Those plants were too young and too small to divide. If you are going to buy bamboo in 1-gallon pots, plant them and give them a couple of years to establish themselves. Several years hence they may be ready to divide. As for your existing plants, although I hope I am wrong, I suspect that the premature dividing probably either did them in, or set them back a lot. You can cut back any parts that are dead (tan culms), and leave them in the ground and keep watering and some of them might come back, but it will be a long time before any still alive recover and size up. If you want a hedge any time soon, you will probably have to start over with new plants. Bamboo is very resilient, but dividing such small plants usually doesn't leave enough root mass to allow the divisions to survive, especially in the kind of hot weather you have been having. Sorry... This post was edited by kudzu9 on Thu, Oct 9, 14 at 3:15

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I have SW Macadamia with cherry furniture in a very traditional colonial home. It has no yellow or gold undertones. I have red, navy, and dark green upholstery fabrics and Williamsburg accessories. Love it.

I think you would have a better response and more interest if you posted this on the DESIGN DILEMMA forum or HOME DECORATING FORUM as you post is more about decorating. Most of the posters on this forum are here for information on home building products, floor plans, and how to's related to the building of a home. You can post here but I would expect you will get many more responses/discussions on one of the 2 suggested forums.