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Originally Posted by Twolunger
There's a bamboo nursery in Punta Gorda. I think it's right off Burnt Store Road. I never stopped in since my lot is small and I don't have much room for bamboo. But I heard that they have awesome varieties. Have you ever been there?
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Not that I can recall.
Even with a small lot you could get some pretty impressive clumping types of bamboo that do not spread rapidly, yet still get quite large culms on them.
I've got a few clumping types planted here, one of which is actually getting some size to it since it overwintered very well the past couple of years. If it can reach it's full potential, it will get VERY large, as the guy I bought it from in Tampa had some enormous culms in his back yard.
There are some smaller clumping types in the
Bambusa multiplex family that don't get real big, but will make great visual barriers if you plant the individual plants fairly close together. We have two sections here which haven't hardly spread at all since we put them in the ground around 20 years ago.