BAMBOO INVENTORY LIST SPRING 2020 FIELD GROWN AND CONTAINER BAMBOO CLUMPING & RUNNING VARIETIES The Utility Research Garden has a million bamboo that can clear the air in Greenville, Mississippi. We’ve for Texas and a million more for whatever state you’re delivered bamboo to NOLA, to a woman named in. We have bamboo for altered states, bamboo for Zola, to Waco, to Oklahoma, to a Pancho, a lefty, grand estates, bamboo for state run television, and several right wing compounds. Our bamboo is bamboo for Grambling State, for grumbling states, ubiquitous in Austin, stands tall in Baton Rouge, DELIVERING WEEKLY and bamboo for people in rambling states of unease teaches countless Westerners about the Eastern ACROSS TEXAS, LOUISIANA, about the course of history. values of open hearts, firm bodies, bending in the Bamboo has had a thousand jobs over the past wind, but not breaking under pressure. & THE SOUTH thousand years and it’s equally at home in the Orient We cultivate over a hundred different varieties as in the Occident. Half the bamboo species in the of bamboo, and we are cultivated by it too. Blocking world are home on land you and I can walk to, but neighbors is its specialty, as is blocking freeways, CONTACT: the best known plants and the most recognized uses flyways, and country byways. But the true beauty, come to us from the East, which is easier to get to by only occasionally seen in our neck of the woods, [email protected] pointing your boat west. is a grove of bamboo whistling and knocking in the PHONE: 512-626-9825 That said, we have bamboo that grows well in breeze, it’s ten-thousand leaves each speaking quietly to one another. WWW.UTILITYRESEARCHGARDEN.COM Texarkansas, but not so much in Terlingua. We have bamboo that thrives in Orange County and bamboo —David Cater, the Utility Research Garden GENUS - SPECIES / VARIETY OR COMMON NAME QUANTITY SIZE / TYPE HEIGHT PRICE COLD HARDINESS Bambusa chungii / Barbellata If bamboo were ghosts, this would be Caspar, the 196 5g 8’+ $35.00 Zone 9a friendly bamboo. White sheets for canes. Or blue. 7 15g 10’ $89.00 (20-25°F) Slightly smaller than B. chungii. to 20’ or 22’ 27 *Field Specimens 20’ CALL Bambusa chungii / Blue Bamboo It is blue. Or it’s white, when it’s not green. Should be 40 7g 7’ $69.00 Zone 9a the bamboo of choice where it can be seen. to 25’ 18 30g 12’ $149.00 (20-25°F) 150 *Field Specimens 20’ CALL Bambusa dissimulator Big, strong canes that grow up & out and into the sky. 22 30g 14’ $149.00 Zone 9a/9b Why? Why not. to 35’ (25°F) Bambusa dolichomerithalla / Silverstripe As pretty & as hardy as B. textilis. Few know this bamboo. 60 30g 12’ $149.00 Zone 8b But many should. White stripes on green canes. to 35’ 32 *Field Specimens 10’ CALL (15-20°) Bambusa emeiensis / Flavidorivens Leaves-down, the single prettiest bamboo we cultivate. 13 5g 5’ $35.00 Zone 8b Has all the qualities. Tall. Not too tall. Perfectly upright. 5 65g 18’ $329.00 (15-20°) Leaves hanging down. Goldstriped with green. to 35’ 12 *Field Specimens 18’ CALL Bambusa emeiensis / Yin Yang The green striped with gold. The inverse of 17 *Field Specimens 12’ CALL Zone 8b flavidorivens. to 35’ (15-20°) Bambusa eutuldoides / Viridivittata [email protected] 512.626.9825 512.626.9825 [email protected] “Lemon” Bamboo. But not a lemon in sight. If it had fruit, 160 15g 12’ $89.00 Zone 9a there’d be a fight. Try as it may, try as it might, this 10 30g 14’ $149.00 (20-25°F) yellow bamboo is quite a sight. 35’ 15 95g 15’ $399.00 Bambusa malengensis / Seabreeze Seabreeze... Doesn’t make a wind, but moves in one. If I 6 15g 10’ $89.00 Zone 8b chose a bamboo to strap myself to in a Hurricane, this 18 30g 14’ $149.00 (15-20°) would be it. to 45’ 14 95g 18’ $399.00 195 *Field Specimens 15’-20’ CALL UTILITY RESEARCH GARDEN CLUMPING BAMBOO NOTE: Prices Do NOT Include Taxes or Delivery Fees *FIELD SPECIMENS: Available sizes & pricing varies based upon plant species/variety. Field Specimens are generally equivalent to 65 gal, 95 gal, and 200 gal container sizes. Price range $199-$899. Orders are custom dug, ball & burlap (B&B). CALL for inquiries. GENUS - SPECIES / VARIETY OR COMMON NAME QUANTITY SIZE / TYPE HEIGHT PRICE COLD HARDINESS Bambusa multiplex / Alphonse Karr I don’t love it. But people know it. And they buy and plant 70 15g 6’ $68.00 Zone 8b it. I’d let it go if I could. But this bamboo is still in. to 15’ (15-20°) Bambusa