I really enjoyed seeing what others are doing with different kinds of bamboo in their landscapes. I think this contest should really increase the number of hits on your website. I know I will be telling all my bamboo friends to check out the contest pics on your website.
Thanks again,
Ed F.
We have received our final entries to the 2007 Bamboo Headquarters Garden Contest! Due to the popularity of this contest, we plan on sponsoring more online garden contests in the future. If you missed the deadline for this contest, be sure to sign up for our newsletter or subscribe to our RSS feed to be the first to be notified about the next contest! We will be announcing the winner of this contest in approximately one week. All winners will be notified by e-mail before we post them online. Thanks again for sharing all of your great gardens! Be sure to check out the entries again, and share them with your bamboo loving friends!
We have received our final entries to the 2007 Bamboo Headquarters Garden Contest! Due to the popularity of this contest, we plan on sponsoring more online garden contests. If you missed the deadline for this contest, be sure to sign up for our newsletter or subscribe to our RSS feed to be the first to be notified about the next contest! We will be announcing the winner of this contest in approximately one week. All winners will be notified by e-mail before we post them online. Thanks again for sharing all of your great gardens!
The views below are of two sets of five each “Golden” Bamboo trees (the Latin name is Phyllostachys Aurea) planted this past May in two corners of our west facing terrace. Three cedar planters were used in each corner. The rustling bamboo trees transform the ambiance of our midtown terrace.
I started planting bamboo last year in an effort to get rid of all my St. Augustine grass (and crab grass). So far I’ve planted 16 bamboo, 4 Queen palms, some Plumeria, bananas, and other misc. plants. My bamboo is still young, but hopefully within a few years my yard will transform from a square patch of grass to my own private jungle. I still have a long ways to go, but it is a fun project.
Thanks for the cool contest
I have about 30 different species of bamboo which I like to plant around my house in a artistic and decorative manner that is first and foremost pleasing to the eye in the landscape. They also function a great screens from neighbors, and add some shade from the hot Florida sun.
In the center is a large Bambusa tuldoides ‘Ventricosa’ “BUDDHA’S BELLY” enjoying its 6Th summer and giving some shade to the patio furniture and potted flowers. The tall bush with pink flowers on the left is a Crape myrtle.
The tall bamboo on the far left is a Bambusa emeiensis ‘Viridiflavus’. Just 2 years ago it was a one culm, small rhizome transplant. Now enjoying its 3rd summer it just finished putting up 17 new culms in 2007 all at once!
The bamboos on the right, have formed a wall of green, Side by side they include at the far top right, Bambusa ‘Clone X’, Phyllostachys aurea, Bambusa tuldoides “Punting Pole”, and at the bottom far right, (wish I had a wide angle lens!) is the unmistakable, beautiful, feathery, Otatea acuminata Aztecorum “Mexican Weeping” bamboo.
One more from Orlando, Florida. You know you love bamboo when you have a 38 foot tall Bambusa oldhamii to greet you at your front door. Also in front of the tree fern in the foreground is a 18″ not so tall Pogonatherum Paniceum and Variegata.
When we first moved to Placentia, I’ve noticed that the summers can get quite warm and that the backyard was fairly barren. I thought of solving the problem by planting bamboo to create shade so the kids can play anytime in the backyard. It didn’t take a long time to create the “canopy” of bamboo leaves. I’ve also added some tropical banana shrubs and some palm trees. When you enter our backyard, you will get the impression that of a tropical place. I’ve also added some bamboo in the front of the house. A weavers bamboo alongside alfonso karr adds an island- feel to the front of the house. A “dulcis” bamboo in a river bed setting grows on a brick path. The old-hamii is the tallest, followed by the following in order; A bambusa gibba, sea-breeze bamboo and the painted bamboo. There are other bamboos that add depth to the yard.
My garden is not very big so it serves mostly as a view for when we look out our bedroom and living room windows. First i put in a tiny “pond” for small fish with bamboo as a background and framed it with the bigger rocks. Then filled the rest of the space with smaller rocks and the small green plants called “ryuu no hige” or “dragon’s beard”. The small tree over the water is a baby Japanese Pine.
Good morning,
Please see attached few pictures for the contest.
I am passionate about bamboo. Unfortunately my back yard is not that big. The empty space is filled with different types of Bamboo, from golden golden to black bamboo.
Best regards,
Laurent
I took some more pictures of my bamboo garden to add to my entry. I love it when I tell people that I grow bamboo. I usually get 2 responses. “Me too, I just love my Lucky Bamboo” or “Do you have to bring it in for the winter?” Any how it has been doing well for me in Utah of course it doesn’t grow to gigantic proportions here but it does grow here as can be seen by the pictures I have posted here.
