Landscape photos early october, 2011

[fredgpops]

Yard photos early fall -
Bambusa ventricosa Buddha Belly


Chusquea gigantea grove


Black Bamboo Grove


Chimonobambusa pallens


Mexican Weeping


Drepanostachyum sengteeanum


Mid left Thamnocalamus aristatus/ far back Madake


Pitt White culms


Pitt White full view


Thamnocalamus tessellatus


Yellow Groove hedge


Borinda boliana


Fargesia rufa


Phyllostachys aurea koi


Temple Bamboo


Bambusa oldhamii


Borinda fungosa


Himalayacalamus asper


Borinda hygrophila left - Borinda papyrifera right: note top down development of branching of the hygrophila.


Thamnocalamus aristatus


Chimonocalamus pallens


D. senteeanum - top center


Rgds

[Alan_L]

Really nice! Thanks for posting. Is the "black bamboo" Ph. nigra? It doesn't seem to spread very far for you, unless you're constraining it somehow. How old is it?

[bamboothew]

Wow, great yard pics, thanks for sharing!

[fredgpops]

Yes - this grove is straight nigra. I take out the guys that spread and they go to new homes. This one was planted in 1995 and came from a trailor park that was being demolished. This is only one of two areas that I have installed rhizome barriers. Trying to keep it out of my grass area. Rgds

[Alan_L]

One more: the "temple" is straight fastuosa? How old is it, and how tall is it? It doesn't seem that dense... do you thin it?

[fredgpops]

Correct. Age? About 8 years old. It was transplanted twice during that time. Height - 25ft.
Density - runs pretty much in a straight line which is why it is valued as a tall hedge. In my case, the gophers also value it but as candy, so they have been a factor re density. The mother plant is incased in wire but the new culms are on their own. The gophers seem to be less effective as I have added more stonework in the area. My robusta (not pictured) normally takes a 60% hit via the gophers but took off this year, again, helped by more stone work. Seems they don't like travelling over bare ground, stone, etc. The temple gets a brown/purple texture if it matures in full sun. Rgds

[stevelau1911]

Here's it's baby from a couple of years ago. I find that culms usually take an entire year to turn black, and yes it does spread as there are rhizomes popping up over 1ft away, but I think it will probably still shoot from the center. They look kind of the same.