My nigra DID flower- about 3 years ago. And its looked like dog vomit since, and this last weekend I gave up nursing it and we leveled a 12 year old grove, painful as that was to do. Left a bare eyelash fringe of about 60 old culms along one edge so the site wouldn't be utterly denuded while some re...

I've had bamboo going for about 7 years, 5 with a large area covered- and nothing tries to sprout under the groves once established. I get the rare odd weed trying it on, but mostly, nothing. And our property is at the extreme weed phase after massive dirt disturbance to the entire place. The duff a...

This is not specifically about bamboo- but this link, I think to part 4 but you can back up and find part 'introduction' of this lecture- is the most valuable place to start about soil, period. Changed my thinking entirely. I think if you watch this, it will change the question your asking, to a deg...

I stumbled across one in a nursery 5 or 6 years ago, and bought it. Only time I've ever laid eyes on one before or since. Its one of my favorite garden features, because its quirky, I guess. Not sure why I like the thing so much. Whole area near it when it blooms smells like... pineapples.

I have no expertise, but I do have experience. The time lightening struck at my house, it went for the cluster of 5 foot tall shepherd's hooks poked in the ground under a 35' elm tree, in a row of 10 similarly sized elm trees, next to a two story house. Snaked right down and slammed those hooks... w...

Zero F is what I'm using.

It wasn't even very badly top killed- just the top couple of feet of the highest culms, and some on the fringe, got zapped. It wasn't sub-zero all day, either. But we dipped below zero every night for that week. We have a wisteria arbor made of 4 inch pipe, and the pipes split open. My tumidissinoda...

I reported a few months back that my black bamboo was flowering. The general consensus (hope) then was that the extreme smoke we had in our area last summer had caused it. Then for winter, here in S. Oregon, there was a week of intense cold. My place saw sub-zero the whole week. I couldn't assess wh...

Shmu, my place here in S Oregon dropped below zero during that December snap. My Henon shows a lot of leaf burn on the uphill side of the grove (takes the brunt as the cold sinks down the hill behind me, headed to the river a mile out in front), my tumidissionda got hit the worst. Looks awful, but t...

I've read of the smoke experiments someone on here did, to try to stress-trigger a flowering. That's an interesting thought. The smoke here in S Oregon last summer was unreal. We couldn't see 50 feet across our yard for weeks, and the smoke lasted months at varying levels. Had to buy a hospital-grad...

Cleaning up a 4 or 5 year old grove today from snow/cold damage, and ran across several spindly culms that had old seed heads on them. Probably from this last summer- I couldn't get outside because of wildfire smoke. Just the hulls left, but clearly flowering, to my inexpert eye. Anyone else seeing ...

Aw man! Why doesn't all that cyanide kill the $%*@#! ground squirrels? Seems to just make them more successful breeders.

I thought it was probably another word for coppicing and pollarding. Wheew. I planted a Paulownia here in Southern Oregon nearly 5 years ago. I read ahead of time all about them, because I hadn't encountered one in person. They're not common in my area. The claims were that they have multiple tap ro...

johnw wrote:These Paulownia tomentosa in the Annapolis were stooled
johnw

One hesitates to ask... but what happens to a tree when its stooled?

You mention skimpy division but it came in a 15 gal. container from a known grower. I have taken division from a local wild grove which were quite small ( maybe a gallon or so ) and these have really taken off? Happens even with the best of intentions. Sometimes... the buds just aren't there. I div...