Flowering is the nightmare of many bamboo lovers because they fear that the plant will subsequently die. There are many ways to avoid this scenario.

Bamboo is valued for its incomparable appearance and as a privacy screen in the form of bamboo hedges. A downer for its fans is the flowering, which in the worst case can cause the plants of a species to die. The good news is that new cultivars can be expected to flower in 60 to 80 years at the earliest. Some bamboo species can easily cope with flowering if they are pruned back hard and then fertilized and watered well.

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