FREE: Beautiful Live Black Bamboo for Your Yard

The listing, Beautiful Live Black Bamboo for Your Yard has ended.

This will be the last auction for Black Bamboo this season.

Black Bamboo (Phyllostachys Nigra)

I will share some of my Black Bamboo with you. This is a VERY EXPENSIVE plant to buy, but I will dig up some of my rhizomes (the underground stem with roots from which the plants grow) and mail them to you via First Class Mail.

This auction is for 3 black bamboo rhizomes.

Black Bamboo Poles are colored green the first year and turn shiny black the second year. Your plants will produce culms (the canes or stems) that have a smaller diameter the first season, but they will become larger and larger with time. Some of mine are as large around as a tennis ball.

Height: I have two strands of black bamboo of this species that I planted about 20 years ago. The strand in the sun grows to 30+ feet; the one I have in partial shade grows to about 18-22'. This plant makes an excellent privacy screen -- that is how I have used it.

Temperatures and water: They are fine down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit. If you have extended cold winters I would mulch heavily. Hot summers are fine provided they don't stay dry for an extended period of time during their first season. During their first season, they will need to be kept watered more frequently; after that, they will need no extra care -- I never need to water mine, and they were unaffected (other than some leaf damage) through two summers that we had with drought conditions. For the first two weeks after planting, you will need to keep them moist at all times until they get established.

The first picture shows the pretty black canes, and the last is a picture of black bamboo rhizomes.

I will ship these First Class Mail with material to keep them moist. You will need to get them in the ground (and watered) as soon as possible after you receive them.

I'll be glad to answer all questions, and I also
recommend you Google this plant if you are interested.

Shipping will be $14.00 via Paypal