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How to Grow, Maintain and Control Bamboo | Our Japanese Garden Escape
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How to Grow, Maintain and Control Bamboo | Our Japanese Garden Escape



This video covers all things bamboo, from the incredible way in which bamboo grows in just one season to how different types of bamboo respond to our climate. We look at four different varieties of bamboo, both running and clumping, including golden bamboo, arrow bamboo, Fargesia bamboo and the beautiful black bamboo. In addition we cover multiple different ways of maintaining healthy bamboo in general, but also controlling the spread of running bamboo and the different ways this can be achieved.

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Plants mentioned in this video:
Golden bamboo – Phyllostachys aurea – evergreen, running
Arrow bamboo – Pseudosasa japonica – evergreen, running
Black bamboo – Phyllostachys nigra – evergreen, running
Fargesia or Dragon Head bamboo – Fargesia rufa – evergreen, clumping

We are in a climate/hardiness zone 6 and all plants above are growing well in our garden.

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28 Comments

  8. travel with Jahid

    🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩 Not Japani Garden it’s Bangladeshi bamboo forest
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  11. E

    thank you for your video!! im actually writing a book set in a bamboo forest so this was VERY helpful for my imagination

  12. Secret Spud

    Your English is so perfectly fluent (with an Austrian accent, of course). Did you live in the US for a while?

  14. roadracer1584

    Bamboo is a nuisance plant and should be eradicated every opportunity. A county ordinance where I live requires homeowners prevent bamboo from spreading on to a neighbor's property. You could get fined $3,000 if your neighbor complains about your bamboo. I hate bamboo!

  15. David Welty

    This was helpful. I am starting my bamboo garden here in Florida. It seems to like our climate as well.

  17. Sonja Lewis

    I don't know if I can bear to see your entire video. Golden bamboo can be EXTREMELY hard to control, when it is planted with poor knowledge and safeguards. I am in a very large mobile home lot in northern California, 30 miles from the coast in Zone 8, with winter lows of 25F and summer highs of 103F. Decades ago someone irresponsibly planted a border of golden bamboo, which I "inherited" 4 years ago. I was able to only dig out a 4'x8'x2' section, because most of the area contains valuable tree and shrub roots. The rhizomes were 3/4" to 1" thick, tougher and more knarly than the poles. Even where the original stand receives no water after early spring rains, the rhizomes send up new shoots EVERY week, March through October! Vinegar does NOT discourage this bamboo. Salt would poison the soil for other plants. Herbicides? Some recommendations say the strongest ones are made for broad-leafed plants, and they recommend glyphosate (Roundup). Roundup has been overused and can cause certain cancers. Any eradication program takes knowledgeable planning and great care. Barriers? Concrete barriers eventually fail. Plastic ones, like the one in this blog, must be deep enough, and if they are damaged years later, the bamboo rhizomes escape. However, this bamboo seems to be tamed (perhaps by root disease?) when grown in pots?? –but the drainage holes still must be regularly checked for escapees.

  18. Barbara Whitehead

    I live in Grants Pass, OR. I have 4 or 5 different kinds of bamboo. My black bamboo is seeding. I can't tell if it is dying.
    I also have a huge bamboo. Sold as timber bamboo. It is doing very well and my golden bamboo is also not flowering. Thank you for your information.

  20. wthomas

    I thought you had the same accent as Arnold. I'm surprised you can grow bamboo like that in Austria.

  27. kezonline

    A brilliant explanation of all things Bamboo, from it's beauty to pitfalls and care. Great video!! Subbed.

  28. Jie Lin

    This is really helpful. i started to grow my compact bamboo by the fence without root block. As do not want it spread to neighbour‘s, i just remove the new shoots which are too close to the fence. i am wondering if this controlling is good enough and if the roots will still spread underneath to neighbour's – although it's not the running type. would be really appreciated to hear your comments.❤

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