Vivax sending up new shoots in February

 

Two new  2" diameter Vivax shoots have just emerged!  Vivax is a large-caned running bamboo and, like all runners, it sends up its new shoots earlier in the season than clumping bamboos.  But in February???  Not normally.  Yet the Vivax in one of our groves already thinks it's spring.  It's so exciting when new shoots emerge.