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Bamboo Plants for Every Garden
Explore the UK's best selection of cold-hardy, clumping bamboo. Perfect for screening, pots, and tropical-style borders—specially chosen for our climate.
Welcome to Scottish Bamboo
Scotland’s specialist in cold-hardy, clumping bamboo plants. Family-run since 2008, we offer over 50 hand-selected varieties perfect for UK gardens—plus ferns, grasses, and outdoor bonsai to complete your tropical retreat. Delivered nationwide, grown with care.
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5 Jun 2024
Received my Bamboo order this morning and very impressed. Firstly with the packaging which was excellent but also the plant is a lot bigger than I expected and very healthy. If you are thinking of getting Bamboo this is the company to buy from. Excellent service. Highly recommend
Date of experience: 05 June 2024
Margaret Tait
We ordered 4 fargesia rufa plants, which arrived by overnight delivery. The carrier was careful and courteous, and the plants were in very good condition, snugly packaged in a neat triangular box which was easy to slit open. They are healthy and well grown, and look as if they will quickly thicken up to provide the screening we had hoped for. Scottish Bamboo offer a great selection of plants, something to suit every situation really.
Date of experience: 22 March 2021
Pat Colston
Great Plants and great delivery
17 Jun 2021
Dispatched within the timeframe quoted and quick delivery. I was a bit concerned about ordering such large plants online but can’t fault the thought put into the packaging and clear instructions. Plants came well watered despite the current weather and all 3 look good healthy specimens with strong root balls. Now planted and looking good. Would definitely recommend for your bamboo. Suspect I will be back for more.
Date of experience: 17 June 2021
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FAQs
You can plant bamboo anytime the ground is workable. We dig and plant most of the year in Scotland, apart from November - February when the ground can be very deep with frost. Planting is best done during the Autumn or Spring time, but all during the Summer months is also fine as long as you water the bamboo frequently.
We only sell bamboo plants that are capable of surviving the harsh climate we experience here in North East Scotland. We often see temperatures plummet to below -15 degrees celcius each winter. The only bamboo plant here at the nursery which we watch when temperatures are set to get to these extreme sub-zero temperatures is the beautifulChimonobambusa Tumidissinoda. We specifically keep this one in containers so it can be given some extra protection in these circumstances. It is hardy to minus 13 degrees celcius - probably fine for 95% of the UK! Such a beautiful bamboo, it is a must for us to have so the extra care is well worth it!
We specialise in the specific genus of bamboo called FARGESIA. ALL Fargesia bamboo are classified as clumping / non-invasive / non-running. Fargesia bamboo have a pachymorph rhizome system which means that they have clumping roots. This means the root system stays in one area and doesn’t travel far (like running bamboo does). So, you don’t have to worry about barriers and the bamboo taking over your neighbour’s garden. Fargesia bamboo are also classified as 'short-medium' height bamboo, most of them will mature under 12ft / 4 metres.
All the hardy varieties of bamboo we supply are evergreen, they keep their leaves all year round. They do however naturally shed around 10-15% of their leaves between Autumn and Spring allowing for fresh new leaves to come through from Spring into Summer. You will therefore see an amount of yellow fallen leaves at the base of your bamboo plant, this provides the plant with essential nutrients for the following growing season so it is best left to naturally mulch around the roots.
Although all our bamboo plants are very hardy, young plants can benefit from winter protection during their first winter, especially when relatively juvenile. This can be a form of wind protection or some horticultural fleece loosely wrapped over the plant. Some mature plants can suffer some winter damage to the top growth but they are usually fully root hardy and will recover the following growing season.
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