Thank you for your replies...it seems like the world is split between those who like bamboo and those who don't. Haha. We have had this bamboo for over eight years, and while it does grow pretty good (when watered daily), it doesn't spread as much as I'd like. With luck, we'll be buying a home in the near future and I'd like to take this bamboo with us (and get more) to put around our acreage as a privacy wall. So the more it grows, the better. Haha.
I'm finding that the nurseries I've contacted don't seem to share my enthusiasm for this type of bamboo. One place never contacted me back, and then I received this from another one today...
"If you want your yard to look a little more spiffy... I'd suggest real bamboo. I see what you have there in rural neighborhoods and river bottoms. If you want that, I suppose I could locate some but it wouldn't be "rooted in", it would freshly dug up. It's always better to buy plants that have had a chance to come back from the shock of transplanting and are beginning to show signs of good health. It wouldn't be bamboo and wouldn't have the status attached with real bamboo. Bamboo is found in the nicer yards and gardens. Bamboo is something you find in yards where people have begun to explore beyond the usual.... You'll find bamboo lovers to be the more intelligent, refined crowd having had the spark to think outside the box. Bamboo is a nice contrast and compliment to other plants. It looks nice mixed in with palms and cycads. Do you need palms and cycads too? If you get real bamboo it will look nicer for one. AND you can select the RIGHT bamboo for your needs and desires. It comes in many colors, black, brown, blue, green, yellow to name a few, with stripes, no stripes, thorns, no thorns, small leaves, big leaves, big stalks or "culms", medium sized culms, or smaller culms. It also comes in a variety of heights from dwarf bamboo which is ground cover to massive 40+ feet tall. Feel free to call me so we can get you some of this fake bamboo or some real bamboo....
Thanks!"
Not sure if I should be offended by that response? Maybe I'm not intelligent or refined enough to want "real" bamboo.
) but none of them know the name of it either. It grows really well with very little water, and every now and then, we can find it in the river bottom. I read that there are two types of bamboo - clumping and running. I'm not sure what kind this is because it spreads easily, but it's in a clump. Haha, big help, I know. Our's is about 8-10 feet high.