multiplex / Featherleaf Like ‘Golden Goddess’ but not all that Golden. But then, 50 7g 6’ $48.00 Zone 8b ‘Golden Goddess’ is not all that Golden either. to 14’ (15-20°) Bambusa multiplex / Fernleaf True to it’s name, leaves like a 10’ tall fern. 8 5g 3’-4’ $29.00 Zone 8b 75 15g 6’-7’ $68.00 (15-20°) Bambusa multiplex / Golden Goddess ALL the bamboo turn Golden in the Midday Sun. Except 370 5g 4’-7’ $29.00 Zone 8b the bamboo that turn to coffee or black. But green 690 15g 8’ $68.00 (15-20°) bamboo go gold, all told. to 12’ Bambusa multiplex / Green Alphonse Karr The green version of Alphonse Karr. to 15’ 15 15g 8’ $68.00 Zone 8b (15-20°) Bambusa multiplex / Green Hedge This is the Papa Bear. All his offspring weep and fountain. 30 5g 5’ $29.00 Zone 8b But sadness is not his style. He’s green and happy to form 29 30g 15’ $129.00 (15-20°) a screen. to 18’ 75 *Field Specimens 16’ CALL Bambusa multiplex / Longfellow This is the skinny-minnie of the multiplex clan. Growing 64 5g 8’ $29.00 Zone 8b 512.626.9825 [email protected] tall, this bamboo can. And it will. Weepily to 18’ 40 15g 8’ $68.00 (15-20°) Bambusa multiplex / Silverstripe-Recurvata How the white stripes come in Spring but leave in 30 *Field Specimens 10’ CALL Zone 8b Summer. Where do they go? And why do they go this way? (15-20°) to a curvy 8’ tall Bambusa multiplex / Silverstripe-Upright Same as above, but likes the sky. Has more respect for it. 15 *Field Specimens 15’ CALL Zone 8b UTILITY RESEARCH GARDEN Grows right into it. Up, up, and away. White stripes then (15-20°) CLUMPING BAMBOO none. to 16’ NOTE: Prices Do NOT Include Taxes or Delivery Fees *FIELD SPECIMENS: Available sizes & pricing varies based upon plant species/variety. Field Specimens are generally equivalent to 65 gal, 95 gal, and 200 gal container sizes. Price range $199-$899. Orders are custom dug, ball & burlap (B&B). CALL for inquiries. GENUS - SPECIES / VARIETY OR COMMON NAME QUANTITY SIZE / TYPE HEIGHT PRICE COLD HARDINESS Bambusa multiplex riviereorum / Chinese Goddess This is the 6’ little-sister to ‘Fernleaf’. Same leaf. Hasn’t 300 5g 4’-5’ $29.00 Zone 8b been turned over. Just closer to the ground. 29 15g 7’ $68.00 (15-20°) 5 30g 8’ $129.00 Bambusa pervariabilis viridistriata Another one that should be everywhere it can grow. The 47 30g 10’-15’ $149.00 Zone 9a culms are GIANT ‘Alphonse Karr’, with 40’ more cloud - (20-25°) reach. to 55’ altogether. Bambusa textilis / Albostriata The greenest (with white stripes), and greatest (in my 250 5g 6’-7’ $35.00 Zone 8b opinion) bamboo for our climes. All other things being 24 30g 12’ $149.00 (15-20°) equal, the prettiest. to 30’ 5 45g 15’ $229.00 69 *Field Specimens 15’ CALL Bambusa textilis / Emerald OK. this may be the greenest bamboo we grow. But who’d 80 7g 7’ $69.00 Zone 8b know? Everyone speaks of ‘Gracilis’, (that graceful 11 30g 10’ $149.00 (15-20°) bamboo). ‘Gracilis’ is not ‘Emerald’. to 30’ 38 *Field Specimens 10’ CALL Bambusa textilis / Glabra 34 *Field Specimens 16’ CALL If the textilis clan were bears, this is the Mama Bear. Big 17 30g 12’ $149.00 Zone 8b green paws that protect you from some of lifes sorrows. 4 95g 16’ $399.00 (15-20°) to 35’ 185 *Field Specimens 16’-25’ CALL Bambusa textilis / Gracilis The Baby Bear with lush green hair. Grows straight like 410 5g 5’-6’ $35.00 Zone 8b Papa Bear (Kanapaha), but with skinnny, kid legs. to 25’ 12 15g 10’ $89.00 (15-20°) 512.626.9825 [email protected] 6 30g 15’ $149.00 19 *Field Specimens 20’ CALL Bambusa textilis / Kanapaha This is a bamboo that people can say, “Whoa!” “That’s 27 15g 8’ $89.00 Zone 8b bamboo”. It grows straight and T A L L. But that’s not 60 *Field Specimens 14’ CALL (15-20°) all. to 65’ Bambusa textilis / Lee Ching Kuo Another big blue-green non algae like plant. Found in 36 *Field Specimens 20’ CALL Zone 8b UTILITY RESEARCH GARDEN the most amazing vegetable garden. Hardy, upright, (15-20°) CLUMPING BAMBOO amazing. to 45’ NOTE: Prices Do NOT Include Taxes or Delivery Fees *FIELD SPECIMENS: Available sizes & pricing varies based upon plant species/variety. Field Specimens are generally equivalent to 65 gal, 95 gal, and 200 gal container sizes. Price range $199-$899. Orders are custom dug, ball & burlap (B&B). CALL for inquiries. GENUS - SPECIES / VARIETY OR COMMON NAME QUANTITY SIZE / TYPE HEIGHT PRICE COLD HARDINESS Bambusa textilis / Maculata The name isn’t ‘Gracilis’ but still smells as sweet.