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Hello everyone, I bought some bamboo plants a month ago and it seems like they are not doing good (see photos). Can anybody tell me what may be wrong?  I water them 2-3 times a week, using regular compost and they are in a very sunny spot. Thank you

I have bamboo (Phyllostachys Nigra), which is growing well (very healthy green lea ves) but its stems are very spindly so when it rains, it ends up laying prostrate on the border and onto the lawn. Ive ended up staking it to keep it upright. If I

Some pots cry out for a simple planting scheme that doesn't detract from their own beauty, for which this arrangement is perfect. The bamboo combines beautifully with the dark brown-bronze leaves of the red hook sedge to form a sleek display

I have succesfully grown Bamboos for the past eight years both in pots and in the ground, Originally started with two good plants last year had fourteen plants. But with the winter we have just had have lost (I think) ten of them only the planted (P

I'm going to put my bamboo in a pot in the ground as a precaution, incase it gets out of control. I'm going to use one of them big rubber buckets. Do I need to put holes in the base for drainage?? Will the roots grow through the holes? If I don

Hi all, I had read another thread aboout a shrivelled and dry bamboo and had wondered what to do with mine which had suffered last year - so Im starting a new thread.... What I am thinking is that since I have spotted two or three new growths

Follow Joe Swift's step-by-step video demonstration to making your own rustic plant supports for climbers, from bamboo canes.all year roundMore on plant supportsCreating a metal obeliskConstructing a hazel trellisMaking a spiral plant support

Hello,  I've just bought some large, contemporary trough planters in which to plant phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo). They measure 98cm(L) x 33cm(D) x 33cm(W) (3 ft x 1ft x 1ft) and have straight sides. However, I'm a little concerned

Hi all, I am very new to gardening as we lived in a flat before. We have moved into a house which the garden needs some tlc when we moved in the bamboo was about 8-10 foot tall I have cut it down to about 2 foot now in preparation to get rid

A metal fence and a concrete path seperate my greenhouse from an ever advancing bamboo. Sold as a dwarf variety, its cuckoo tendancies soon came to light when the main clump grew approx 6m tall, however I was  taken in by the way it swayed so