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4/24/09

How fast does bamboo grow?

People are always asking us how quickly bamboo grows. Below are photos sent from customers in the Orlando area whose objective was to create a perimeter privacy barrier in front of existing fences. See for yourself how quickly a landscape can change less than a year after planting bamboo.



Green Hedge clumping bamboo (3-gallon size) planted 4' apart in May 2008.



11 months later...where did that fence go?



Same property - another location. Same type of bamboo, same size container planted the same distance apart.



11 months later - after only one growing season - the white fence is beginning to disappear behind a screen of green bamboo.
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2 comments:

  1. Economista5/02/2009 06:19:00 AM

    If I cut a bamboo, It will grow up another in the same place?
    I have a few bamboo and I would like to cut some to make crafts. But I do not want to lose my bamboo garden.
    Thank you

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  2. sherry boas5/18/2009 10:33:00 PM

    once bamboo is cut, that particular cane will not grow anymore but new canes will appear around the perimeter of the existing canes during the following growing season.

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