Tropical Zone Gardening: What to do with bamboo, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Balaitalisai, I have several species/varieties of bamboo, all of them clumping. Most were here when I bought the property about 7 years ago. I've never had to control any of them in that time other than to occasionally kick over a new shoot when walking past. I only cut them when I need a bamboo pole (or sometimes people ask for some).

The best of them is one that forms a very tight clump, new shoots grow back into the clump and branches don't develop below 4 or 5 metres from the ground. It growing about 12 - 14 metres high and looks really nice. The culms never fall over even in strong winds.