Bamboo Collection

Bamboo Collection 

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“…the Bartlett Arboretum is home to a small but distinguished group of shrubs that are either surviving in a climate ordinarily hostile…or simply specimens not often seen in the Connecticut landscape…” -Our Little Oddities, Flowering Shrubs at the Bartlett Arboretum. vol. 12, no. 2, date unknown.

This is one of the collections that was “rediscovered” and included again it after finding several mentions of it in our research. One such example is an article entitled, Our Little Oddities, date unknown, but probably circa 1988 or 1989, published by the University of Connecticut Department of Plant Science, that highlighted the Bamboo at the Bartlett entrance— Phyllostanchys aureosulcata or Yellow-groove bamboo—as one of only a few species hardy to -20 degrees.

Before being culled back, previous maps show there was once a “bamboo walk” that connected the front entrance and the area where the Native Plant Shade Garden is currently located.

Today, the Bamboo Collection can be found in two locations; one just as you enter the Arboretum and the other alongside the trail when headed towards Scofield Magnet Middle School. There are a variety of species, including both clumping and spreading types of bamboo.