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20-02-2009, 02:41 PM
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| | | Wheres the Panda?
I found this in a local nature reserve. Is it bamboo and what on earth is it doing in this sort of climate and area. Will someone have planted it? 
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20-02-2009, 02:48 PM
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Certainly looks like bamboo and may have been planted deliberately or 'escaped' from a garden. Some species of bamboo are very hardy and will have no trouble at all with the British climate.
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P.s. the panda is sneaking up behind you while you're busy taking the picture!  
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20-02-2009, 05:13 PM
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Definitely a Bamboo - there are several which can be found semi-wild in Britain. The commonest is usually Pseudosasa japonica. |
20-02-2009, 06:55 PM
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We have loads of that growing alongside the river bank up here in Central Scotland so it must be hardy. Now I can put a name to it. Cheers
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20-02-2009, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17  I found this in a local nature reserve. Is it bamboo and what on earth is it doing in this sort of climate and area. Will someone have planted it?
Thanks | In many people's minds "nature reserve" = "dog toilet and place to dump garden waste", I'm afraid.
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20-02-2009, 09:34 PM
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thanks everyone. It really stood out in the skeletons of the other trees. Is it supposed to be evergreen?  |
20-02-2009, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17 thanks everyone. It really stood out in the skeletons of the other trees. Is it supposed to be evergreen? | It's a grass. look at your lawn. Not a native, but, hey, it's not H balsam. |
21-02-2009, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Meta menardi It's a grass. look at your lawn. Not a native, but, hey, it's not H balsam. | haha imagine if the balsam was evergreen ...or ever pink i spose 
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