Re: Bamboo

Don't you just love PDN's quips? Can't tell from your reply if you are familiar with PDN. Send them a box of chocolates - you'll love the catalog, especially the covers!

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Taborri" <taborri@rochester.rr.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bamboo


Yes-- that'll be it (and thought I'd grabbed the tag but forget
now)............ but...........that site just CAN'T be legit!! After all--it
says "Fargesia rufa is a pachymorph, which means that it couldn't run even if
it was being chased down the mountain by a pack of starving pandas." Uh....
pack of starving pandas????!!!!

Sue
Upstate NY, Zone 6


----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 19:59
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bamboo


There is a Fargesia rufa. Does it look like this:

http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/Detail/06563.html


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taborri" <taborri@rochester.rr.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bamboo


May be called a Rufa Bamboo-- I'll get tag tomorrow. New cultivar, she
stated
intended to be more sun and wind tolerant. She said time will tell. I'll
keep y'all posted.
Sue, Upstate NY, Zone 6


----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Carpenter
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 19:07
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bamboo


The thing about bamboo is that the clumpers are plants that are very
winter hardy, but do not do well in the midwestern prairie heat.

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On May 3, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Taborri wrote:

I saw the Fargesias and we were working on getting me one, but I
forget why we
did not.  I ended up with......<tag outside and I forget the
name> ......  I
think it was a Rufus Bamboo, or similar name?  This is a new-ish
variety which
is supposed to be more sun and wind tolerant than most (Have I already
reported this?).  I was advised to fertilize-- I gave it some
Miracle Grow and
it seems quite happy in it's new location, greening right up and
all.  :>
Sue, Upstate NY, Zone 6

----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 09:46
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bamboo


Fargesia nitida and a few other Fargesias are hardy to zone 5.
These are
Mountain Bamboo types that clump rather than run.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5

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