Growing Bamboo in Georgia - Orange County Extension Education ...

Table of Contents
Ode to Bamboo ........................................................................ 2
Acknowledgment ....................................................................... 2
Foreword .............................................................................. 4
Information on Bamboo Farm and Authors ................................................ 4
Characteristics of Bamboo ............................................................... 5
Some Bamboo Terms ................................................................... 5
Keeping Running Bamboo from Spreading ................................................. 6
Ground Preparation for Groves ........................................................... 6
Fertilizing Bamboo ..................................................................... 6
Watering Bamboo ...................................................................... 6
Planting Bamboo ....................................................................... 6
Pruning Bamboo ....................................................................... 6
Bamboo as a Food ...................................................................... 6
Cold Tolerant Bamboo .................................................................. 7
Falling Leaves ......................................................................... 7
Insects and Disease ..................................................................... 7
Propagating Clumping Bamboo .......................................................... 8
Propagating Running Bamboo ........................................................... 9
Digging Single Plants .................................................................. 10
Georgia Recommended Clumping Bamboo ................................................. 11
Georgia Recommended Running Bamboo .................................................. 11
Species of Bamboo
Bambusa dolichomerithalla - ‘Green stripestem’ ...................................... 12
Bambusa multiplex - Hedge Bamboo ................................................ 13
Bambusa multiplex cv ‘Alphonse Karr’ ............................................... 14
Bambusa multiplex cv ‘Fernleaf’ ..................................................... 15
Bambusa multiplex cv ‘Fernleaf stripestem’ ............................................ 15
Bambusa multiplex cv ‘Golden Goddess’ ............................................. 16
Bambusa multiplex ssp ‘Riviereorum’ - Chinese Goddess ............................... 16
Bambusa multiplex cv ‘Silverstripe’ .................................................. 17
Bambusa multiplex cv ‘Tiny Fern’ .................................................... 17
Bambusa multiplex cv ‘Willowy’ .................................................... 18
Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda ................................................... 18
Phyllostachys aurea holochrysa - Golden Golden ...................................... 19
Phyllostachys bambusoides - Giant Japanese Timber Bamboo ........................... 19
Phyllostachys nigra - Black Bamboo ................................................. 20
Phyllostachys nigra ‘Henon’ ........................................................ 20
Phyllostachys rubromarginata - Red Margin Bamboo .................................. 21
Phyllostachys vivax - ‘Vivers Bamboo’ ............................................... 21
Pseudosasa japonica - ‘Arrow Bamboo’ .............................................. 22
Sasa veitchii - Kuma-Zasa ......................................................... 23
Sinobambusa tootsik albostriata .................................................... 23
History of the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens .......................................... 24
Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens Building Inventory and History .......................... 24
SE Chapter of the American Bamboo Society .............................................. 26
Sources of Information ................................................................. 26
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