by Sherry Boas | Mar 31, 2015 | new shoots, running bamboo, vivax
It’s spring and that means the running bamboos are shooting! New bamboo culms are emerging at an astonishing rate. Below are three pictures of one particularly beautiful specimen – Phyllostachys vivax huangwenzhu, which we call Green-Gold Vivax Timber...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 18, 2014 | running bamboo, vivax, wildlife
Vivax is our favorite running bamboo! A grove of beautiful VIVAX TIMBER BAMBOO (Phyllostachys vivax) looks like the type of place where you’d find a panda nibbling away on leaves and shoots.Sun shining through a mature grove of vivax timber...
by Sherry Boas | Mar 17, 2011 | running bamboo, vivax
A restful spot in the Vivax groveThe Vivax Timber Running Bamboo (Phyllostachys vivax) began sending out new shoots toward the end of February. In the picture above, a small shoot can be seen in front of the right chair. Spring is an exciting time of year...
by Sherry Boas | Mar 7, 2011 | running bamboo, seabreeze, vivax
It is exciting to watch new shoots emerge and grow taller day by dayA customer who recently purchased some Vivax Running Bamboos and some Seabreeze Clumping Bamboo sent this email:I was busy most of the weekend so I didn’t get out Saturday to check on them....
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 | Mar 9, 2010 | running bamboo, vivax
Yesterday on a walk around the lake, Ralph snapped these photos of me posing with the ‘boo. Above and below I’m standing in a grove of Vivax Timber Running Bamboo (Phyllostachys vivax). Vivax is one of my favorite running bamboos because...
