…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….

…species of bamboo below the Old Kennels. bamboo bamboo bamboo Eight groups of deciduous azaleas go in on the path up from the Kennels to give more late spring colour…

…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…

…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’…

…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 Panda’ atc) Borinda (Fargesia) frigida (syn.frigidorum)KR4059…

…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…

…and cinnarbarinum blandfordiflorum. Anyway nice to know that cinnarbarinum and concatenans are both again flourishing at Caerhays. Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group A young bamboo called Chusquea…

…London after 3 weeks absence. Many Henonis [bamboo] only half grown, Nigra the same, waterlilies well on, no Nitida moving yet. Some of the tree ferns have only lately started,…