Whether this is your first year tending a garden or your bamboo garden is flourishing, it’s important to remember that caring for your garden goes beyond just planting the seeds. By being tactical in pruning, you can increase the health and beauty of all the plants in your garden, whether they be flower, bamboo or vegetable!
Looking above the ground, there are several ways to prune bamboo. When determining your pruning pattern, it’s important to keep in mind the function that bamboo plants serve in yourgarden. Take a moment to step back and envision your garden as you would like it to appear. Mark problem culms first and take another step back to see how their removal will affect your aesthetics.
If you are using it as a bamboo screen, don’t sacrifice privacy to remove canes. If a cane still has some foliage, leave it be until the next year. For older culms, remove new shoots that have a larger diameter than the current culms. Once removed, newer growth will be smaller in diameter.
If the bamboo is lining a walkway in your garden, trim the lower limbs to remove a tripping hazard. Trimming the lower parts of the bamboo is often referred to as “limbing” bamboo or “legging up.” Once cut, the lower limbs will not grow again and if done properly, will give your walkway a very stately appearance.
Thankfully, bamboo is a low maintenance plant and usually only needs pruned, limbed or topped once a year (usually in the spring or summer) with only minor trimming required in between. You will only need garden shears and/or shovel and spade and a little sweat to keep your bamboo garden healthy and beautiful!
Looking above the ground, there are several ways to prune bamboo. When determining your pruning pattern, it’s important to keep in mind the function that bamboo plants serve in yourgarden. Take a moment to step back and envision your garden as you would like it to appear. Mark problem culms first and take another step back to see how their removal will affect your aesthetics.
If you are using it as a bamboo screen, don’t sacrifice privacy to remove canes. If a cane still has some foliage, leave it be until the next year. For older culms, remove new shoots that have a larger diameter than the current culms. Once removed, newer growth will be smaller in diameter.
If the bamboo is lining a walkway in your garden, trim the lower limbs to remove a tripping hazard. Trimming the lower parts of the bamboo is often referred to as “limbing” bamboo or “legging up.” Once cut, the lower limbs will not grow again and if done properly, will give your walkway a very stately appearance.
Thankfully, bamboo is a low maintenance plant and usually only needs pruned, limbed or topped once a year (usually in the spring or summer) with only minor trimming required in between. You will only need garden shears and/or shovel and spade and a little sweat to keep your bamboo garden healthy and beautiful!
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