Bambusa Textilis Gracilis Is A Beautiful Landscape Quality Clumping Bamboo

Bambusa Textilis Gracilis or graceful bamboo, is one of the top landscape bamboo year after year. Graceful bamboo gets its name from its long,slender graceful leaves,that cover the clump.

Expect a midsized bamboo, that will grow to an overall height of 25 to 30 feet after 3 to 5 years. Gracilis is a well behaved clumping bamboo, that will grow no wider than 5 to 6 feet diameter, with cane diameter maxing out at about 1 inch. Gracilis can also be called by its common name slender weavers bamboo, because it has slender canes that are very practical for craft work.

Within minimum temperature of around 15°F, Bambusa Textilis Gracilis or slender weavers bamboo works as a great, attractive landscape bamboo throughout zones nine and 10, and into zone eight. We have reports of gracilis successfully growing from Key West Florida, to Oklahoma City Oklahoma, proving that it can survive quite a range of temperatures.

Many property owners are choosing graceful bamboo as a replacement for their problematic or deteriorating hedges. In South Florida there is a terrible problem with a ficus whitefly that is destroying all ficus hedges in the area indiscriminately. Many homeowners have sprayed thousands of dollars of toxic chemicals around their landscapes and homes in an effort to combat this fearsome predator. Many other homeowners have chosen to stop fighting mother nature, and worked with her by removing the ficus and installing a pest resistant hedge of gracilis bamboo. Within 3 to 5 years they will have an even more beautiful privacy hedge, with a tropical exotic look that ficus just cannot match.

Graceful bamboo is one of our most popular bamboo plants for sale and can be contained at any height, simply by dating the cane parallel to the ground and cutting it at whatever desired length you choose. This allows one to keep graceful bamboo at any height you choose. One customer keeps a 12 foot hedge of graceful bamboo in a gated,deed restricted community,and it is the talk of the neighborhood.

In a pot graceful bamboo will perform quite well, if given enough soil and sunlight. Gracilis graceful bamboo requires highlight or full Sun, and is recommended as an outdoor plant. We do have adventurous growers who have success growing this plant indoors in atrium area, but the key is high light and full Sun. as with all bamboo plants we recommend planting in the largest pot you can handle. 15 gallon to 30 young smart pots ( fabric reusable grow bags) make great movable containers for bamboo, and fit nicely inside a one half wine barrel available at most garden centers.

Gracilis Bamboo is one of our many bamboo plants for sale and is available in 3 gallon (15 pound root clump) starter size for $24.95. Depending on where you live you might try out new site supremegrowers.com where we have actual UPS shipping rates instead of flat rate shipping. It can save a couple bucks in some cases over the flat rates on Bambooplantsonline.com or greenthumbpalms.com

Here are links to the bamboo plants for sale on both sites. They are both great places to buy from.

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Gracilis from www.bambooplantsonline.com $24.95 $10/$20 Flat IN/OUT State Shipping

Types Of Green Bamboo Plants For Sale

When it comes to bamboo there are over 1500 different named cultivars, ranging in size from 6 inches to over 100 feet in overall height. It is known that bamboo comes in all sorts of colors including yellow, blue and red, but the most popular color of bamboo plants for sale in the United States is green. There are large thick green timber bamboo for sale like tropical timber bamboo which starts at $15 for 3 gallon pot. The bamboo plants for sale at the $15 price range are quite tropical and easy to propagate, therefore quite inexpensive. The larger green bamboo plants for sale like Oldhamii timber bamboo, are a little more difficult to propagate, hence they are a little bit higher priced at $25 each for a 3 gallon pot. The reason some bamboo plants like Chungii blue are more expensive, have to do with their difficulty of propagation. Some plants are very difficult to propagate, therefore they are more expensive bamboo plants to sell.

There are so many popular great green bamboo plants for sale, but one of my favorites is bambusa textilis gracilis or graceful bamboo. Graceful bamboo plants get their name from their long slender green foliage, which gives a graceful appearance. It is quickly becoming a popular replacement for the high maintenance Areca palms which were so popular in Florida 20 and 30 years ago, but now had become a maintenance nightmare for many homeowners.

