Bamboozle

Trebah has an excellent collection of bamboos and they were grouped together in a specially created maze of paths known as the Bamboozle, which zig zags alongside the stream. There are numerous different species and cultivars to be found there; black canes, golden brown canes, yellow canes, green canes – even square canes! One of the most spectacular is the ‘Moso Bamboo’ Phyllostachys edulis which has olive-green canes thicker than a man’s arm and has been known to grow 30cm in just 24 hours. It would be impossible anywhere within the British Isles for such a growth rate to be sustained indefinitely, but specimens at Trebah do regularly reach 10m tall in just one growing season.