by Sherry Boas | Aug 4, 2013 | bamboo barriers, bamboo care, FAQ, maintenance, planting, transplanting, watering
Scroll down to learn about the following:How do I plant my bamboo?When is the best time to plant bamboo?Will bamboo grow better in sun or shade?What is the fastest growing bamboo?How far apart should I plant my bamboos?What type of maintenance does bamboo need?Do I...
by Sherry Boas | Mar 3, 2011 | bamboo questions, creating hedge, running bamboo, transplanting
Running bamboos like cold climates. They will grow taller and have larger diameter canes if grown in cold climates instead of warm ones. Although this stand of Vivax running bamboo is covered in icicles during the winter of 2009, it wasn’t damaged at...
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 | Aug 5, 2010 | bamboo questions, clumping bamboo, fertilizing, transplanting
A customer from Riverview, Florida who purchased several Green Hedge clumping bamboos (Bambusa multiplex ‘Silverstripe’) emailed to say:About 4 years ago I bought some bamboo from your lovely property. We love it and it did everything you said it would. It...
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 | 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...
