The most beautiful timber bamboo garden there is - and it's my own yard- Growing big timber bamboo.
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- A tour of my 60 year old timber bamboo garden - Is this the nicest bamboo garden in the United States? Tips on upkeep - how to grow bamboo - how to make a barrier to keep the roots out - best way to cut it down.
What you have there is Phyllostachys vivax. I do not think it is Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon' for two reasons. Typically Henon once it is mature, which your bamboo definitely is, the culm color, the blue (gray almost white) waxy coating, is visible as soon as the culm sheaths fall off as the culms are shooting. They do not turn that color with age, if anything they loose there very blue gray-whitish color with time as the wax eventually sloughs off. Also Henon like all nigras have small leaves compared to most other Phyllostachys. In the shot with the drone, and the shot where you are using the reciprocating saw on the dead canes, those leaves are too large for Henon.
Also as you said most mature Henon ranges anywhere from 3 to 4.5 inches. I have seen a few get close to 5 inches but the majority in groves that I have encounter are in that range, at least here in South and North Carolina. An exception to this is the grove in Cherokee, NC, on an island in the middle of a river right by the town hall. Those average over 4 inches easily. It also is not Moso, the easiest way to tell if you have Moso is to feel the new, one year old, culms. If they do not feel like velvet, seriously like velvet, it is not Moso. Also Moso has smaller leaves than Henon. So again this had fairly large leaves, so this would indicate it is not Moso.
So the one bamboo that is easily misidentified with vIvax is Phyllostachys bambusoides, Japanese Timber Bamboo or Madake. Both Phyllostachys vivax and Phyllostachys bambusoides grow to the roughly the same height, have similar culm coloration, the culms age similarly, have similar leaf shape and size, shoot at nearly the same time, and their shoots have a very similar appearance. The one obvious distinguishing feature that one can easily use to distinguish between the two species is the white waxy ring under the node. In vivax the white waxy ring is very prominent on new shoots and will stay prominent for a couple years. Bambusoides is solid green without the prominent white waxy ring under the node.
The reason why people think this is Henon is because of the color of the culms, that blue gray coloration. Like I mentioned earlier, Henon culms start out that way if not more whitish blue, and over time the culms fades a little to more of a green, blue-gray. Both vivax and bambusoides' on the other hand start out green, and over time their culms turn bluish gray. They have almostthe reverse aging characteristics of Henon.
Like you mentioned in the video and others have asked for, the one true way to distinguish between Vivax, Henon and Moso, and to be definitively sure what you have, is to look at the new shoots. Henon has a cinnamon, pinkish-red culm sheath that has tiny hairs covering them. They have stiff vertically erect culm blades, that are are curvy like a kris knife,. Moso has very hairy, again velvety, dark splotchy culm sheaths, that are patterned similar to the spots of a melanistic leopard. Moso has crinkly culm blades, and a mass profusion of long coarse hairs surrounding the blades. Vivax has smooth culm sheaths, no hairs. They're culm sheaths are dark spotted a bit similar to moso, but they have no hairs present on the sheaths. Their sheath blades are also crinkly but loose, long and fall downward toward the ground at the top of the shoot. They are multi-striped and colored from pink to orange to beige and some colors in between which run the lengthwise along the blade. Noe if you notice a tuff of stiff coarse hairs around the base of those culm blades, as opposed to no hairs, then you likely have bambusoides.
Sorry for the long descriptions, but those are some characteristics that can help you determine what type of bamboo you have.
Wow thanks for the expert knowledge! The culm sheaths on my bamboo have no hair present including the the base of the culm sheaths which have no hair... So I must have Vivax?
i was goning to almost type the same thing
Wrote a whole book
Expert knowledge! Thank you for sharing
Wow great response, are you a professor? I need a book or two (for beginners). What do you suggest?
The gentle rustling sound bamboo makes in a breeze is very soothing.
I also have a Giant bamboo garden I just propagated last year and now have 32 first-year shoots and so excited to see it mature into its full size. You might already know but bamboo grows to its full size in around 60 days and never grows taller but sheds and regrows its leaves every year after. What an amazing plant!
