Last year, I had a P. aurea in my office room next to my desk in a 24" pot. It gets pretty much no natural light, so I added multiple lights (still not much). It went okay for about 4 months: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6743974/pictures/bamboo/office-aurea-2015.jpg It did poorly afterwa...

I would recommend planting at least one or two of the three plants outside. From my experience phyllostachys is really fussy as an indoor plant and its health often degrades even further if it does not have a proper dormancy period. That was my initial thought as well, but after looking at how stre...

All my searching has lead me to more confusion than anything else, with conflicting information. Maybe someone can push me in the right direction? I just bought 3 Phyllostachys kwangsiensis bamboos from Hirt's Gardens this month. I swear -- they treat their plants like crap there, and they arrived i...