Semiarundinaria yashadake ‘Kimmei’

Description

Semiarundinaria yashadake ‘Kimmei’ 🎍
Common Name: Kimmei Bamboo
Type: Running Bamboo | Colorful & Upright 🌿 | Striking Ornamental 🌾

Semiarundinaria yashadake ‘Kimmei’ is a vibrant ornamental bamboo celebrated for its golden-yellow culms with vivid green stripes, creating a striking contrast in any landscape 🎍🌿. In cooler weather, the canes often develop warm reddish-orange highlights, adding seasonal flair and visual interest.

Growing in an upright, vase-like form, ‘Kimmei’ is ideal for screening, modern landscapes, or as a specimen plant. Its dense foliage starts lower on the cane, providing a full and lush appearance from top to bottom. While it is a running bamboo, its growth is manageable with containment methods, making it suitable for gardens that want bold color and clean lines 🏡🍃.

🌿 Key Features:
📏 Height: 10–16 ft (3–5 m)
📐 Spread: Running (use rhizome barrier or root pruning)
❄️ Hardiness Zones: USDA 6–10
🎍 Growth Habit: Upright, arching form
🌿 Culms: Golden-yellow with green stripes, can blush red in cool weather
🍃 Foliage: Dense, mid-green leaves
🌤️ Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
🏡 Uses: Privacy screens, color contrast, modern gardens, focal planting

✅ Why Choose Semiarundinaria yashadake ‘Kimmei’?
🎋 Bold color for year-round interest
🌿 Strong, upright growth ideal for screens and accents
🍃 Dense foliage provides excellent coverage
❄️ Cold-hardy and adaptable
🏡 Adds structure and brilliance to any landscape

Bring color, elegance, and energy to your garden with ‘Kimmei’, a show-stopping bamboo that offers both function and flair 🎍🌿.

This is a delightful form of the species that has lots of thin golden culms that can turn a dusky pink or red when grown in full sun. Kimmei is shorter than the species, reaching 3.5m at most -but usually shorter than this. The leaves are small and held on short stems close to the culm. The culms have a green stripe above each branch. This is a great all rounder as it is good in full sun or semi shade and it has a vertical habit and bushy foliage.

Planting and care

Kimmei is best grown in sun or semi shade and in moist or dry soil with the addition of organic matter. It is a very reliable garden plant. If planting in more direct sun try and give it afternoon shade. Water in well and do not let it dry out in the first six months. After this, if in the ground it should look after itself. The best food a Bamboo can have is its own dead leaves and culm sheaths, so leave these to mulch the base of the plant.