…in the rat population eating the bamboo seeds and then spreading plague to Europe. Bamboo flowerings kill pandas and always have been viewed by the Chinese as a bad omen….

…Setting out the 12 newly purchased species of bamboo below the Old Kennels. bamboo bamboo bamboo Eight groups of deciduous azaleas go in on the path up from the Kennels…

…large purple hairs which none of the other features Phyllostachys species shoots seem to have. Anyone know the answer please? bamboo bamboo This is Jaimie’s hybrid between Rhododendron ‘Titness Park’…

…is about double what I was originally told. 2015 – CHW The newish bamboo plantings in Kennel Close have grown so well and look so superb I thought it might…

…the drive and split a magnolia in full leaf. We will send cutting material to Burncoose tomorrow. I promised a review of the newer bamboo species and how they have…

…the clearance of the fallen tree on Lower Rookery Path. clearance The new bamboo species from Whitelea Nursery have arrived and here is the list: bamboo species Fargesia nitida’Jiuzahaigou 1’(‘Red…

…likiangensis There are seven other species/varieties of bamboo in Kennel Close in addition to the five photographed a few days ago. Boring though it probably is to readers I wanted…

…A young bamboo called Chusquea gigantea has decided to flower and die in Kennel Close just when it was getting going. The inflorescences are pretty but short lived before a…

…bulbs moved, nearly all the seed picked, our best year for this last. 1898 – JCW Came from London after 3 weeks absence. Many Henonis [bamboo] only half grown, Nigra…

…is not a bamboo I have taken in before. Growing vigorous new canes now and rather attractive. Phyllostachys aurea ‘Argenteovariegata’ Phyllostachys aurea ‘Argenteovariegata’ Carpinus fangiana is another species which I…

…of a rare bamboo species by Tin Garden has decided to flower and die. I need to look up which one. bamboo A baby rabbit annoys Jaimie while completing the…

…interesting novelty Bamboo bred by Frank Schnupper in Germany and exhibited in public for the first time in the UK at Chelsea. This variety is a real dwarf. It has…

…cleared. They look like Phyllostachys nigra but I do not recollect planting this species here. Bamboo shoots Bamboo shoots Then off to Penvergate. This is the first flowering of Paulownia…

…hardy bamboos. Grows to 6ft or so. Indocalamus tesselatus Indocalamus tesselatus Chusquea culeou – ‘Foxtail Bamboo’ – let us hope it does not seed and die like Chusquea gigantea just…

…hard wood way about. 1898 – JCW No real start in [bamboo] Nitida yet. Many seedlings planted in the new ground, say one third. Everlasting peas open. Put in from…

…in 2009 so has taken 14 years from seed to first flowering. It sits on the site of an old Arundinaria nitida (bamboo) hedge which flowered, seeded and died in…

…and a few early hybrids. Turning cold. 1949 – CW First daffodil out – a wild hybrid by Fastuosa Bamboo. Few Rho var sutchuenense hybrids, a good many Camellias but…

…statement that Phyllostachys nigra ‘Megurochiku’ was very rare in cultivation and, in her view, one of the very best bamboo varieties I thought I had better photograph the canes and…

…top lake Phyllostachys edulis as a young plant in the new bamboo plantation. Phyllostachys edulis Thamnocalamus crassinodus developing well. Thamnocalamus crassinodus Thamnocalamus crassinodus A young Platanus x acerifolia (Platanus x…

…yellow hybrid good by Donkey Shoe. Rho Yellow Hammer nice. Hardly a sign of Decorum or its hybrids. Mag officinalis fell down on 26th behind big Fastuosum Bamboo 51 ½…