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              (Japanese Timber Bamboo)
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              ‘Castillon’
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               (Sweetshoot Bamboo)
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               (Moso)
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               (Water Bamboo)
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               (Black Bamboo)
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               (Tiger Bamboo)
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              (Chinese Timber Bamboo)
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              (Chinese Walking Stick Bamboo)
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              in Albany, Oregon

Installing Bamboo

Bamboo Valley is a licensed landscape contractor. You say "dig" and we say "how deep?"

Dain digs a big hole for this monster. The elaborate winch system helps position the bamboo perfectly on the steep slope. The bamboos weighed at least 250 lbs, so taking them back out of the holes was not really an option.
Four bamboos in total were in 45 and 65 gallon pots, (They are kind of like bathtubs). That's a lot of soil to move by hand.

These heavy 35 foot tall Henon bamboos didn't weigh enough to begin (only about 150 lbs!) and tipped over in the wind. So a few months after we first put them in we had to take them out of the pots and fill the bottom half of the pots with heavy gravel. The sophisticated winch system made this one possible. Better would have been to have pots with wider bases from the get go. Better yet, no pots at all!!!

This job was a tough one. The Black Bamboo had been in these culvert sections for over 10 years and while they had not broken the steel, they had grown up and over to top rims, snaked their way down to the free soil, and rooted in there, and started to spread. We cut off the culverts, divided up the bamboo and replanted it in another spot without barriers, just a control ditch around the new grove site (man with dog photo.)