I'd like to purchase bamboo that is larger than 3" in diameter, would you know anyone that is willing to sell a few trees?
How tall does it grow in 60 days???
@@MaddoxVicRealtor A mature tree will grow to around 50ft in 60 days
Can you keep this thick kind at a certain height? Or will shaving off the tops be a bad thing for it?
@@jayb.8460 You can cut as low as you want it won't hurt it
10 inches a day?! Wow!! Wouldn't it be fun to watch it grow.
Thanks for sharing..
If you can’t watch it, place a tape recorder in a waterproof bag and set it next to the plant. You can literally hear bamboo grow.
bamboo can grow 3ft a day
Thank You for taking the time to create and share this wonderful video with us all. This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I have never seen something this gorgeous in someone's yard!!!
Thanks so much!
When my parents built a hut for our weekend getaway in the Philippines, they used bamboos gathered from the forest. The hut lasted more than 30 years until recently the family decided to demolish the structure due to a new build project. The giant bamboo posts were still good all these years.
Wow. Amazing
Nipa hut
Do you know what they did to treat the bamboo to keep it nice?
@@newolde1 unfortunately I do not know I was only about 9 that time and oblivious to what the adults were doing.
Too bad gone are the adults who knew how to harvest bamboos in my family.
Night lighting in the grove is magnificent!
Thanks!
Bamboo tissue, bamboo paper, and all sort of bamboo pulp products getting more and more popular. Some bamboo grow so fast in just months, compared to trees that requires years or even decades. Bamboo is indeed an amazing plant!
Thanks for the info!
...even cloth made from bamboo. Nice and soft texture.
Just started the Bamboo. Needed the research info. Thank you to you and your wife. Good job.
Thanks... good luck with ur bamboo
Absolutely amazing bamboo yard!!!👏 😍
Thanks...
Definitely Moso, it grows 70-80 feet high and one of the best for manufacturing floors furniture etc. I am going to seed them in FL property. Its gorgeous.
Well it's not moso - "Culm sheaths of Phyllostachys edulis are yellow-brown or purple-brown with dark brown spots, and covered with densely brown hairs" my culm sheaths are smooth with no hair - so it's definitely no moso bamboo - I am still trying to figure out what it is!
I don’t want to risk an invasive species getting loose in my home, but bamboo is just so cool and useful, I would really like to cultivate some.
2-3 foot barrier is all you need to confine it -
@@growproteas1148 what kind of barrier do you need? Does it need to go underground or would a wall be sufficient?
@@Moonbeams0 needs to go under ground 2-3 feet - they sell plastic which works well
Very pretty, that would make wonderful pictures.
Thanks!
Beautiful in the eyes of bamboozled!!
Ha ha I love my bamboo
@@growproteas1148 - Most people that have bamboo on their property think it's a curse! Planted by the devil himself!
Great video! Your garden looks awesome, so different to most. I've considering a bamboo garden in our new build. Early days! A lot more investigation required, but a good start, thank you.
good luck - bamboo can be a beautiful plant!
Love it. My dream residence is small lil place surrounded by Bamboo.
I love it every day..
Even the sound of wind thru it👍😎
Gorgeous!!!!! I'm super jealous of this garden/forest!
Thanks... I really cherish it...
@@growproteas1148 That's great!!! I'm glad you are enjoying it!!!!
Really like your channel...in Bali we have many kind of bamboo that we can make to built a house ( bamboo house ) , art , rope , fence , flute and any kind of music tools and food
wonderful!!!
@JohnDoe-gi1vr in Bali we use kind bamboo of Dendrocalamus asper ,Gigantochloa apus (in latin name )
That truely is a treasure
Absolutely wonderful ~ what an amazing achievement. Love the bamboo! You have put an incredible amount of work into your bamboo garden! Beautiful bamboo.
thanks so much... I enjoy it every day
I needed a single beam. I asked the lady across the street if I could cut down one of her giant bamboo canes. She allowed me. My sawsall went through it, but not that quickly. I think because it was GREEN. It was very heavy. It worked well for my need.
