P.aureocaulis gone forever - or is it?
Having spent many hours trying to control this blasted plant we decided to chop it down. We must have removed several hundred culms over the past few years as we were stupid enough not to dig a barrier around it. There are still many smaller culms coming up all over the garden so I think it will probably be some time before we finally see the last of it. I intend to replace it with Himalayacalamus (the blue one) and perhaps as a tall pachymorph it will behave.