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 | Apr 29, 2010 | bamboo questions, blue bamboo, mulch, vivax
A customer wrote: We bought a Vivax and a Blue from you last fall. Both came through the winter with no damage and have already sent up bunches of new canes this spring. They are so pretty and so much fun. Every day, we go look just to see what’s...
by Sherry Boas | Apr 18, 2010 | bamboo questions, clumping bamboo, fertilizing, mulch, transplanting, water
A customer from the Orlando area who recently purchased and installed several Blue Timber (Bambusa chungii) clumping bamboos wrote with a few questions:Hi Sherry, How are you? I hope this finds you doing well. I am writing to ask some specific...
by Sherry Boas | Apr 3, 2009 | bamboo, fertilizing, gardening, mulch, water
A customer in Orlando asks:I’ve been reluctant to put down a lot of pine bark so as not to interfere with new canes coming up. Am I being too careful? Inasmuch as I planted the bamboo November 1, am I being too careful in waiting til May 1 to apply Dynamite again? I...
