>> culminating
Oh, the pain! The pain! Good one. You got a rhiz out of me.
>> you might want to do some experimentation rather than going going whole hog.
Absolutely. I thought I would "mow" only a small part of one patch and see what happened. Cut an inch or two above ground, or really scalp it?
The only response my bamboo makes to our feeble excuse for a winter is to grow slower.