Grow golden bamboo at the back of sunny or partially shady borders to add structure and architecture to your exotic or woodland garden the hardy perennial also makes an interesting screen phyllostachys vivax f aureocaulis is a particularly impressive variety so much so that the rhs have given it an award of garden merit 40agm41 from its green striped golden canes to the elegant evergreen leaves that grow upon them golden chinese timber bamboo offers something to please every garden