While many times on this blog I have featured the various larger sizes of bamboo I grow here in Central Arkansas, I have several other species of bamboo which in no way are as majestic as my "giants", but still offer me the grace, color & enjoyment all bamboo provides me.
The photo below -- which includes my sweet "Momma Kitty",
PRECIOUS -- is a bamboo species called
SASA PALMATA. As you can tell, this is NOT a very
large growing bamboo, only averaging about five to six feet in height. It makes a nice "boarder" planting & -- like all bamboo I grow -- is evergreen through out the year; something to appreciate in the dead of Winter.
I acquired this plant in 2006 from
LEWIS BAMBOO via mail order back in March, 2006. I purchased TWO plants at the time & the area we are standing in front of represents the growth since then of just ONE plant. Like most "running bamboo", the
SASA PALMATA is an "aggressive grower" each year & must be "controlled" if it is to remain ... "tamed". Thankfully this can be done with a lawnmower; cutting down the new growth as it appears in the Spring. Older growth can be removed/thinned with a "weed eater".
Bamboo -- of all sizes -- plays a major role in the landscaping of my property & I enjoy all of it, from the 50-60 foot "giants", to the smaller sizes, as I have featured today.
What a great photo - of Precious, your "Sasa Palmata" and you. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI like the privacy it offers. A friend has bamboo ringing his back yard and it blocks nearly all views.
ReplyDeleteI really like it! And it looks like a good place for the cats to hide when it gets hot.
ReplyDeleteALL -- Much of the bamboo in the mail order business is sold for the effect of privacy, since it does not take long -- for any species of bamboo -- to get thick & block out both noise & "unwanted" neighbor viewing.
ReplyDeleteAnd, "YES" ... this bamboo is a favorite place for hunting/hiding by my cats.