Bamboo Hedging Plants are fast growing and very dense. In fact using bamboos for hedging provide the ideal attributes when you have a narrow lateral space for planting, yet you need plants for tall evergreen screening, for privacy reasons. In this scenario, there is nothing quite like the luscious stems and foliage of Golden Bamboo, Latin Name: Phyllostachys Aurea.
The golden yellow culms support the delicate fronds of evergreen leaves which rustle and swish in a light breeze. Forging skywards at a swift rate our fabulous specimens come in many different sizes from 1.2 metres right up to a massive 10 metres.
Easily Trimmed – Bamboo Hedges create a lovely entrance gateway
Our mature bamboos for hedging are most popularly used to create instant evergreen screening hedges. For spring planting, we now have in stock Golden Bamboo or Phyllostachys Aurea in varying sizes from 1.8 meters to standard specimens of 10 meters in height. We have special offers on our Golden Bamboos for hedging in various sizes – full details when you click through to the website.
Golden Bamboo or Phyllostachys Aurea is an excellent evergreen hedging plant
Golden Bamboo Phyllostachys Aurea – an excellent example of a bushy clump forming variety of bamboo with green canes becoming golden s the plant matures. Ideal for the UK climate where it is fully hardy.
Black Bamboo Phyllostachys Nigra – a tall and striking bamboo with dramatic black stems and contrasting light green leaves. It’s is easy to maintain and non-invasive or ‘well behaved’ as we like to say.
Bamboos for Hedging – Black Bamboo or Phyllostachys Nigra is striking with dramatic black stems
Both these varieties of bamboo are evergreen, giving continued screening throughout the winter months. All bamboos need watering regularly over the growing months and disliking drying out.
As evergreen screening is one of our specialities here at Paramount Plants, we tend to have screening plants in stock that are mature enough (also meaning large enough) to provide our clients with instant screening or instant privacy wherever necessary. This can transform your garden without having to wait for smaller plants to mature.
One of our bestsellers in this respect is Phyllostachys Aurea (also known as golden bamboo), an attractive, evergreen bamboo with green canes becoming golden as they mature. Phyllostachys Aurea is one of the best performing bamboos for our UK climate. It is a clump forming bamboo and can be easily trimmed to whatever height is required.
Bamboo screening remains very much in vogue with contemporary outdoor screening. Phyllostachys Aurea is often used in themed gardens such Japanese style gardens.
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Westland Magical Garden with thick black stemmed bamboo Phyllostachys Nigra in the background from photos taken at last year’s Chelsea Flower Show
Bamboos for Hedging – Phyllostachys Aurea
