by Sherry Boas | Mar 5, 2011 | graceful
Bamboo is an instant gratification plant and even 3- or 7-gallon size bamboos will form a solid wall of green in one growing season if planted in a rich soil that is fertilized and watered regularly. Our son, Toby, stands next to a young clump of Graceful that...
by Sherry Boas | Mar 3, 2011 | bamboo questions, creating hedge, running bamboo, transplanting
Running bamboos like cold climates. They will grow taller and have larger diameter canes if grown in cold climates instead of warm ones. Although this stand of Vivax running bamboo is covered in icicles during the winter of 2009, it wasn’t damaged at...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 28, 2011 | bamboo questions, irrigation, water
Bamboo leaves that are receiving adequate water are flat and openWhile the leaves of the same type of bamboo (in this case, yellow groove running bamboo) getting insufficient water curl inwardI received this email today:We have had our bamboo in the ground for about 3...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 26, 2011 | bamboo creations, bamboo flutes, clumping bamboo
People have been making musical instruments out of bamboo for thousands of years. The oldest bamboo flute dates back to 433 BC and was discovered in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at the Suizhou site, Hubei province, China. Over the ages, people around the...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 24, 2011 | clumping bamboo, transplanting, yin yang
Timmy and Ralph relocate a two-year-old Yin-Yang bambooMy office window faces a clay wall that we carved out of a hillside years ago in order to build our house. The wall is not particularly attractive and to hide it we have planted bamboos. A couple days...
