bamboo Info

As a man you have always encounters - as a gardener but further, namely those with plants. I arrived a few years ago in a garden, what a beautiful bamboo grew. Wide, unloading, certainly five to six meters high, captivated me this plant extremely extraordinary. It seems that you sometimes for years on plants passes without it really perceive. From this encounter has developed a relationship which has been going on for years. I could not hold back and had a piece of this impressive crop to ask your own garden. The owner looked at me, but warned and said: “That you have to be superior but good if you did it once, so you’ll get him little more away. And also do you do me a lot of work! “Such a warning may be of course a plant in an amorous gardener does not deter finally makes love so blind. The second point I understood until years later.

So now the growing Phyllostachys sp. As he is internationally understandable, since soon eight years in the garden. From a tough piece, for which a plastic bag was good place, becomes now a several meters in diameter plant. The whole year he is green and always in motion, with its thousands of small leaves. With the whole shape he responds to the atmospheric conditions: very quiet rustling, he barely moved in the air, he duck under crackling rain, will disheveled and fro by the wind, which blows around the corner of the house. It may storm, as it pleases, never I found a broken branch. The winter covered him with snow. He offers no resistance to the falling flakes. This bow to him with her weight, until he lies on the ground. But hardly is the snow resumed, the bamboo culms back into their old upright there. A biggest enemy however is: the frost, when the temperatures are below minus 20 degrees Celsius. The aboveground part from freezes, the rhizome is protected in the ground, and with last year is stored force pushes it back out again. The died straws are cut. Until next winter is very cold enough then “baby” bamboos are available to other plants in the garden. In the early summer, when the first warm days the soil has warmed, it is particularly interesting what the bamboo “do”. Between the old culms and spur driving the species even in the close vicinity, making itself felt all sorts of tips, which remarkably rapidly, with small leaf blades as cheerfully waving in the amount aspire. The blade itself, from the rhizome fed from the ground. As thick as the sprout from the ground, will the straw afterwards. The number of nodes of mature bamboo culms then is fixed. Are extraordinarily sensitive young straws at this time: the aborted shoot uppers with the lawn mower or cut off, dies the whole part. Bamboo can be used for botanical breathtakingly fast growing conditions, namely, depending on the type of favorable locations 20 - 40 inches a day. Quite the stalks grow straight up and punctured lanceolate same area of the previously grown shoots. Each year, the new culms grow a little higher, until after about 10 years, their continuing thickness has been reached. If the growth in length completed, the stem begins to branch, leaf and to be in line with the community of straws.

This is of longer duration, 8-10 years old can be a bamboo branch, every year he is driving more side shoots with new leaves. Again, this may be several months old. The change will take place continuously: the plant “cleans” itself. That is why always the ground is with lots of dry leaves and very siliceous covered by cats, birds and children. Well, so each plant has its own species of bamboo will not return. He is really something special for us and may in fact look on its native relatives he belongs to the family of grasses. Precisely this, the truly gigantic growing giant grass can look for the beauty of the known grasses develop, which also includes the grains. The grass flower is peculiar manner as compared to other plants very inconspicuous. One might think that for this family was not important, in this way to express their care. Is even more pronounced when the bamboo: it blooms only in very large distances - some even in thirty years, in different rhythms of 60, 80 or even 120 years. This much to the chagrin of the scholars, which so clearly a plant just after flowering can determine. So there is not yet the desired clarity today. In the flowering plant achieves such a performance that they subsequently dies. Horticulture art can not prevent it, where it happens remains to be hoped that from the very short time germinable seeds develop new plants. Usually we say that “love is through the stomach. It went so well with my in the meantime efficient grown bamboo. With the tension was the summer, the children kept busy looking after the first sprouts, and then her father in the sweat of his view with spades, shovels, pickaxes, hatchet, saw and we can see lopper small pieces of bamboo gets out of the ground. The surprise was great when it was shown that these bamboo also a fairly useful and robust indoor plant provenance. They are replaced in our room the curtains. Other bamboo species found themselves with time. For example, a dwarf bamboo, which is one of the few plants heard what I had in my room. Every day, he greeted me as a front for the underlying morning sky and suggests to his thoughts of some kind.

Bamboo is primarily 40 degrees north and 40 degrees south of the equator to a height of 3000 m at home, but normaly used only in Asia. In the culture of the peoples living there, however, he plays an extraordinarily important role: he is from the life inconceivable. It will be used as building material for houses, for scaffolding, as containers for beverages and food, as raw material for the manufacture of furniture and objects a direction for the field equipment and gardening, as a weapon, as food for animals and humans, as a medicine. Modern materials and techniques can not replace the bamboo. Bamboo products, the strength of steel, but is flexible, easy and still solid, but is formed and tough. It burns bad, but with heat bent and shaped, can be used in fiber direction capillary divided, which then again, many products can be manufactured. The jun gene shoots are an excellent food, the leaves are of cattle (and Panda Bear) estimated. Of the approximately 100 species encountered in Japan are mainly two grown in culture. “Madake” construction and factory equipment, “Moso” for the bamboo shoots. The cultures are carefully maintained and set precise knowledge of the plants provided. The straws are beaten if they are three to five years old - have previously are too soft, too hard afterwards. Bamboo accompanies the people through the whole life.

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Tags: bamboo, dry leaves, family of grass, rhizome

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