jamesdart

i did the real heavy poly barrier. it was a pain but hopefully it will work. the guy i got my bamboo from had a grove that must have been 60x140. he was trying to find enough people that would take it for free that he could make it smaller without paying some one to do it. i took 22 clumps and didnt put a dent in it. no idea what type it is but i see a lot of it around that must be the same. the largest was probably a little over 2" in diameter and a little more than 30' tall. i didnt take any of the largest, i figured the culms were near the end of thier lives, but the stuff i took still hung 8' off the end of my 18' trailer. i bought some p.bissetti last year at a flower sale i have that in 2 pots. my mother in law is a plant lover, she picked a huge pot out of the trash in her development a few years ago, i just took it over last week and split it into 3 24" pots. i think it is also p.bisseti and i have another small pot that i have no clue what it is. the black stuff is cool, but very expensive. one day my brother went to his town dump and saw a guy leaving with a trailer when he went to dump his shrubs he found a huge pile of chopped down black bamboo. i have my eye on a small grove at a house that is going to be demoed soon. it is about 12-15' tall. the stuff really is all over the place here in nj, i find liek anything else you really start to notice it everywhere when you get some.