How do you know its gregarious flowering and not sporadic? I looked up the year and the last one was in 2008, and black bamboo has a 40-60 year flowering period?
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/bamboo-flowering
This guy's black bamboo is also flowering, and he mentioned others are going through it also. :-\
Well he seems quite confident that it might not necessarily die. Phyllostachys nigra being one of the gregarious ones. UK and Europe wide. I will feed it like mad and see if it helps
I will have a look for native willows. I know that it is a common thing to grow for the think branches that people make things with. Might be for another bit though, I have a bamboo fixation!
Quite impressive! I am definitely sold on the willow.
I have a giant bamboo, it is only a baby though. Two years old and just about thigh high with the odd shoot waist high. It's chusquea gigantica I think, apparently the canes when they start properly appearing canon be really think and massively tall like 30, 40 foot.
I like growing shit, it seems you do too. I like the idea of willow also for the dank aspirin bark water you mentioned. Herbal is good
I have had a look, most seem perfectly suited to here. They seem to like damp, wet boggy conditions which is kinda perfect for Scotland. Defo something I will get