A Fagesia nitida seedling that I started this year. Despite what I have read and experienced with other seedlings in this batch this one seems to defy all warnings about not being able to handle high temperatures. It seemed unphased by the 2 weeks plus of 100+ temperatures I had this summer.
My Phyllostachys rubromarginata from what I have read in colder climates this one tends to be a lot more manageable I am containing this one by rhizome pruning it hasn’t traveled far yet but we will have to see what it’s true character is in a few years.
We wanted to walk through our bamboo grove on a daily basis, while leaving and entering our house. We planted Bambusa vulgaris “Vittata” along side the entry and this is the result.
Herbert
This has been about 2 years into a backyard transformation that required the removal of eight large trees that were outgrowing the yard. Yes, I took them all out myself, roots and all. The planter along the wall was replanted with black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra), making an elegant privacy hedge. It should continue to run up near the Australian Tree Fern, being constrained by the 60 mil by 24 inch rhizome barrier I bought from Bamboo Headquarters. Just to the right of the tree fern is a transplanted Bambusa Vulgaris ‘Vittata’ which is now sending up some new culms. It should fill in nicely. At the top of the yard is a row of giant timber bamboo, which serves as a wind break and late afternoon sun shade. The vertical photo shows a potted Mexican Weeping Bamboo in the foreground. Also take note of the ceramic bamboo fountain behind the small fish pond in the ground level corner (Bambusa ceramica fountaina!).
Not shown in the photos are several potted golden bamboo, and a Bambusa glaucescens ‘Alphonse-Karr’.
Thanks for the contest. It’s great to see what other people are doing with their bamboo gardens.
Best regards,
Mike
Dear fellow bambuseros,
I have over thirty-five varieties of bamboo here in my gardens plus many rare aloes and agaves and other succulents. Attached are some pictures of my green Vivax grove which has about two hundred canes. I started this little forest from a single cane in a 15 gallon pot which I stuck in the ground in 1989. Also attached, some pictures of my gold Vivax and a couple other varieties underneath. I also have a giant 40` high Beechy clump and many other kinds which I am now forgetting the names of. I thank Mr. Evans for all the help and advice he has given me over the past 30 years. I certainly appreciate what you guys are doing down there in Vista.
JC
P.S. I also slipped a picture of a Sanguinelli Blood Orange I grew this spring.
My name is Virginia, I am in Upper Montclair New Jersey. Attached is a photo of our Bamboo garden. The photo was taken last summer and the plants have at tripled in density and are much taller. We bought Phyllostachys Nuda. My husband built the shed himself. We love the serenity!
Grand Daughter, Hayley, and her favorite hideout-thanks to Bamboo.
We purchased this Dendro Calamus last year from you and this year is producing these wonderful 3 inch diameter colorful culms like this one! This and several other Bamboo purchased from BHQ wave from atop Paradise Hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles. Thanks for the experience! Annie & Jim
Please view the two photos of our bamboo Alphonse Karr which we purchased in March. They provide the perfect ambiance for our pond and back yard. the bamboo has done spectacularly well in our climate. We planted two in the giant square turquoise pots and the rest along the wall to screen out our neighbor and give us privacy. We have been very happy with the growth to this point, and we’re looking forward to an eventual height of 20 feet or more. Thanks again for the fantastic website and the wonderful specimen plants.
My goal for my bamboo garden is to have the largest bamboo culms, for a particular species, without adding fertilizer, chemicals, or additional water. I just use the Florida Viagra Water that falls from the sky. Here’s some pictures of 2 of my bamboos: Dendrocalamus asper and Bambusa oldhamii.
I’ve always loved bamboo, so when we redid our backyard a few years ago, we planted bambusa multiplex to provide screening from our neighbors and vertical plants in the narrow walkway from our garage to the backyard.
The walkway from our garage to the backyard with Bambusa multiplex - Hedge
Our stand of Bambusa multiplex ‘Midori Green’ as seen through some other plants.
The same Green Alphonse Karr, which is still filling in to screen us from the neighbors.
Two 35ft punting pole bamboo plants are used as a back drop for the waterfall and block view of adjacent property.
In this landscape design we used the timber bamboo for a privacy screen both in the back yard and side yard. It was very effective and the clients loves it.
This is a picture of my youngest daughter hanging out in the family bamboo collection visible are a contained specimen of Phyllostachys aureosucata aureocalis and a Fargesia rufa.
…click to see all of Nate’s garden photos.
My name is John M. I live in Lake Elsinore, Ca. My PHYLLOSTACHYS aurea - Golden/Fishpole is in Pots used as a hedge overseeing a view of the canyon hills. Also used for Privacy from neighbors below.
…click to see all of John’s garden photos.
