Products: tall bamboo • medium bamboo • ground cover • clumping bamboo
                       Other Products: poles • barrier • grasses • ferns • hostas • perennials

Bamboo Selection 2004

• Other bamboos not on the list are are available in small quantities. Please call for availablilty.

• Hardiness can be influenced by wind, age, and sun exposure.

• Full Sun Part Sun Shade ~ Growth Preferences

• Height indicates Approximate Maximum Growth Height for the North East Region

• Interesting Culms   Desirable Foliage   Good for Crafts

TYPE Tall Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • very hard culms • used in furniture construction HEIGHT 25'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -5°F

TYPE , Tall Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • used for fishing poles • used for walking sticks • compressed internodes toward    the bottom of culm HEIGHT 20-25'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Tall Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • culms are yellow except for    occasional vertical green stripe • occasional zig-zag in culms HEIGHT 35'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -10°F

TYPE Tall Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • culms are yellow w/ green sulcus • occasional zig-zag in culms HEIGHT 35'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -10°F

Phyllostachys aureosulcata: Yellow Grove Bamboo TYPE Tall Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • most popular NE Bamboo. • very cold hardy with   green culms and yellow sulcus • occasional zigzag in the culms HEIGHT 35'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -10°F

Phyllostachys bissetii TYPE Tall Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • culms are an olive green • slender culms • creates dense groves • very vigorous HEIGHT 25'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -15°F

Phyllostachys glauca
	TYPE Tall Bamboo    LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • new culms are tinted a striking    blue • color fades to green with season HEIGHT 35'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -5°F
Phyllostachys nigra: "Black Bamboo"

TYPE Tall Bamboo    LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • beautiful black culms HEIGHT 20'-25'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Tall Bamboo    LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • older culms turn grey • good wood quality HEIGHT 25'-30'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -5°F

TYPE Tall Bamboo    LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • one of the most cold hardy • culms are dark green • powdery-white rings below nodes HEIGHT 35'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -20°F

TYPE Tall Bamboo    LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • wind resistant • long internodes HEIGHT 25'-30'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -5°F

TYPE , Medium Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • long, dark green leaves • good as a houseplant • salt tolerant • slow spreader HEIGHT 15'-18'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Medium Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • large, thick, leathery leaves • does well in pots HEIGHT 7'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -5°F

Pleioblastus argenteostriatus TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • variable cream leaf striping • vigorous and upright habit. HEIGHT 3'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • one of the smallest bamboos • dense, deep-green foliage • quick spreader HEIGHT 10"-12"         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • variable striping of green/white HEIGHT 4'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • good for erosion control • good container plant HEIGHT 2'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • variegated green and yellow • desirable groundcover HEIGHT 3'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • cream-colored variegation • good indoors HEIGHT 6'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • summer solid dark green • attractive variegated leaf in    winter • spreads slowly. HEIGHT 4'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS 0°F

TYPE Ground Cover Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • low shrubby bamboo • broad, oval-shaped leaf • a low maintenance hedge • slow but steady spreader HEIGHT 6-8'         GROWTH Running         HARDINESS -10°F

TYPE Medium Bamboo/Shrub   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • sun tolerant • slow grower HEIGHT 16'         GROWTH Clumping         HARDINESS -10°F

TYPE Medium Bamboo/Shrub   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • culms are greenish purple • weeping foliage • slow grower HEIGHT 12'         GROWTH Clumping         HARDINESS -20°F

TYPE Medium Bamboo/Shrub   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • culms mature to powder-blue • weeping foliage HEIGHT 10'-12'         GROWTH Clumping         HARDINESS -20°F

TYPE Tall Bamboo   LIGHT:         DESCRIPTION • vigorous growth • upright character • dense foliage • sun tolerant HEIGHT 18'-20'         GROWTH Clumping         HARDINESS -5°F