by Sherry Boas | Nov 24, 2014 | blue bamboo, edible bamboo, wildlife
Yesterday our crew was busy culling canes from a stand of Bambusa chungii. Objective: Remove enough leafy canes to fill a 12-foot long by 3-foot high trailer. The canes would then be transported to Tampa where they will be given to elephants in the Barnum...
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 | Jun 2, 2013 | wildlife
It’s true. I do love bamboo! I also love all the wildlife I see in and around our many bamboo-covered acres. Below are a few of my favorite photos of animals – large and small – taking advantage of Beautiful Bamboo.Blue dragonfly on...
by Sherry Boas | Feb 5, 2011 | birds, giant timber bamboo, wildlife
Ralph and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see this osprey fly in and land on a clump of mature Oldhamii bamboo. He’s perched on the thin tip of a cane that lost its leaves in the recent cold spell. Ralph and I might object to a few...
by Sherry Boas | Sep 17, 2010 | wildlife
A pretty Green Anole poses on a culm of Blue Timber Clumping Bamboo There are many lizards in Florida including this pretty little Green Anole, the only Florida native of the genus. I love watching these slender bug-eaters. I’m especially fond of...
by Sherry Boas | Sep 10, 2010 | wildlife
I had just finished helping a customer at Beautiful Bamboo when I looked up at the gazebo roof and noticed this little green treefrog on one of the poles.Green Treefrog on bamboo poleI love these small, cute frogs with the white stripe outlining their bright green...
