The Subj provides 3 names (reportedly) for the Same CLUMPING Bamboo plant, that interests us.
It may also be known as the "Chinese Bamboo" (as it was in a story about Patience, in a Jewish talk).
For those, who don't know Bamboo (eg, me, only a month or so ago, before we found a Springer book on Bamboos):
- Bamboo: The Plant & its Uses (363 pp, Springer 2015)
…Clumping is a Good attribute of Bamboo… It means much less risk that a bamboo plant with that attribute will "go wild" & wreck havoc in both your yard & those of adjoining properties (= INVASIVE).
Of course, as bamboos are (in general) Not Native to AU, you'll find plenty of [almost] "racist" newspaper articles "willfully ignoring" this (or even most/all) Good Bamboos (Clumping ones, like Subj.).
(Younger readers may not know about AU's past anti-Asian history (go far enough back in AU history & you'll find Asians had lots challenges, for purely racise reasons.), some newspapers use similar tactics
try to boost their circulations, with lotsa unduly negative, "bad news" stories… a good reason to let such 'papers die, IMO, so that more balanced ones can thrive… Apply similar logics, when you're in the market for a Bamboo ;~).
Those of you in or with family or friends in, eg, Sydney will know how Beautiful & Practical this type of bamboo can be:
It's Beautiful, bright-green leaves can & do lift the "COVID'-blues" of working too many days at home, &
Practical, in that it's low-maintenance, and can grow in both colder & tropical places across AU.
Practical also as a more attractive privacy barrier than 2m steel sheets. (I suppose the fence trumps the plant for security, but - if you already have an ugly steel fence - the plant "hides the ugly")
It can grow quite tall, but - if you "top" it - it stops growing upward.
It can be grown in a pot - of min.18" diameter & height - & this might enable repositioning, with change of season or to fill-in any holes in one's privacy barrier.
(Call me biased, but - in the Olde Country - we had no need for tall privacy barriers, on any side. Instead, we'd wave & smile to neighbors, some of whom rewarded our friendliness by planting beautiful kitchen gardens beside our screened-in porch. & - if over-abundace of ready crops risked needing to toss out a few zucchini, cherry tomatos or ears of corn - it was a short walk to our porch to offer us the excess, a perk we did our best to reward, later, eg, when our fruit trees brought us "too many" pares, peaches or apples, all-at-once… but I digress, as I enjoy the memories… ;~)
Care must - I'm told - be exercised when first planting seeds & cuttings (to propagate the plant, without breaking the bank: The larger a plant is when you buy it, the more digits of $$ you may be asked for it.)
So, all that is by way of asking: Who where to buy (or even Import) the Seeds or (locally) Cuttings that will let us "Hide the Ugly" in our backyard?
Thanks for Reading!
PS Are there any online Bamboo Commuities in AU? or even further afield?
Re: Importing seeds for this Non-Invasive plant
There may be ay many as 3 levels of gov't to seek info&/or permission from, to do that:
Quarantine's Biosecurity
Your State's Biosecurity
Local gov't (eg, their arborist?)
A friend in Outback South Australia found that her local council V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W to respond to her inquiry about them… even after a council employee or contractor told her about this very bamboo, that he was enjoying & propagating, to fill his block with… Oy!
Meeting a council member at an unrelated public event, it was suggested that they prefer Native Plants.
It's not always easy to throw-off Racism… even when Beauty in a New Race is at risk… ;~/
https://www.redcloudbamboo.com.au/