Featuring brightly striped canes of yellow and green this bamboo makes an excellent centerpiece and conversation piece not to mention an amazingly beautiful hedge or screen.
Alphonse karr bamboo growth rate.
Garden style asian zen tropical.
Probably the best looking of the hedging bamboos al karr bamboo always attracts attention.
This is mainly due to the plant s great adaptability versatility and beautiful attributes.
With water fertilizer and no control the plant may reach 55 feet.
This cultivar is shorter and more upright than the common hedging bamboo and it always looks good even in melbourne s winter.
Drought tolerant once established it can survive almost any condition even high winds and sea salt.
Use a balanced slow release 10 10 10 product during its first year of growth.
Growth rate is fast reaching around 3m in a growing season depending on conditions.
New shoots are pink and they age to yellow.
Fertilize outdoor planted alphonse karr bamboo in early spring when new shoots appear.
Reasonably frost tolerant slender 2 3cm and a nice yellow colour.
Bambusa multiplex alphonse karr alphonse karr bamboo clumping bamboo growing to a height of 15 to 35 feet controlled height of 8 10 ft.
It has babies that are taller that has babies that are taller.
Hardy to 5 and easy to grow green stems of these bamboos may reach 25 feet in dry conditions with little feeding and where rhizomes are contained.
The culms of this clumper are yellow with irregular green striping and quite often show a pinkish rose blush in the younger culms.
Bambusa multiplex alphonse karr is a clumping bamboo that can grow 15 to 35 feet in height with a maximum culm diameter of 1 inches and will tolerate temperatures down to 12ºf.
Culms are yellow striped with green and reach a diameter of about 1 2 to 1.
Pinkish shoots become green striped yellow culms.
Alphonse karr is commonly considered a collector s bamboo.
Branches from base of plant to top creating a dense screen.
Clumping bamboo fast growing pet friendly.
The intriguing aspect is that each year s growth emerges and grows to it complete height in 60 90 days.
Average landscape size fast growing.
Bamboo grows a little different than most plants.
Every generation should be taller that the previous year s shoots.
The colour deepens with age.