by Sherry Boas | Jul 13, 2010 | clumping bamboo, creating hedge, gardening, landscape, privacy
This delicate-leafed hedge bamboo is a great choice for a smaller lot. It also works well as a container plant for patios or poolside planting. Golden Goddess can tolerate winter temperatures that dip for short periods of time into the high teens, making...
by Sherry Boas | Jun 5, 2010 | gardening, giant timber bamboo, landscape
A customer who bought bamboos from us three years ago returned to pick up four more plants this morning. A few hours later, I received this email from her:Hi, Sherry,Many thanks for all your time this morning, walking me round the various specimens and for all...
by Sherry Boas | Mar 16, 2010 | gardening, nursery tour
More than 20 members of the Royal Highlands Garden Club visited Beautiful Bamboo this morning for a garden tour. In the photo above we posed together in front of our Emerald Timber Bamboo, one of our many clumping bamboos in the demonstration line at our nursery.With...
by Sherry Boas | Aug 17, 2009 | bamboo, gardening, transplanting
A customer writes:Hi, Sherry. I’ve been missing your column in the “Slantinel”. They’ve been making so many changes in the last few months. Did you ever get a book published?I have a question. I’ve got to move some of my bamboo; I made...
by Sherry Boas | Aug 16, 2009 | bamboo, compost, customer comments, gardening, health
A customer wrote to say:My father and I came to your nursery a couple times to pick up some bamboo and we found you to be very helpful. He had purchased bamboo from Kanapaha yearly sale and although that bamboo is doing well, the bamboo he bought from you is really...
by Sherry Boas | Apr 3, 2009 | bamboo, gardening, hedge, landscape
The three Seabreeze clumping bamboos above were planted 5′ apart in May 2008 from 3-gal size plants. The hedge is now approximately 14′ tall. When the bamboos were first planted in May, each plant was about 6′ tall and only had one cane. When they...
