Bamboo Canes for Plants Support

Bamboo canes provide firm support for plants. Many gardeners and homeowners are increasingly using bamboo canes as stakes. The canes are small, strong and blend incredibly well where they are used.

There are many other fantastic uses of bamboo canes. We covered the common uses in the garden, read on to find out.

Buy bamboo canes for pot and garden plants

Here are some possible places to get bamboo canes for plants online or in shops.

• B&Q 
• Cherry Lane

The bamboo canes can support a variety of plants, shrubs and trees in gardens and pots. They are best for staking new plants and giving them the best possible start.

Many gardeners stake the plants or create frames for them to grow on. There are many options for using bamboo canes.

If you have a bamboo grove, you'll have an endless supply of bamboo canes, but if you do not have a bamboo plant, you can buy the bamboo canes online or at the nearest DIY shops.

Bamboo canes for garden plants

Bamboo canes are perfect for runner beans, tomatoes, raspberry and other soft fruit and vegetables in the garden.

Here are some examples of bamboo canes we used in the garden and in pots. They are a great support system for both the new and growing plants.

Examples of bamboo canes in use in pots and patio

What bamboo to grow for bamboo canes?

Both the running and the clumping bamboo plants are perfect for harvesting bamboo canes. 

Running bamboo provides long, upright and slender canes, best canes for supporting garden plants and pot plants.

The clump-forming bamboo plants are often slender and arching. Their culms will form dense clusters and produce canes, ideal for supporting plants in gardens and pots. Here are some recommendations.

If you want slim and tall bamboo canes, grow Phyllostachys aurea. It is also called the Fish-pole bamboo because of its long, slim and strong canes used as fishing rods in South-East Asia and Pacific regions.

Phyllostachys aurea fishpole bamboo

Large bamboo canes for garden plants

There are many large bamboo that give tall bamboo canes which youo can grow in the garden and harvest the canes.

The common tall bamboo plants in the UK are Phyllostachys aureosulcata aureocaulis, Phyllostachys aureosulcata spectabilis and Phyllostachys bissettii. 

They are tall bamboos with thick culms. They are ideal for staking shrubs and soft fruit or larger plants.

Whether you want slim and strong bamboo canes for pot plants or tall and thick bamboo canes for garden plants and shrubs, the Phyllostachys bamboos will not disappoint you.

The option for planting bamboo and benefiting from using the canes are endless.