Hello everyone, I am in search of cold hardy clumping bamboo for zone 7. I am willing to pay reasonable shipping or trade. I have seeds and a few types of plants for unrooted cutting. Please check out my exchange page. Additionally, I have Christmas cactus that blooms white, salmon and pink. However, not sure what you will get as they are not marked. http://www.gardenweb.com/members/exch/smb1_sunshinegg

meat, I have imature "Yellow Groove" that I could send for postage. It started out a few years ago no taller than lawn grass, and this year I had some 3'-4' culms. Most of the rhizomes are around the size of a pencil or a little larger. Given our zones (and its size), you may want to wait until spring now. I probably could give you more and larger stuff then. If you don't want it because it may take a little longer to reach a larger size I understand. At best you'd be getting 2'-3' foot culms. I am hopeful for spring given how much it has spread out. If you want, keep my info and bug me in spring....LMK Rick

It gets cold here so I would like to try a start of a cold hardy clumping bamboo. I shoot for zone 5 when I can. Not too picky as long as it will survive our winters. I donÂt have bamboo to trade with but check my trade list. Can also trade for postage or send a box with postage. Thanks Dustin

Well........ Not sure about quite a few of those, but I think you'll be fine with the following: Saba Mysore Raja Puri And these are pretty reliable here in zone 7 (and even colder): m. lasiocarpa m. sikkimensis These probably would NOT be good choices: Hua Moa Dwarf Red I'm not sure about the others. Ones that I can recall off the top of my head that wouldn't be suitable in zone 8a would be: Jamaican Red musa beccarii AeAe Cavendish musa zebrina (or Rojo, Sumatrana) Too tired to think right now, but that's a start. And to be sure, none of the fruiting types are really completely reliably hardy in zone 8a without some form of protection, usually in the form of mulch. Species bananas, such as musa sikkimensis, and of course musa basjoo, are hardier on average than the fruiting types.