We carry additional varieties of bamboo in smaller quantities that are also available for sale. These varietals can rotate year round. Please inquire regarding our unlisted bamboo plants via phone or during your farm visit to see if these varieties could be used for your application.
Bamboo 14-20 Feet Tall
SEMIARUNDINARIA FASTIUOSA
Common Name: Temple Bamboo
Characteristics: Erect, dark green culms, taking on a crimson tint when exposed to solar heat. Column-like shape; supple, dense foliage, concentrated around the culm, from top to bottom. Short upright branches with long leaves.
Fastiuosa’s straight shape allows it to be great to use for decorative effects. It’s a wonderful bamboo when used as a screen because it’s an excellent windbreaker.
Key Features:
- Ornamental value, because of its very erect form, very formal looking bamboo. The wine coloring it achieves with age just adds to the beauty and interest.
- Great for a bamboo "avenue", such as an entry driveway
- Great for narrow screens, due to its short branches.
- Great for your Private Paradise, a live bamboo walled outdoor room.
- Bonsai look can be achieved by cutting main braches, responds by sending may small branchettes creating alternating "puffs".
- One of our most popular screening bamboos. Very Cold Hardy.
Max Local Height: 20 ft.
Origin: China
PHYLLOSTACHYS BISSETII
Common Name: Bissetii
Characteristics: Shiny, dark green culms and leaves.
Bissetii can withstand dry and cold environments. This beautiful bamboo also grows well in pots. It’s very vigorous and dense, making it an exceptional privacy screen and windbreaker. Under direct sun the culms will achieve a golden color to their culms. In more shaded applications they will remain greener in color.
Key Features:
- Dense green foliage.
- This is one of the fastest growers. When installed with rhyzome barrier you can achieve a very dense screen in only one year.
- Great sweet shoots, tastes like sweet peas.
- Great in pots.
- Small rhyzomes enable a privacy screen in very narrow spaces.
Max Local Height: 15 ft.
Origin: China
PHYLLOSTACKY NIGRA
Common Name: Black Bamboo
Characteristics: Culm is green at first, darkening over time, after 1-2 years it turns to a shiny, jet black culm.
This bamboo is a "must have" in your garden because its jet-black color stands out amongst the others. It is said that this bamboo grows larger in northern climates. It does well in pots and prefers partial shade, but likes to be sheltered from wind.
What’s very interesting and unique about this bamboo is that when you cut the cane it keeps its color, which makes it perfect for ornamental usage.
Key Features:
- Ornamental value, jet-black coloring is magnificant
- Looks great when mixed with other varieties in a grove or screen setting.
- Good in pots.
- Culms are prized for crafts
Max Local Height: 15 ft.
Origin: China
PHYLLOSTACHYS AUREA 'Koi'
Common Name: Koi
Characteristics: Culms are green at first, then becoming yellow with a green sulcus after a few months and with compressed nodes at the base.
Koi does very well in pots and indoors and doesn't spread quickly. The compressed nodes at the base of the plant resembles the hand grip on a walking stick. It grows best in a warm and sunny environment.
Related to Golden Bamboo
Key Features:
- Ornamental value, the qualities of golden in a colorful version
- Good in Pots
- Good indoors
- Slow spreading
