Fargesia nitida ‘Jiuzhaigou’

Description

Fargesia nitida ‘Jiuzhaigou’ 🎋

Common Name: Red-Caned Bamboo
Type: Clumping Bamboo | Cold-Hardy ❄️ | Ornamental 🌿

Create a standout feature in your landscape with Fargesia nitida ‘Jiuzhaigou’, a bamboo variety that offers both beauty and practicality. Known for its graceful arching leaves and vibrant red culms, this non-invasive bamboo thrives in cooler climates, transforming from green to deep red or purple as temperatures drop 🍁.

Perfect for smaller spaces, it forms tight clumps without the spreading issues of running bamboo 🌿. Its versatility makes it a top choice for privacy hedges, garden accents, or container planting 🪴.

🌿 Key Features:

• 📏 Height: 6–15 ft (1.8–4.5 m)

• 📐 Spread: 3–5 ft (0.9–1.5 m)

• ❄️ Hardiness: USDA Zones 5–9

• 🎍 Growth Habit: Clumping, non-invasive

• 🍃 Foliage: Narrow, dark green leaves

• 🌈 Culms: Red or purple with sun exposure and cool weather

• 🌤️ Light Requirements: Partial shade to full sun

• 🌾 Uses: Privacy screens, hedges, containers, decorative accents

✅ Why Choose ‘Jiuzhaigou’?

🌱 Elegant red canes provide year-round color and texture
❄️ Cold-hardy to -20°F (-29°C) — ideal for colder regions
🎋 Non-invasive and easy to maintain
🌱 Perfect for creating privacy or adding height in tight spaces
🪴 Great for containers, small gardens, or as a specimen plant

Fargesia nitida ‘Jiuzhaigou’ brings a perfect balance of color, structure, and hardiness to any garden — a bamboo that grows beautifully while staying in control. 🌿🎋

Similar to Fargesia murielae, this bamboo looks best when grown in partial shade and is more upright.  Plant it directly into the ground for maximum growth and form.  The culms emerge an intense reddish burgundy color. This is a great bamboo for the lazy gardener. It is tough, beautiful and clumping.  The previous time this bamboo flowered was in the late 1880’s.

Fargesia are compact, densely clump-forming evergreen bamboos with slender arching canes and several small branches at each node bearing copious narrow leaves

A vigorous, upright, bushy clump of dark brown to dark green to almost black, slender stems with small, narrow green leaves. May be used as a screen or informal hedge, even though it loses some leaves in the winter it still holds ever green to -32C