Seabreeze bamboo is one of our most popular bamboo plants for sale year after year. This is due to the amazing amount of foliage that Seabreeze bamboo carries within it canopy. This dense canopy of foliage provides the ideal privacy screen for any area where temperatures do not dip below the need to high teens. Seabreeze bamboo is a great privacy screen or living wall.

These green varieties are some of our most popular bamboo plants for sale for warmer areas like USDA zones 9 and 10.if you’re looking for a green bamboo for much colder climates down to zone 5, you should check out the Fargesia varieties, which have a minimum temperature of -15°F, and can be grown throughout the United States.

As always periodically check both the bamboo plants online.com website as well as the supreme growers.com website for weekly deals on one-of-a-kind and clearance items. We sometimes have other items that either just came in or have quantities too small to list online, so don’t be afraid to pick up the phone and call, or send in e-mail to Scott@greenthumbpalms.com to get some professional advice on your next bamboo selection.

Please remember that bamboo and every other plant on this Earth has been growing beautifully long before the invention of petroleum fertilizers and chemicals. If you are interested in learning how to grow your plants and bamboo with nature and without harmful chemicals then I invite you to check out my www.supremegrowers.com website and blog.

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Black bamboo has several clumping varieties, but none is more sought after than Black Lako or Timor black bamboo.This is a tropical bamboo and does not do well in climates that have temps dip below 30F. It is  a plant for zone 10 and above. Black Lako grows well in S. Florida, south of Palm Beach, but has real problems with the cold any further north. We get lots of people who want to try growing Bambusa Lako Timor Black Bamboo in Zone 9 across the state and although you are welcome to give it a try, but it is usually a disappointing  endeavour. It is my opinion that if you are in zone 9 or below if you you are better off skipping the Bambusa Lako timor black bamboo and choosing something more cold hardy. There are cold hardy blue bamboo varieties like Tropical Blue Chungii and Yellow varieties like Asian Lemon Bamboo, each very beautiful and each much more cold tolerant than the black lako timor black bamboo. Unfortunately none of the other clumping black varieties are cold hardy below 30f. But the good news is that if you live in an area where temps don’t dip below 30F, you should be fine to grow this beautiful bamboo. Black Bamboo Lako tropical timber bamboo is spectacular shiny black bamboo that’s color resembles that of an eggplant. it has shiny black culms and looks quite different from its Java Black G Atroviolacia cousin. Java black has a flat mat black finish and contrasting white nodal bands. The black Lako timor black bamboo grows to 55 feet and when compared to the 70 feet that the g.atroviolacia grows is a better choice for most landscapes. Black Lako is available at a special price of $39.95 by clicking here.

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Can You Plant Bamboo In Fall And Into Winter?

That answer depends on where you live. If you live where it does not freeze much, like Florida, Texas and Louisiana you absolutely CAN grow bamboo all fall and winter long. Here is the long and short of it: Bamboo continues to grow all winter, but not above ground, all fall and winter bamboo plants grow their roots or rhizome mass below ground. I have seen a 3 gallon Seabreeze bambusa Malingensis grow from 3 gallon size to 10 gallon size within 4 months from November til March! Then that March each clump produced between 6-11 new shoots of bamboo, some over 10 foot tall!

Fall and Winter are actually really great times to plant bamboo as it gives lots of time for roots to take hold and the rhizome mass to develop and expand. This way the plant has a sturdy and well rooted anchor when it starts to shoot the next summer.

Bamboo Shoots from Summer to Fall and then expands its root mass from Fall to Spring. Planting Bamboo in the fall and winter assures that the new clump will be able to support new shoots come spring.

You should feed and water your bamboo through the fall and winter. I use a 1 year slow release bamboo special fertilizer so I am delivering nutrition all year round. Some people choose to not fertilize in winter. In Zone 9 or above I have seen benefits from fertilizing bamboo through the fall and winter, and year round into spring and summer. This is why I place such a high value in the 1 year slow release 13-3-13 Bamboo Special we sell. It is nice to fertilize once a year and have constant nutrition delivered Year round.

Anyway I just wanted to drop a quick line about planting bamboo late into the season, because bamboo is not like other plants. We plant bamboo starters and they take a few months to get going. Why not get them acclimated to their new home and rooted in well before the stress of the growing and shooting season is upon them. Just ask my customers, I was as surprised as anyone to learn that December and January are huge months for people buying bamboo. Who would have thunk it?

Happy Gardening

Scott

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