Nice clip.
I tapped the thumbs up 👍 button to feed the algorithm monsters.
thanks so much - the green bamboo cuts easier than dried dead bamboo -
So beautiful. There are many uses of the bamboo, here in the States you can cut it to a 8ft long and split them to make furniture, garden trellis, or fence, much stronger than pine wooden fence and last longer, too. Also, you can eat young shoot or make them sour bamboo shoot for year long sweet and sour soup.
Thanks!
Such a cool plant. I was working over in SC years ago and happened across some of that monster bamboo. Had to be close to 6 inches. Can't for the life of me remember where it was at. About 25 years ago I guess?
You are so blessed to be able to enjoy that every day. What a grove!
thanks so much - yes I love it every day!
You are very lucky to have this giant bamboos n your yard. You can make beautiful furniture, your bamboo is a fortune...
Thanks so much!
My goal is to start a bamboo garden in order to sustainably supply my future homestead with building material! It makes more sense than planting trees and waiting decades for it to grow to size.. bamboo is amazing and so regenerative! I hope to one day make a chicken coop from bamboo!
yes it grows so fast - you will do well...
Plant large and smaller diameter bamboos. Different sizes often needed for projects.
🙃nice. crawling bamboo. there are bunching bamboo...blessings
crawling bamboo that i have is a lot of work to contain...
Totally agree with your sawzall comment. Quicker than a hand saw and more access than a chainsaw. Based on your need for a barrier and the escaping rhizome you definitely have a running bamboo. As to species I'd look back through some gardening or horticulture magazines to see what was popular and available in your area back around the time your bamboo was planted. Back then many garden centres didn't appreciate the difference between clumping and running bamboo resulting in a bad rap for bamboo in general when some running species got out of control.
I also have a bamboo garden/farm that my wife and I planted about fifteen years ago with Dentrocalmus Asper and Guadua Angustifolia. We are currently building our house from it. All the best from Panama.
Thanks for the information! Is your bamboo larger than mine?
Thanks for the info on the different types of bamboo. Ppl always say its invasive, but I want a barrier of it anyway, so your info helped.
@@growproteas1148Hey there don't know why I didn't see your reply earlier. To answer your question, our Guadua is a little smaller in general but our Asper is quite a bit bigger with diameters over eight inches at the base and heights over sixty feet. Both are species are still maturing so there's likely more to come.
@@jimhood1202 thanks
Bamboos are awesome and you're got an amazing garden! 👍👍👍
thanks so much - new sprouts coming up now!
OH my Gosh! That bamboo is stunning! So beautiful.
thanks so much - it's really crackling with a storm today..
Super cool. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
That looks super. One plant done well . Good gardening.
Wow, that bamboo garden is AMAZING. I just started my bamboo garden last year. I'm excited to see it progress, I keep going out to check for new sprouts....lol.
Good... it grows like a weed... soon you will have plenty
Lots of usefulness you can make from that bamboo.
I liked that first part
I want my yard to look like yours!!!!!!!!🙏
Thanks!
I want a bamboo garden like this, it's nice.
thanks so much ... yes i love this bamboo grove
Have you ever thought about cutting some of it down to make some awesome Asian style furniture?? It’s so versatile and there’s some REALLY cool tutorials on how to make pieces that fit right into each other without a ton of nails or really anything extra!
Great video!
thanks - yes i have - but woodworking is not something I'm good at...
This sounds interesting. Could you possibly share some recommendations of channels where they demonstrate how to make such furniture?
This is exactly what i want to create. With a collection of different kinds of bamboo like black bamboo and knotted bamboo. . . .
You can build structures and furniture. . .
Im sure you have a LOT of people wanting your grass. . .
yes - people want this bamboo!
Essa pequena floresta tem uma atmosfera maravilhosa!🥰👏💖
thanks!!!
If you polish them and add a varnish to it (then cover the bottom with nice polished pebbles), they look great arrange in the bedroom, like a pseudo forest.
