The Guinea Fowl like sitting around in front of the bamboo and soaking up the Sun. This bamboo is a running Phyllostachys and is nicknamed Spectacular Bamboo.
Tag Archives: Bamboo
Bamboo Lava
Cut down some bamboo culms that were about dead. Later I saw them looking like mini volcanoes with lava.
Tan Bamboo
Bamboo is not evergreen in my climate. It is different from evergreen trees and deciduous trees, holding onto tan leaves into Spring.
Phyllostachys Frost
The bamboo had a lot of frost on them. This plant is Phyllostachys viridis.
November Snow
It hasn’t been very cold this fall yet, but now that has changed with some snow. Bamboo was bent down to the ground with the heavy snow. A Paulownia tree looks like a bunch of cold fingers. Bigfoot Willow Hybrid trees shrugged off the snow. The snow did start to melt and a petunia kept […]
Covered In Ice
Freezing Rain can happen in the winter and can damage a lot when glazing everything with ice. The Green Ash tree(Fraxinus) split from the weight of the ice and hit the chicken shed. The icy trees waiting for the Sun’s warmth to melt the ice off them. Evergreens really capture a lot of the freezing […]
Bamboo Snow
The green leaves of bamboo mix good with the early snowfall.
Green Groove Bamboo
I am growing some bamboo in the backyard that has the common name of Green Groove Bamboo. It is also called Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘Spectabilis’.
Moment of Ice
Freezing rain gives its own beauty to the landscape and tests the strength of plants. Big bamboo leaf glazed in ice. Some fast growing trees like the Bigfoot Willow resistant ice damage.
Bamboo Rhizome View
It can be difficult to see what bamboo rhizomes do when below the ground. Planting some in plastic bags has given me a closeup view of their vagabond existence.