Help Me Find Bamboo Seeds/or Growing Advice?

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am keen to grow bamboo, and am growing it in a large container. need to use it as a screen between myself and my neighbours (upto 7ft or so). has anyone grown this before from seed? i'm asking this coz buying the plants are so exhortionate! i'm quite keen on the black bamboo, some reddish stemmed ones and an incense smelling one.. anyone with any general advice? thanks!:beer:
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If you well manure the ground they grow like crazy.
Go with a clump forming variety otherwise will spread everywhere.
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If you live anywhere near southampton and fancy digging out some bits to get you going let me know.
Ours consisted of 5 stems a foot or so high when we put them in 4 years ago and now they are 12-15 foot with 100s of fantastic black stems.
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the black bamboo I've seen is the cheapest so far and that is in B&Q at £14 or something. I may just wait till the end of season, and see what I'll find in the clearance section... here's hoping:beer:. I've looked at some bamboo sites online and I've seen some real beauties on there - one curious one is incense bamboo
Phyllostachys atrovaginata
The Incense Bamboo. Quick, thick culmed bamboos which tapers in at the top making it appear shorter. Lush green culms pale to a creamy matt green when mature. Occasional red tints on the sunny side. Grows well in wetter conditions and has a sandlewood like scent. grows to 6m when mature.
Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Lama Tempel'
Rare. Similar to aureosulcata f. aureocaulis but a richer yellow with sporadic green striping. A very stocky habit with plenty of leaf at the top and canes visible below. Sun, shade or moonlight, this plant will always glow. Occasionally kinky zig zagged canes. Grows to 3-4m when mature. The 3L are short and juvenile....
ooh, don't you just love 'em!! l adore plants, they're my life:D:D:D
ps. ukjoel: i would love to swap with you/or pay you if you don't mind sending me a little plant. PM me if you're interested. I grow all my veg/and some flowers from seed, and always have plenty spare in spring. or seedswap:D . i know, I am desperate!:rotfl:
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i hope ive helped a bit, good luck
thanks for the tip! i've not had any success with my wanted posts from my local freegle group, altho' plenty of my offering plants to plenty of ppl (about 6 this yr, and coz i got carried away with the idea of giving plants, i gave more than they had asked!)
katiel: hmm, I've ordered a load of bulbs from JParkers last yr, and they came thru' really well, altho' it was my first order.. I'm tempted by the cheapness of the bamboo, so i'll think on it.. thanks!:beer: