PAJ53

I have zone envy when it comes to bamboo I wish I could grow a Tropical types here in zone 7 The Temperates types take a long tome to get big if you start with a small affordable plant. I have eaten shoots of Phyllostachys bambusoides, Phyllostachys Muso, Phyllostachys Vivax and Yellow groove that I have growing. The Phyllostachys Bambusoides tasted the best and was the most tinder of the shoots the yellow groove was the toughest and least tasty; I would not consider eating Arundinaria gigantea it is too woody and tought when it comes up. I would like to try growing a chumping type Tropical here but the cost of getting one and losing it has prevented me from trying -Philip