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The listing, Beautiful Live Black Bamboo for Your Yard has ended.

Black Bamboo (Phyllostachys Nigra)

I will share some of my Black Bamboo with you. This is a VERY EXPENSIVE plant to buy, but I will dig up some of my rhizomes (the underground stem with roots from which the plants grow) and mail them to you via First Class Mail.

This auction is for 3 black bamboo rhizomes.

Black Bamboo Poles are colored green the first year and turn shiny black the second year. Your plants will produce culms (the canes or stems) that have a smaller diameter the first season, but they will become larger and larger with time. Some of mine are as large around as a tennis ball.

Height: I have two strands of black bamboo of this species that I planted about 20 years ago. The strand in the sun grows to 30+ feet; the one I have in partial shade grows to about 18-22'. This plant makes an excellent privacy screen -- that is how I have used it.

Temperatures and water: They are fine down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit. If you have extended cold winters I would mulch heavily. Hot summers are fine provided they don't stay dry for an extended period of time during their first season. During their first season, they will need to be kept watered more frequently; after that, they will need no extra care -- I never need to water mine, and they were unaffected (other than some leaf damage) through two summers that we had with drought conditions. For the first two weeks after planting, you will need to keep them moist at all times until they get established.

The first picture shows the pretty black canes, and the last is a picture of black bamboo rhizomes.

I will ship these First Class Mail with material to keep them moist. You will need to get them in the ground (and watered) as soon as possible after you receive them.

I'll be glad to answer all questions, and I also
recommend you Google this plant if you are interested.

Shipping will be $7.00 via Paypal

Questions & Comments

These are really neat. I will be watching and maybe bidding. :-)

Mar 22nd, 2010 at 4:10:00 PM PDT by

Great! Honesty they are a bargain -- they run about $50+ elsewhere.:-)

Mar 22nd, 2010 at 4:28:27 PM PDT by

are they slow growing??

Mar 25th, 2010 at 6:50:27 PM PDT by

Once they get established, they are amazingly fast growing (bamboo is in the grass family). But it will take a few years for them to grow large canes, so you'll have plenty of growth the very first year, and then they get larger and larger in diameter every year after that.

Mar 25th, 2010 at 7:00:47 PM PDT by

can these live indoors? potted in a very large pot?

Mar 27th, 2010 at 10:28:56 PM PDT by

Let me put it this way: it CAN survive indoors...for a while... but it won't thrive in those conditions (and I doubt that it would ever turn black). And I know some sellers elsewhere will tell potential buyers that it will live indoors, but honestly I don't recommend it. Now, that said, I'll tell you what WILL work: you can plant it in a VERY large pot and keep it outside MOST of the time, and bring it in on occasion for a few weeks or for parties, etc. Of course, you can try it if want, but I wouldn't want you to end up being disappointed.

Mar 27th, 2010 at 10:46:35 PM PDT by

Thank you for your wonderful reply!!

Mar 27th, 2010 at 11:00:20 PM PDT by

Nice, I had a customer that I worked for that had this in her yard and told me to take what I wanted. I have it planted in a watery area in my yard. It has shown growth the first year now, I love Bamboo.

Mar 28th, 2010 at 1:29:11 PM PDT by

I do, too! When yours gets bigger, you'll find all kinds of neat uses for the canes. Google "bamboo projects" on the internet -- their are so many things one can make with this stuff.:-)

Mar 28th, 2010 at 1:38:20 PM PDT by

I have bamboo all over my house inside also. It's great and anyone bidding on this won't be disappointed.

Mar 28th, 2010 at 4:58:18 PM PDT by

That was a very nice comment, Corkiette.:-)

Mar 28th, 2010 at 5:00:50 PM PDT by

very nice!

Mar 28th, 2010 at 9:07:32 PM PDT by

Thanks!

Mar 28th, 2010 at 9:09:43 PM PDT by

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