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Can anyone recommend a plant, bamboo or similar that will be good at acting as a dappled screen.
Ideally grow 6-8 feet maximum and be fully hardy
thanks in advance
Ideally grow 6-8 feet maximum and be fully hardy
thanks in advance
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Be careful what bamboo you use. Some are thugs and will come up for miles around!Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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thanks, yes i've been reading that they like taking over your garden .... and your neighbours
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There are some that are very graceful and stay in their own little clump though. It's just worth doing a bit of research to get the right one. I've never really checked as I don't grow them, but I agree, a 'tame' one would be good.Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Generally speaking the ones called Phyllostachis are the most 'rampant'. The other main order are Bambusa which tend to be the clumping ones. However, the Phyllostachis aurea (pictured) is very well behaved growing only to about 6 feet maximum after 4 or 5 years and not really spreading in a nasty sense. The friend I got this one from has a large area of his garden full of it but it took him 25 years. The photo is mine 3 years after cutting back, and was only about 3 feet when the picture was taken. It is now (5 years) at it's full 6 feet and has spread from about 2'6" after 3 years to still only about 4 ft now. I would offer to send you a root for postage but if you need a screen I reckon you will need either more than I can supply or a faster spreading one. My only other established Phyllostachis is aureosultacha which is taller and far more delicate so does not make an effective screen.Why didn't Noah just swat those 2 greenflies?
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thanks a lot for the advice, i'll take a trip to a few of my local garden centres this weekend and i may even sound like i know what i'm talking about
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A plant I have always admired but don't have the space is Pampas Grass. I don't know if it's hardy, I assume it is.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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HARDY BM??? It's indestructable! All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
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Hardy as hull Bigmally. Now that is a spreader. We have 4 different types, all young, one (a pink one) hasn't put any plumes out yet, and so far they are a reasonable size. But I am standing by with a small H bomb for a few years time. I am told by members of my local G.C. that once it is big I should literally burn them down. They recover in a couple of years. So not so good for a permanent screen.
Why didn't Noah just swat those 2 greenflies?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
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Make that - almost indestructable. It took me 5 days but I did it!Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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I, with the rest of our village's Britian in Bloom group, will be taking part in a willow weaving course in late March. These will not be living willow sculptures, but I can't wait. I'd love to weave my my own pea and bean obelisks. Pretentious? Moi???Originally posted by BilboWaggins
Last edited by Flummery; 26-02-2010, 05:13 PM.Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Hmm. Only 5 days. Ve vill examine vot vent wrong.Originally posted by Flummery View PostMake that - almost indestructable. It took me 5 days but I did it!
P.S. How long ago? Bet it's back within 5 years.
Why didn't Noah just swat those 2 greenflies?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
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It left a hole in which I could have inhumed a crouch burial! It's now got the compost heaps on. They have been cleared and replaced twice since then. I'm generaly a lazy sort but when I hate a plant so much I am nothing if not thorough!Originally posted by sarraceniac View PostHmm. Only 5 days. Ve vill examine vot vent wrong.
P.S. How long ago? Bet it's back within 5 years.
Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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If you go for something slower growing but less rampant you can always put temporary canes with annual climbers. We had a lovely runner bean screen last year. It wouldn't give you much cover in winter but, depending what you are screening, it tends to be less important then anyway.Comment
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