Bamboo-lover's House

        This guy is crazy about bamboo.  His entire property is landscaped with bamboo and even his front fence was built of bamboo by local bamboo artist Steve Glassman. 

            His Bambusa dolichoclada and Bambusa vulgaris vittata were planted at the same time close to each other and they clearly demonstrate that the dolichoclada is more vertical than the vulgaris vittata.  I suspect the vulgaris root system is not getting as much water as the dolichoclada because it doesn't look as big and nice as its neighbor. 

          The Bambusa vulgaris vittata is breaking its concrete block planting box - probably because there seems to be no rebar in the concrete block wall. 

          The Semiarundinaria fastuosa is slowly threading itself up into the earth slot alongside his stairway.  But the canes are leafless until they get up into the sun.  (They are growing on the North side of the house)  But - they grow straight as a plum bob, (the camera makes them look a bit curved) and with no inclination to grow toward the light, unlike the Japanese Timber Bamboo, which grows sideways toward the sun. 

  B dolichoclada          Bambusa vulgaris vittata

    Semiarundinaria fastuosa         Japanese Timber Bamboo  

  Mexican Weeping Bamboo