Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini' Canopy Trees and pair with camellias and

and pair with camellias and other broadleaf evergreens for a fragrant

in a bog bed

green berries ripening to gold while fresh blue sprays open above them

Modest in size at twelve to fifteen feet

'Gold Top' is a Woodlanders introduction

Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini' Canopy Trees and pair with camellias andPleioblastus distichus 'Mini' is the smallest of the running bamboos, a fine textured dwarf that behaves more like a groundcover than a grove. The tiny, glossy leaves line up in flat, two ranked sprays, fern like and neat, on threadlike stems only eight or ten inches high, building a dense green carpet that can be mowed or edged like a lawn. Despite the fern like delicacy, this is a true bamboo, a member of the grass family from Japan, and the epithet