I have Seabreeze, Hawaiian gold, angel mist, b. Lako, d. Asper betung hitam and dwarf Buddha on my property atm. Young grow (
Awsome Bamboo Farm, i never saw beautiful Bamboos so big, thick, clean, tall i mean everything in bamboo.
Thank you ! I love it every day..
Grabi ang ganda
My rear neighbor's bamboo grew up a 50 foot wooded hillside in two years after I removed a large maple to get light for a back yard garden. In year one I found a 2 foot rhizome growing straight out of the side of a compost pile and the pile was 5 foot across and another 3 ft from the fence! Every year since we've battled to stop it. 2 years ago I dug a square foot trench across the back of my property and it seems to have worked well enough that the bamboo decided to just go around us... Except for a 2 foot sprout I found near the hugle-bed a month ago that grew from a cut tip this was a peaceful year. Glad I got it out before it reached the hugle-bed which I really don't want to tear up. The trench may not work forever but it lets you see what is coming
wow - yes bamboo can take over!
damn you couldve used that tree to tap and make maple syrup :/
That was magic good on both of you,,,
I enjoyed watching this as I am interested in growing bamboo
thanks- most nurseries sell bamboo
Thank you sowing us your beautiful bamboos,Im also a big bamboo fan :))
Thanks!
so beautiful, you own your paradise sir
thank you so much - yes it is paradise in my own yard...
Greetings from Fiji 🇫🇯 if you are able to collect cow manure spread it between your bamboo... you may easily get to five inches and even 7 inches. Here in the paddocks with bamboo and where cows lie and dump, bamboo are eight inches to a foot in diameter.
thanks for the tip - i will give it a try
Very beauty bamboo garden. Congratulations from Brasil.
thanks!
4.7 is sucha old spirit, very wise
Love your property. Thank you for the video.
thanks! gotta cut some old bamboo out today..
Beautiful Bamboo Garden!
When you see those bamboo shoots sticking out about a foot or two foot high, cut them off and clean them off of dirts and bacteria and debris. Peels them off till you get to the soft edible part. Chops them into slices or shredded mini French fries sizes. Pour them onto the frying pan with some ingredients for cooking. Once they're well cooked and ready for serving. They're very tasty 😋. Some bamboo shoots require to be put in jar for a couple days to get soften before cooking.
Thanks
Nice video and bamboo grove!
Thanks so much!
I love bamboo shoots
I have Vivax, Moso, Madake & Henon in the yard, all about 20 years inground. What you have here looks like Henon to me. Yours is a bit larger in diameter than mine in Metro Atlanta, but bamboo is known to vary somewhat depending on local growing conditions (the Anderson, SC Moso at the Silverbrook Cemetery comes to mind). Somebody mentioned Vivax above, but that would have much thinner culm walls. Your culms dont seem to get split easily and show wind/storm damage. Vivax would have a good amount of split culms in the grove and would look much more unkempt. It would also not get the ghostly grayish-white color after the 2nd year. My money is on Henon being what you have, 98% confidence from video. Oh, and yes, Sawzall is the only way to go with bamboo!
thanks - my bamboo does not have that grey color - is stays more green. - also i have a smaller grove of Henon on my property that looks different - clearly grey vs the bamboo in the video and also smaller diameter . possibly phyllostachys bambusoides??
Nice.
thank you!
My future timber stand at the homestead
Your videos are very good, thank you for sharing
thanks so much!
Beautiful I love bamboo plants.
Thanks so much...I love it every day
That bamboo looks like an Iron Bamboo!
turns out to be Vivax
Dang, this should be an ad for the pruning blade. Bamboo is very hard to cut yet alone relatively cleanly and quickly.
thanks!
Yes, your bamboo garden is beautiful. I just ordered 5 Taiwan giant bamboo Dendrocalamus latiflorus for my garden. It is clumping so hopefully it will be easier to keep tidy. Thanks for your video. It is a source of inspiration.
Thanks...I love my garden every day...
