Blue Fountain Bamboo is a non-invasive clumping bamboo with hollow blue-grey to dark purple stems with distinctive nodes. The culms support the delicate looking fountain like plums of light green foliage year round. Grows best with afternoon shade in Southern climates and moist well-drained soils. Blue Fountain may have difficultly in high heat/humidity summers.
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Height: |
12' - 15' |
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Spread: |
3' - 5' |
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Spacing: |
4’ |
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USDA Hardiness Zone: |
5 - 9 |
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N/A |
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MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance plant. Aphids, spider mites, mealybugs, and scale are occasional problems.
LANDSCAPE USES: Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Naturalized Areas, Woodland Garden, Rock Garden, Foundation Plantings, and containers.
COMPANION PLANTS: Japanese Maple, Azalea, Lily of the Valley
IMAGES: Stan Shebs, Fargesia nitida 1, CC BY-SA 3.0, (2) Photo by David J. Stang, Fargesia nitida 1zz, CC BY-SA 4.0 (3) Andrey Zharkikh, 2012.04.30_18.20.03_CIMG7213, (4) Quinn Dombrowski, Fountain Bamboo
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
