Fargesia scabrida 'Asian Wonder'
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Fargesia scabrida 'Asian Wonder' is a beautiful clump forming bamboo from China with rusty-orange culm sheaths and reddish stems turning to green in the summer. It is an excellent bamboo for a pot, rarely reaching any more than 3.5 metres in height. Happy in most soils and situations, but preferably not a dry, sun-baked spot. Tolerant of shade and makes an excellent specimen plant. Keep well watered until established in the ground; if growing in a pot, keep well watered through the year!
- Eventual Size: up to 3 metres, but can be pruned
- Position: shade to part shade out of cold, drying winds - especially coastal winds
- Foliage : Evergreen
- Habit: Fairly upright/Clump forming/Non-invasive
- Soil: all soils, but avoid waterlogged areas very dry soils will need extra watering
- Common Names: Fargesia Scabrida
Bamboo Care
Before planting it is a good idea to soak the bamboo thoroughly to ensure the rots are well and truly saturated then dig a hole at least twice the size of the root ball add compost then place the bamboo so that the finished soil height will be slightly lower than the top of the root ball. Backfill using your soil mixed 50:50 with good compost. Once planted gently firm down the soil around the base add a top dressing of a good fertilizer, we prefer poultry manure, then mulch with a good 8-10 deep layer of compost. Finally water again to help settle the bamboo. In dry periods it may be necessary to repeat watering regularly, if the bamboo looks dry and the leaves are curling this is a sure sign. After the first season we repeat the mulching and feeding each spring.
Now stand back and enjoy. Don’t expect your bamboo to grow away like a rocket, yes bamboo can grow incredibly fast but most of this happens over a 3 month period which is very generally late May through to early August so if you’ve planted either side of this period I’m afraid you’ll have to wait.
Pruning and Grooming
Bamboo can be very accommodating here. I’ve seen pristine clipped hedges and topiary shaped plantings of both Phllostachys aurea and bissetti showing easy how easy it can be managed. What I like to do though on any large bamboo is to remove all old, thin and spindly canes (or culms as us horticulturists call them) then prune away all the side branches off the remaining culms to a height of between 60cm to 150cm depending on your choice. This in my opinion show bamboos off to there best making them stately specimens.
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Customer Reviews
Vicky K on 19 Apr 2017
Absolutely perfect, just as expected and thriving.
Joe on 12 Aug 2016
Beautiful bamboo, have ordered another one
