by Sherry Boas | Feb 20, 2011 | bamboo questions, landscape, running bamboo
A customer who bought bamboo from us in January recently went to a local flea market where she purchased a container of bamboo from someone who couldn’t say what kind of bamboo it was. The customer then sent us the following picture of the bamboo along...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 18, 2011 | clumping bamboo, thinning bamboo, yin yang
Ralph recently thinned out one of our favorite clumping bamboos, Yin Yang Timber. This 2-year-old line of four plants started out with a single cane from 3-gal containers when they were first planted. Now, 2 years later, the four clumps have grown together...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 15, 2011 | bamboo questions, cold weather, irrigation, mulch, new shoots, water
A customer from Winter Park, FL wrote to ask about winter watering needs for bamboo: Now that winter is still with us, yet changing into something like Spring over the next few days, should we adjust our winter watering schedule? We have restrictions at this time of...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 5, 2011 | birds, giant timber bamboo, wildlife
Ralph and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see this osprey fly in and land on a clump of mature Oldhamii bamboo. He’s perched on the thin tip of a cane that lost its leaves in the recent cold spell. Ralph and I might object to a few...
by Sherry Boas | Dec 22, 2010 | bamboo questions, cold weather
A customer who bought bamboo from us before the recent cold snap wrote to ask: Is it normal for the bamboo to brown in the winter? All but the Golden Hedge now have brown leaves, following some rather bitterly cold nights we had last week and the week...
