Depending on which bamboo variety you have you have either noticed the canes emerging and growing strong already or some just breaking the surface of the soil. Bamboo, though tough and usually will survive anything here are a few tips.
Care:
Bamboo will usually grow toward the moist spots in the yard. If you have it in a container and let it completely dry out it usually dies. In the ground, once established, it'll take a dry spot but it grows stronger and healthier in a spot well watered. Feed it a high nitrogen fertilizer.
One of the best things to keep it looking good, healthy, and get bigger canes is to prune out the 3-4 year old canes. They're usually the ratty looking ones. If you have black bamboo they're usually the ones bleaching white. If you cut out the older canes then that energy goes into the new growth and also gives the new canes more room.
Pests! Once in a while bamboo will get a spider mite. There are toxic things you can spray it with but I prefer to hose them down whenever I water. Mites love dry and hot, hate moist and cool. Also the pruning out the oldest canes tends to get rid of many mites since they tend to pick on the older growth.
Not all bamboo are invasive! There are now several hard clumping bamboos available. Also there are shade ones, dwarf ones, variegated ones, and fake ones (Nandina).
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