I've been growing my bamboo for about 3 years. Now, I wish I had a larger property so that I could really let it run. I have 2 small groves of phyllostachys nigra, a section of phyllostachys decora, some bambusa multiplex Alphose Karr, Nepalese Blue, and I just planted some oldhamii.
Congratulations on all the different species
Such a beauty
Wish I could came here 😭😭
thanks!
Just beautiful what you have in it. Would love to have some myself.
thanks so much - many nurseries sell bamboo to plant
Your bamboo is awesome. My Mexican weeping bamboo is blooming which is a bummer.
So it will die back after blooming?
@@growproteas1148 my blue bamboo did after it bloom. So I think it will too unfortunately
Your bamboos are beautiful
thanks so much!
Good vaery good
Probably Moso. It's a running type depending on where you are located will dictate the ultimate size.
hope you are right as henon is going to seed across the county.
I also wouldn't wait for the bamboo to die to remove them. Purely for the purpose of looking beautiful, I remove the older culms that are no longer pretty and green. Thinning out the herd (so to speak) also allows for the night lighting to penetrate the grove better. But this is really a personal preference. I prefer to be able to "walk" through a grove.
Thanks
This looks amazing! brilliant garden. I also have a size-able bamboo garden, but with much thinner canes (only about 5cm in diameter). I found the bamboo in a forest, were someone just dumped it after removing it from their garden. The forst, now 10 years later is full with bamboo, which looks great.
that is awesome..
Beautiful!
Thanks!
Wow 4'5 inches that is HUGE!
8:05 that really is big and thick
Thanks
You should get in touch with a timber company. Lots of woodworking projects go great with bamboo. They might be able to help you manage it, even pay you for the timber.
thanks!
Your wife is funny when she shakes the tree lol😂
Damn … I would like to have a bamboo like that too, I'm totally jealous🥺❤️😂
thanks... I really enjoy it every day!
Great video, thanks for sharing
Thanks so much!
Amazing
thanks!!!
I would love to have some
thanks!
I have 2 runners in my yard planted next to my fence, with a busy street on the other side. I planted them in two half metal barrels cut from one 50 gallon metal from. .. salvaged from a company making soaps and such.. so no toxic chemicals.
One is doing good the other looked like it was dying, but I think that leaves are growing back on the poles.. I do not know if it disliked the extreme cold this last winter. So I’ll be watching it to see how it does.
Snd my one clumping variety is doing well… I’m allowing a clematis to grow up through it.. seems to be working well.
Thanks for your video! I love your forest!!!
Thanks so much...good luck...
Amazing 😊
thanks so much!
God bless bamboo
Ha ha... thanks
Those are natural treasures!
Thanks so much... I love them every day
I would love to grow this bamboo in Norway. I have so many projects to do where i could utilize it.
might be too cold in Norway
Just Awesome, Thank you
thanks... good luck with your bamboo!
P. Vivax, for sure. A great bamboo.
Thanks... that is my conclusion also.
Beautiful
thanks!
Great!
JUST how i like it👍
Beautiful bamboo 👍
thanks!
I agree too, its Vivax. Moso has tiny leaves, not Moso.
when I was in NC, Hennon in a mature stand had a pyramid shape like pines from far. they looked alot more grey then that, The Vivax's I've seen there was shaped similar but the top droops from being heavy with leaves. I could be wrong and I'm no expert, I just love the plant.
Thanks for the opinion... vivax seems likely...
lowkey if u had a longer video of just shakin babmboo i would be livin een lighter lollll i lov itttttt
I want to build a house out of bamboo this size, 4 inches and up. I need a video on bamboo joinery. I have made simple things like a ladder and it lasted a few years. I had to plug the ends of the steps with pine wood to have something to screw into and did drill pilot holes in everything. The Japanese are masters of joinery.
cool - yes bamboo has many uses and grows so fast!
Beautiful ❤
Thanks!
10 inches a day! So cool!!
yes !
Amazing, and what you can build from it. You increase the stability of bamboo to more than 100 years by putting the pieces chosen to build a house to a specific liquid as done by IBUKU , Ms Elona Hardy.
thanks!
Yep I'm planting these all in my back yard
Vivax