How to Grow Giant Bamboo - 5 Tips for Cooler Climates

A massive bamboo with huge cane / culm size is a dream plant for many people and would look right at home growing in any tropical effect, jungle or exotic garden so in today's video I look at planting, feeding, watering and care tips for how to grow a giant bamboo in cooler climates like the UK. I look at the larger varieties I grow, Phyllostachys vivax f. Aureocaulis which is my top recommended big specimen golden bamboo, plain green Vivax, 'Huangwenzhu Inversa' and also Phyllostachys Atrovaginata and Nigra 'Henonis' plus a potential giant Moso timber bamboo for countries like the UK Phyllostachys Parvifolia. I discuss space requirements for larger bamboos, their growing pattern through the year, control methods like rhizome barrier for running and potentially invasive bamboos and how using the correct feeds, soil improvers and fertilisers at the right time can help boost growth and get the biggest canes possible in a shorter time.

The feeds I mention are:
25kg Blood Fish and Bone Feed (Great for your whole tropical garden)
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10kg Tub Blood Fish and Bone Feed
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20kg Chicken Manure Pellets, a great 'slow release' fertiliser for bamboos and other tropical plants
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0:00 Intro
0:33 How I plant bamboos in my tropical garden
1:15 The best big timber bamboo varieties for cooler climates
3:46 Phyllostachys vivax 'Areocaulis' care tips - a giant golden bamboo
6:48 Other giant cold hardy bamboos
9:32 Bamboo Planting Tips & Space Requirements
12:05 Controlling 'invasive' running bamboos with rhizome barrier etc.
13:23 Feeding / Fertilising your bamboo for faster growth
16:37 Soil improving and mulching bamboo for bigger canes
18:37 Watering your giant bamboo plant
20:12 Bamboo growth rates and fast upsizing!

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