Sweet......

Dig it up and ship it to me asap!!
CJ

It's growing on public property, so I guess it is free for the digging. The accessible grove is over an acre in size and continues onto private property for maybe another acre or so. Yep, that's a lot of fishing poles. I have trails cut all though it and even one leading down to the river.

There are still stories around here about the 'Wildman of the Navidad', and it wasn't until recently that I began to think that maybe some of those stories are possibly sparked by me, being spotted late in the evening light, disappearing into the thick brush(bamboo) along the river.

CJ, if you ever head down this way, I will give you directions to the grove, after I remove all of my bam-booby traps.

Kt

SO your the "one" in those folk tales...

Moving right along...

kentuck,

Been reading and "seeing" your posts. Noticed you are in the same zone as I am here in Texas. I travel between Hallettsville and San Antonio on occasion, and I am curious about this grove or any others near Hallettsville. This one sounds impressive. The opportunity to walk through this one would be greatly appreciated....that is if you would be inclined to offer directions...

This grove is outside Columbus along the Colorado River Bridge. The bamboo grows on the east side of the Northbound lane on the HWY 71 Bypass. You can see my place from there. I haven't been there in a while because of the mosquitos, but will go again soon and re-cut my paths through the grove. I keep the openings kind of hidden, but once you step inside and find them, you can follow them like hallways. I have two large rocks set up like a chair just outside the grove and under the bridge to sit on in the late evenings when the weather is cooler.

Another bridge over the Colorado on I-10 driving toward Houston, on the right side of the road under a huge tree(Cottonwood, I think) is a stand of the much smaller native bamboo. It grows very dense and straight.

Outside Schulenburg, headed back toward Weimar, is a very large grove of Phyllostachys aurea on the left, before you get to I-10. Most of it is on private property, but you can see it.

There are dozens of groves around Weimar, La Grange(and In La Grange city limits) and Flatonia, all appear to be Phyllostachys aurea.

If you travel to Dubina, turn by the church and go over Piano Bridge. A short drive past it will reveal two groves. One is right along the road on the right, but is small, but the other, which you will come across first, is huge.

After you take a right turn on the gravel road just passed the bridge, look back over your left shoulder as you drive, and you will see it go off around the bend and out of sight.

Swiss Alps has some growing along the road.

If you travel through Rock Island, and want some clumping bamboo, there is some growing along the roadside in the ditch. I got some here on two different occassions. Mine gets much larger than the one growing there in the ditch.

Take the main road south through Rock Island. It's the one directly across from a road, the only road on the opposite side of the HWY 90. Coming from Hallettsville, and going toward Eagle Lake, you will be taking a right.

Now, take this road all the way through town, straight. As you leave town, the road starts to curve to the left, but you want to go straight, to the Stop Sign. Make a right, and just a short distance down the road, you will see it growing in the ditch in front of a remodeled old house on the left. I think it is Bambusa multiplex.

That's three kinds of bamboo that I know of around here.

In College Station, there are also several groves, if you ever go that direction, but they are also Phyllostachys aurea and native Arundinaria gigantea or either tecta.

In Weimar, there is a house on St Charles Street that has a yard full of several different kinds of bamboo, and well worth the trip to go see.

Good Luck, I'm not very good at giving directions so let me know if you need better instructions.

Kt

Thanks, Kentuck, for the info. I am not sure when I will be heading toward Hallettsville, but I will try to look you up ahead of time. I do NOT seek to dig in any of the above mentioned groves, but I would definitely enjoy exploring. "Your" grove outside Columbus on the Hwy 71 bypass looks to be the one I would definitely hope to see. When it cools down a bit, I will be happy to help you do some work on it if you like. Email me.

Mine havent gotten large enough to show the compression like yours... but even my small culms show a little.

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Here's your pics. Very nice! I see that some don't have the compressed nodes. I seem to recall that about an average of 25 percent(maybe less) of the culms, have the compressed nodes in all of the groves of aurea that I have visited.

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Kt