Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
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1. Seed will germinate in 7 - 30 days
2. You can expect flowers in about 50 years
3. Black Bamboo is a clumping bamboo, not a running bamboo.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost
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3. Black Bamboo is a clumping bamboo, not a running bamboo.
I believe Black Bamboo is a running type.
"The common Running Black Bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) is not a bad choice; except that it's invasive," http://www.bamboowholesale.com...
Amazingly, some misinformed sellers still refer to P. nigra as Clumping Bamboo due to its circumstantial growth habits. http://www.shweeashbamboo.com/...
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
My black bamboo has never run anyplace. It does expand at an alarming rate though.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost
President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada
Webmaster: osnnv.org
Wow! I hope you have room for such a tall variety. Running bamboo can be kept under control by faithfully cutting off all unwanted emerging sprouts. They do not grow back - but a new one will pop up in time.
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