Bamboo Plantings - Anyone have them?

 I am working on plans for a Japanese style garden and i really like the
Bamboo tree for both the look and the awesome growth rate/screening
potential.

Has anyone on here grown it/growing it now, and if so is it everything
that the suppliers websites would have you believe it is? :)

Thanks in advance.

 

I'm in zone 5 and don't think it will grow here.  Maybe there are
hardier varieties that will.  I was just calling HD, Wal Mart, Big Lots,
and will check Lowe's to price out stakes.  The 8-foot ones are $2
apiece.

I don't have a good place to grow it anyway, even if there is a variety
that is hardy in my zone, and some people consider it a nuisance, but I
think it is neat.

Go to www.gardenweb.com (you will probably have to sign up) and search
on bamboo.  Click on garden forums at the top.  I've read a lot of
different posts about it there, one person wanted to know how to make a
trellis from it, several people have it growing on their property in the
south.  But they don't like references back to usenet or other forums.
I got a post pulled because of that.

 

 May want to look at rec.gardens.bamboo.     I live in zone 5 and have a
black and gold bamboo.  Black is 30 feet tall and gold about 15.   Black
is about 30 years old. If you are about S. Jersey USA write me .  Email
is real  just start with Williamwag. I'll give you some. Takes a few
years to get established.

 Bill

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I wrote you but missed one crucial little detail.  I am nowhere near S.
Jersey USA but the same climate zone.

 
Instead go to http://www.americanbamboo.org/ .

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5