Hallson Gardens

My containerized hardy bamboos survived the winter, but temperatures were not kind to the leaves. The culms are fine, but the leaves are firmly attached. Rather than deal with tediously picking them off, would the bamboos tend to regenerate quickly if cut back to the ground level?

These are all hardy, running bamboos, such as Phyllostachys and some others.

Hi John - Wish I could answer your question. WE had the coldest winter here on record and several of my newly-planted clumping bamboos (from last summer) had a hard time. Two I swore were dead, but one of them is starting to send up tiny new shoots so I'm hopeful it will pull through. I just bought three more clumpers to add to my back fence, were I hope to have a nice bamboo screen one of these decades!

Andi

My understanding is that the culms do NOT regenerate
Once you cut them back they are finished
New culms will appear but they are NEW and will take their time to grow
Of course, at my age, I could be wrong