Comments on: Lucky Bamboo Height Requirements http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/lucky-bamboo-height-requirements/ the official Flower Shop Network blog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:02:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jamie Jamison Adams http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/lucky-bamboo-height-requirements/comment-page-1/#comment-16552 Jamie Jamison Adams Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:10:08 +0000 http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/?p=3571#comment-16552 Bookmark, Thank you for your comment on the lucky bamboo height requirement post. Lucky bamboo is a dracaena not a true bamboo. Your comment is directed towards true bamboo not lucky bamboo. Lucky bamboo is not an invasive plant and does not have the rhizome structure that true bamboo plants have. So your suggestions don't really apply to lucky bamboo. However for those who have true bamboo, these suggestions could be really beneficial. Bookmark,

Thank you for your comment on the lucky bamboo height requirement post. Lucky bamboo is a dracaena not a true bamboo. Your comment is directed towards true bamboo not lucky bamboo. Lucky bamboo is not an invasive plant and does not have the rhizome structure that true bamboo plants have. So your suggestions don't really apply to lucky bamboo.

However for those who have true bamboo, these suggestions could be really beneficial.

]]> By: bookmark http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/lucky-bamboo-height-requirements/comment-page-1/#comment-16516 bookmark Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:44:12 +0000 http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/?p=3571#comment-16516 I am not really sure how tall would you want your bamboo to grow at home. But you can keep it smaller if you surround the plant or grove it with physical barrier. Concrete and specially-rolled HDPE plastic are the usual materials used. This is placed in a 60-90 cm (2-3 feet) deep ditch around the planting, and angled out at the top to direct the rhizomes to the surface. (This is only possible if the barrier is installed in a straight line.) Strong rhizomes and tools can penetrate plastic barriers with relative ease, so great care must be taken. Barriers usually fail sooner or later, or the bamboo within suffers greatly. Casual observation of many failed barriers has shown bursting of 60 mil HDPE in 5–6 years, and rhizomes diving underneath in as few as 3 years post install. In small areas regular maintenance is the only perfect method of controlling the spreading bamboos. Bamboo in barriers is much more difficult to remove than free-spreading bamboo. Barriers and edging are unnecessary for clump-forming bamboos. Clump-forming bamboos may eventually need to have portions removed if they get too large. I am not really sure how tall would you want your bamboo to grow at home. But you can keep it smaller if you surround the plant or grove it with physical barrier. Concrete and specially-rolled HDPE plastic are the usual materials used. This is placed in a 60-90 cm (2-3 feet) deep ditch around the planting, and angled out at the top to direct the rhizomes to the surface. (This is only possible if the barrier is installed in a straight line.) Strong rhizomes and tools can penetrate plastic barriers with relative ease, so great care must be taken. Barriers usually fail sooner or later, or the bamboo within suffers greatly. Casual observation of many failed barriers has shown bursting of 60 mil HDPE in 5–6 years, and rhizomes diving underneath in as few as 3 years post install. In small areas regular maintenance is the only perfect method of controlling the spreading bamboos. Bamboo in barriers is much more difficult to remove than free-spreading bamboo. Barriers and edging are unnecessary for clump-forming bamboos. Clump-forming bamboos may eventually need to have portions removed if they get too large.

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