Bamboos can often strike fear into the heart of gardeners as some are invasive but fear not this little bamboo is a very well behaved garden guestr fargesia is one of the best types as it is short and has many small canes and a much more delicate appearance than more thuggish members of the family in fact its juicy new shoots are the stuff pandas dream ofa relatively newly introduced dwarf bamboo it produces masses of new culms as the new shoots are called which have a rusty tinge