamboo gets wider and the shoots are inside the clump in mass numbers. You can't easily reach inside to do that. Also it is like fiberglass and will make you itch. The bamboos as they age can have lots of dead in the center. Many people rather have it removed than go through the hassle of cleaning it out. Not easy to get a saw in between the fresh new culms because they grow so tightly. Even being a clumper many people rather get rid of them because the footprint takes up more space much faster than they realized. Older bamboo even hedgy ones can lose their bushy texture over time giving a bushy top and ratty bottom making it look very ugly. Bamboo can be a fantastic plant when done right but salesman are liars because they do know the hassle and regret that homeowners have after 5 or 10 years and the expense to remove it. It is very expensive to remove especially if the wrong bamboo in a small tight space. Expect to pay a lot.
Hey guys I have a question about the White Emperor bamboo. Could you possibly use that talcum stuff for chafe ? Would it stop chafing? And if you make a product I'll have a percentage of the sales 😂. Thanks.
Would like a tip on best to grow to eat
Bamboo is a wonderful .material
Try eating bamboo shoots before thinking it's a great food source. To some (like me) it smells like there's been a sewage leak at the spring roll factory.
Yesssss! Ive been planning to set up a bamboo pot in my yard. What a timely video 💖
That's good for environment but an invasive species because it covers all the ground that other plants are not able to grow themselves
I grow Oldhamii, Weavers Bamboo, Multiplex and Tiger Grass in Perth – fruit and vege aren't the only useful plants to grow! 🙂
My Giant Timber Bamboo is food, firewood, construction material, biomass, privacy screen and windbreak.
I'd love to grow a running black bamboo, but we aren't trusted to grow such things in WA nowadays….
I bought 2 pots of Buddha's Belly from the Guy who used to own that Nursery about 15yrs ago(he had an absolutely massive specimen out the front & the culms were about 6-8 inches in diameter! I planted 1 in a 1000ltr Pot & 1 in the ground & they're both only about 50mm in diameter each(culms) with the one in the ground being about 3m across & 12m high(he told me they only grow 6-8m!
Very good bamboo shoots and useful and can make everything ❤
When you have cut down the giant bamboo shown in the last segment of this video, how do we kill the rest of the shoots, as they keep growing back? We poison them and they still grow back. We were sold the fastest growing screening bamboo for our semi-rural, but urban house block. It cost thousands to cut down and still it grows back. Do you have any suggestions on how to kill it off, including the awful giant rhizomes that invade our grass and neighbour's garden? This monster plant should not be sold as clumping, and should be banned from being sold as safe for screening for urban gardens.
It takes over. It shouldn’t be allowed in Australia.