Dwarf Buddha Belly Bamboo Hedge

Fargesia dracocephala rufa 6 5 5.

Dwarf buddha belly bamboo hedge.

It has long been choice for creating fast growing barriers screens and privacy hedges between properties. It is also equally at home in tropical island design themes. Makes a great container plant for us but needs to be brought indoors during the winter. It has very similar look to graceful bamboo except its green culms has the added beauty of cream pin stripes.

Mexican weeping otatea acuminata super fine textured fluffy plant with a weepy appearance. Ventricosa but is less hardy. 16 maximum culm diameter. Like most clumping bamboo varieties dwarf buddha belly bamboo is very easy to grow and maintain.

If the temps dip below the minimum temps for just a few hours the bamboo will suffer severe damage. Wamin dwarf buddha belly bamboo bambusa vulgaris wamin an open growth plant with very noticeable bellied canes. It grows 15 to 20 feet. This clumping bamboo is called chinese dwarf but it can actually grow up to 20 or 30 feet tall.

In the landscape it can be used as a clump of vertical poles for a columnar element. The canes hold up thin branches covered in long green leaves up to 12 in. 27f please respect the minimum temperatures. Giant timber bambusa oldhamii grows 40 to 60 feet with large green canes.

The foliage on this bamboo is especially thick and bushy so it makes a pretty good privacy hedge compared to other clumpers. Bambusa vulgaris wamin dwarf buddha belly bamboo is a small sized evergreen bamboo with dark shiny green canes up to 3 in. 2 rufa is the most cold hardy of the clumping. It s a very attractive species and easy to keep contained.

Dwarf buddha belly bamboo bambusa vulgaris wamin can grow 12 15 feet with 3 diameter canes. Click photo for more pictures. With its compact size and unusually shaped canes wamin is an exotic and exciting addition to any landscape. By michelle wishhart bambusa vulgaris wamin commonly called dwarf buddha s belly bamboo is a clumping bamboo cultivar that produces canes lined with swollen nodes that resemble the fat belly of.

Has a more consistent buddha s belly form than b. As one of the most popular ornamental bamboo varieties dwarf buddha s belly features stunning green foliage that doesn t cover the lower half of the culms and showcases the trademark swollen bellies or internodes. Wamin or vulgaris bamboo dwarf buddha belly bamboo. Bambusa vulgaris wamin 16.

It can be used to create a dense privacy screen or living fence. Wide 7 cm adorned with short and swollen lower internodes resembling the fat belly of the buddha. Most importantly it will stunt the bamboos long term growth.