by Sherry Boas | Jun 20, 2013 | asian lemon, blue bamboo, clumping bamboo, new shoots, seabreeze
Bamboo grows quickly especially when weather is hot and wet.Bamboo in the background…wind chimes in the foreground…rain all aroundWe’ve recently had both at our Central Florida homestead and our many clumping bamboo plants have responded to the rain...
by Sherry Boas | Jul 29, 2012 | bamboo questions, clumping bamboo, controlling bamboo, creating hedge, graceful
A customer who planted a hedge of Graceful Clumping Bamboo along his property line several years ago recently wrote with the following question: Our clumping bamboo is growing really well, but starting to hang into our neighbors yard, should I cut the...
by Sherry Boas | Jun 7, 2012 | clumping bamboo, hedge
Two lovely hedges of clumping bamboosSome of the best bamboos for creating dense living walls of green are in the Bambusa multiplex family of clumping bamboos. Bambusa multiplex alphonse karr (Golden Hedge), Bambusa multiplex golden goddess (Golden Goddess) and...
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...
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...
