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Grasses

Ornamental and meadow grasses, for texture and movement.

Illustration of pampas grass

B

Black Bamboo
Phyllostachys nigra
How to grow black bamboo. Why a running bamboo needs a barrier before it needs anything else, how to install one properly, the legal risk of letting it spread, and how the canes turn black.
Moderate

C

Common Bamboo
Bambusa vulgaris
How to grow Bambusa vulgaris. The tropical clumping bamboo behind most of the world's bamboo construction, why it will not survive a British winter outdoors, and what to grow instead.
Moderate

P

U

Umbrella Bamboo
Fargesia murielae
How to grow Fargesia murielae, the umbrella bamboo. The clump-forming bamboo that cannot run, why almost every plant on Earth flowered and died in the 1990s, and where it beats Phyllostachys.
Easy