Name
Chusquea gigantea
About
Chusquea gigantea is tall, upright and bold. It can reach 16m, but usually 10m in the UK. Best used as a specimin plant so you can see it in its full glory. If you have the space you will not be sorry for adding this big, beautiful bamboo to your garden.
What you get
You will receive a 5ltr pot.
Planting and Care
Position in full sun or semi shade and plant with the addition of some organic matter Water in well, and do not let the plant dry out. This is not really a plant for a pot, instead plant it in your garden where it has some room. The best food a bamboo can have is its own dead leaves and culm sheaths, so leave them to mulch the base of the plant.
Soil
Any reasonable soil is ok, add organic matter to help the bamboo establish.
Height and Spread
This Bamboo can reach 40ft/10m in height, it is clump forming and should spread about 3m in ten years.
Desert To Jungle is a small unique specialist exotic plant nursery based within Somerset, only 5mins from junction 25 of the M5. The plant centre is based around a victorian walled garden, which we have started to plant as a jungle. Visiting us is different to most plant centres and is an adventure. The nursery is run by Rob Gudge who started the business 10 yrs ago . We are extremely Passionate about exotic gardening. We are always available on the phone or in person to provide care and protection advice we can also give help deigning a new exotic bed or even your whole garden. Within our car park is a large exotic border full of some of our favourite exotic plants to help inspire your next exotic scheme.
We have thousands of plants from the normal to outrageous in particular we hold a large variety of Agave's and Succulents with over 80 Varieties of Agave. We also hold the largest selection of Bamboo's within the South West with over 80 Varieties. We have a large variety of Ferns and Tree Ferns with over 50 varieties of ground Ferns, and a large selection of Tree Ferns mainly Dicksonia Antarctica from potter to 10ft tall and having over 100 in stock at anyone time. We also are Proud to have a wide selection of other Dicksonia's and Cyathea's. On the jungle side of things we have many types and sizes of Banana and a large collection of Canna's with up to 30 varieties of virus free plants. We Also stock over 25 varieties of Ginger. We have a wide variety of Palm trees from small to large with over 20 varieties available.
We attend most of the large RHS Garden shows and can bring along plants for you to collect if requested.
We hold a large variety of unusual trees and shrubs from small to specimen in size, we also do a lot of the more common varieties. We also have a large range of herbaceous, exotic annuals and grasses. Come and visit us to find that rare unusual plant you have always been looking for. We hold a huge range of plants and are unable to list them all, if your looking for something specific then please ring to enquire as we have many others but some only in small numbers. We have specimen plants that can be delivered locally and if you are further a field then please phone for a quote on delivery.
The rest of the Team... as well as our human staff, we have a team of animal helpers thats you will meet as you wonder around our goats Esmarelda and Nelson, the cats Desert and Oakley and the dogs Obi and Theo who are always on hand to play with our visitors.
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