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Fargesia rufa

Mountain Bamboo

Plant Type:

GRASSES & GRASS-LIKE PLANTS

Fargesia rufa – Fargesia rufa is a robust, shorter growing Mountain Bamboo. The branchlets are pink, a delicate and lovely tint on yellow stems. The foliage is rich glossy green – a handsome clumper, indeed. Mountain Bamboo is also somewhat more sun tolerant. In the north spring planting is strongly recommended. Mountain Bamboo has tended to be more evergreen for us in northeastern Connecticut. Clumping. Division. Full pots bursting at the seams.


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Height:

6 ft

Zone:

5 to 8
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Characteristics and Attributes for Fargesia rufa

Season of Interest (Foliage)

  • Four Seasons

Interesting Bark

  • Colored

Nature Attraction

  • Deer Resistant

Light

  • Morning Sun / Afternoon Shade
  • Shade Tolerant
  • Dappled Shade

Attributes

  • Screen
  • Accent
  • Shrub Border
  • Hedge
  • Evergreen
  • Massing
  • Specimen
  • Woodland

Growth Rate in the Garden

  • Slow

Soil

  • Moist
  • Acid
  • Fertile

Origins

  • China

Propagated By

  • Division

Genus Overview: Fargesia

Fargesia is a genus of honest-to-goodness clumping bamboos. They are elegant in breezes, beautiful as specimens and can make a soft, plush refined hedge or screen. Evergreen in milder climates they lose their foliage here in USDA zone 5b. Though they do unfurl some leaves during mild spells in winter – where there were bare stems suddenly there are green blades as if having arrived by magic, surprising and heart warming, pointing in the direction of things to come. Some morning sun is tolerated, dappled conditions are excellent, but protection from afternoon sun is advised for most. Fertile, draining soils that are neutral to modestly acid on the Ph scale are fundamental. Organic mulches of chopped leaves or wood chips are a definite benefit. Planting Fargesia near asphalt or cement walkways or roads may or may not be an issue but best to err on the side of caution. The running bamboos can and will become a problem when planted adjacent to tar, cement, stone work or rubber EPDM liners holding water in a man-made pool. All of the following offerings are divisions of our stock plants.