by Sherry Boas | Mar 9, 2010 | running bamboo, vivax
Yesterday on a walk around the lake, Ralph snapped these photos of me posing with the ‘boo. Above and below I’m standing in a grove of Vivax Timber Running Bamboo (Phyllostachys vivax). Vivax is one of my favorite running bamboos because...
by Sherry Boas | Mar 6, 2010 | running bamboo, vivax
It’s always so exciting when Vivax running bamboo begins to shoot. The young canes emerge with such promise of beauty and strength. … See my Tabblo>
by Sherry Boas | Mar 3, 2010 | wildlife
The other day I was helping a customer select a number of Alphonse karr bamboos in the nursery when a pretty gray catbird fluttered by. The surprisingly bold bird was not bothered by my presence and let me shoot several pictures before he (she?) decided to fly off to...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 26, 2010 | transporting bamboo
Customers often wonder how many bamboo plants they can take home in their cars. Today a customer visited the nursery to purchase and pick up 8 plants in 7-gal containers. The bamboos all had multiple canes and stood between 8′ and 12′...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 26, 2010 | new shoots, running bamboo, vivax
Two new 2″ diameter Vivax shoots have just emerged! Vivax is a large-caned running bamboo and, like all runners, it sends up its new shoots earlier in the season than clumping bamboos. But in February??? Not normally. Yet the...
