Bambusa Fargesia “Rufa”

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2019

  Sometimes called ‘fountain bamboo’ it is described as having an ‘arching habit’ ... yours looks right to me 
  
  https://www.yougarden.com/item-p-680087/fountain-bamboo-fargesia-rufa
  
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Marlorena Posts: 8,705

  June 2019

  ..that isn't the Fargesia rufa that I know, but if we assume it's correct, then you could remove some of those weeping canes leaving the more upright ones.. I prefer to see the exposed canes personally..
  ..there are a number of forms of Fargesia,.. I do wonder if some are confused in commerce and what we see in photos is not always the correct plant... e.g. 'Jumbo' looks much like that …
  
  Here's F Rufa in my garden.. although I no longer have it, but this shows its upright form..
  
  ...and in a pot on the right...
  
  
  ...they also grow it as a tall hedge at Alnwick garden in Northumberland... with the canes exposed so there is no weeping habit... very upright... I think mine grew naturally that way, but I might have removed a few lower weeping culms ….
  

  East Anglia, England

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• jamesharcourt Posts: 465

  June 2019

  It looks nice weeping but is covering some other things up in doing so and is also not hiding the fence as I wanted it to.
  
  Might just leave it as it seems to be growing happily.

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