Black and running Bamboo-purchased from you about (2) years ago. Good stuff-in other words beautiful. Using Bamboo for fencing and back ground to accent many other plants. My friends want starts from the black, I tell them to buy it, although I did give one of my artist friends a 6ft (1 inch diameter) for his art hanging. Thanks, Denver M
This is picture of my garden area, I’ve had the bamboo since last sept., and this years weather has not been to kind on it. received a lot of snow this year and also had a severe ice storm that laid everything over, so as you can see it is doing pretty well. I am located in Garden City KS and hopefully will get my whole area taken over by the bamboo. Thanks Steve R
We live in the Uptown area of New Orleans where houses were built within inches of property lines. The adage “Good fences make good neighbors” defines our neighborhood.
We lost our planting of hollies as well as our fence during hurricane Katrina. The hollies never really did that well in the narrow space we had along the driveway and often had gaps in the foliage where we needed coverage the most.
As our neighbor’s windows look directly into our house we needed something to offer us some badly needed privacy in a hurry. 
Zoning restrictions limit us to a 7 foot fence height but a “living fence” has no restrictions.
We decided to plant Alphonse Karr along the fence in August of 2006 and could not be more pleased with the result. The first picture was taken in September of 2006, the second one the following April, the third in July and the last two on August 1st.
We love this bamboo!
Linda F
…click to see more photos of Linda’s garden.
I installed a plastic 40mil 3ft barrier around a CASTILLON BAMBOO. I also planted a black bamboo in a much bigger are (also surounded by a barrier).
The best way to present the garden is with some before/after photos showing the dramatic growth. All seven species of bamboo were planted in the first few days of March 2007. The final photos are in the last few weeks of July (five months of growth).
Below is the planted pot of f. robusta, and p. nigra ‘henon’ on the right. You can see the f. rufa on the far left:
Same plants in July (5 months of growth):
See the Gianetto’s Bamboo entire Garden here
I have bamboo on three sides of my studio. The image (east side) is bamboo I transplanted from a Collection my Grandmother planted about 100 years Ago. It borders the studio on the East side for about 25 feet in length and creates a wonder canopy of cool. This year it has grown to about 15 feet tall, And 2 inches in diameter. It has been in the ground in it’s current location For three years….
On the image (yard), is a stand of Castilian I purchased from you I guess two years ago. This year it has exploded. The stacked rocks are the work Of my husband, as is the Landscaping.
I have fond memories of a visit to your nursery. Just wish I had more room to plant more bamboo.
I found an image from 2005. This is the bamboo planted, with The barrier. In two years the Building went up and the bamboo Tripled in size. I think the change in the bamboo is remarkable…
Here is a photo of our bamboo garden in our backyard that is about 15 months old now and still growing. We painted our back CMU wall a nice complimentary color and I even stenciled a fern at various locations too.
Bamboo hill by the pool.
This garden is located in La Mesa, California, about an acre planted with 36 species of bamboo, with many clumpers. This portion shows an area about 600 sq. ft., planted 25 years ago; clockwise starting from the top left:
B. vulgaris ‘vittata’ Painted Bamboo, B. tuldoides ‘Ventricosa’ Buddha’s Belly, Ph. nigra Black Bamboo and an O. acuminata ssp. aztecorum “Mexican Weeping” and a new H. asper. This area was designed to create privacy and block off noise from a busy street behind.
Paul and Denise’s “Bamboo Sanctuary” is located in La Mesa, California, at 1000 ft. elevation in the Mt. Helix area.
We landscaped our yard to give us that “jungle, prehistoric look”. You will notice in this photo, that our T-Rex is enjoying a bamboo snack.
My name is John M. I live in Lake Elsinore, Ca. My PHYLLOSTACHYS aurea - Golden/Fishpole is in Pots used as a hedge overseeing a view of the canyon hills. Also used for Privacy from neighbors below.
Note from Bamboo Headquarters: The following is an entry from our 2007 Bamboo Garden Contest. We supplied this entry with its own post because they supplied so many great photos!
This is a picture of my youngest daughter hanging out in the family bamboo collection visible are a contained specimen of Phyllostachys aureosucata aureocalis and a Fargesia rufa.
This is a picture of my youngest daughter with a Fargesia rufa that was purchased last year as a one gallon plant and planted one week after she was born.
This picture shows more of the bamboo garden with Sasaella masumanea albostriata, and Fargesia rufa with hostas and cannas.
A closeup of the Phyllostachys aureosucata aureocalis
A closeup of Sasaella masumanea albostriata.
I currently own 13 species of bamboo not all of them are planted in my bamboo garden. I have been growing bamboo since 2004. I have some growing in my vegetable garden and many of them are growing in pots.