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In the North, with the most cold-tolerant varieties (to -10 degrees), is bamboo deciduous (lose its leaves) in winter, or does it maintain its foliage even in the worst cold?
Are there any drought tolerant bamboos that would allow me to have an inpenetrable thicket? Could they handle a day or two, absolute maximum of four and pehaps five or six per year, of -20?
My dwarf in NY has always kept its leaves. Your question piqued my interest so I went searching and found this:
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The growth cycle of bamboo is some what different than most plants. Rather than dropping its leaves in the fall, as most deciduous plants do, bamboo holds its leaves through the winter. It is not until March or April, when temperatures start to warm and bamboo starts growing again that it loses its leaves. This is a gradual process that takes 4-8 weeks, depending on the variety. As new culms are emerging from the rhizome, older culms will start to shed last years leaves and replace them with new leaves. It is very common to have both older, yellow leaves and newer, green leaves on a culm. In Japan, this is referred to ‘Bamboo autumn’.
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There are some semi-deciduous ones too. Bamboo isn't a tree but is a grass. The nursery where I bought mine this week advised me to use a high quality grass fertilizer. Oh, and lucky bamboo isn't a species of bamboo, it's part of the lily family that is found in rain forests. It's still a neat houseplant.
People in the North need to be careful when buying bamboo, and maybe buying from a reputable bamboo retailer on line is a safer way to go. Running bamboo is easier to propagate (more money to be made) than clumping and more of them are cold hardy, so be careful where they are purchased. Okay that's my PSA for today.
This is my last pic - promise. But for all of you "big babies" out there afraid of the snow - Ms Prada seems to love it. Considering she was a bun in the oven a week ago - she's a brave little girl.
This is my last pic - promise. But for all of you "big babies" out there afraid of the snow - Ms Prada seems to love it. Considering she was a bun in the oven a week ago - she's a brave little girl.
This is my last pic - promise. But for all of you "big babies" out there afraid of the snow - Ms Prada seems to love it. Considering she was a bun in the oven a week ago - she's a brave little girl.
I have a friend in Winston-Salem who has two miniature horses. They live in the house during the worst of the winter, and have coats to put on when they go outside. They are smaller than some of the large dog breeds--so very cute.
This is my last pic - promise. But for all of you "big babies" out there afraid of the snow - Ms Prada seems to love it. Considering she was a bun in the oven a week ago - she's a brave little girl.
I thought this one was a photo of a llama!
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