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 | Jul 13, 2010 | before and after, clumping bamboo, creating hedge, hedge, landscape, new shoots
If you are looking for a bamboo that will provide a dense screen, buffer wind, block sound and tolerate winter temperatures that dip into the high teens, Bambusa multiplex Silverstripe is the bamboo for you. This extremely functional bamboo is also one of the...
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 | May 19, 2010 | before and after, clumping bamboo, creating hedge, landscape
These “Before and After” photos just arrived in my inbox from Orlando-area customer, Andy Roy. Hi, Sherry, I thought I’d share a couple of pics on the 1-year anniversary of our first bamboo planting. I put these 3 gallon bambusa...
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...