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Sherry Boas

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Finding the right bamboo for your landscape or building project can be confusing. If you have questions, we'll do our best to answer them. We can be reached by calling 352-429-2425 phone or by email to: Jennifer@Beautiful Bamboo.com

MEET JENNIFER BAEHNE

Jennifer Baehne

Ralph and I feel very fortunate to have Jennifer helping us at Beautiful Bamboo. She's the person you'll meet when you visit, call or email the nursery. Let Jennifer show you around and answer your questions about which bamboo would best meet your landscaping or bamboo project needs.

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Indocalamus tessellatus – a dwarf running bamboo

by | Apr 23, 2010 | new shoots, running bamboo


Indocalamus tessellatus is a dwarf running bamboo that we first discovered in Seattle, WA.  Like all running bamboos, Indocalamus loves cold weather.  Is it freezing outside?  No problem.  Snow on the ground?  Bamboo happy.  Here in Florida where it doesn’t snow and winter temperatures only occasionally drop into the high teens/low 20s, running bamboos do well but they don’t grow as tall or as large a diameter as they will in a colder climate. 

At Beautiful Bamboo, we’ve planted Indocalamus tessellatus around two mulberry trees in our demonstration gardens. 


The bamboo creates a beautiful ground cover around the tree.  We keep it from spreading by simply mowing around the circle of bamboo.  Every spring new shoots appear.  In Florida that means new shoots emerge in late February and continue through early April.  By now, at the end of April, all of this year’s shoots will have already popped out of the ground.  From now on they put their energy into growing taller and leafing out.
 
A new shoot begins to leaf out


And continues to grow bigger…

And bigger

New shoots tend to emerge along the outer edge of the existing bamboos.


Forming an attractive green ground cover around the mulberry tree.



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A Message from Sherry

Sherry Boas

We love to talk about bamboo!

Finding the right bamboo for your landscape or building project can be confusing. If you have questions, we'll do our best to answer them. We can be reached by calling 352-429-2425 phone or by email to: Jennifer@Beautiful Bamboo.com

MEET JENNIFER BAEHNE

Jennifer Baehne

Ralph and I feel very fortunate to have Jennifer helping us at Beautiful Bamboo. She's the person you'll meet when you visit, call or email the nursery. Let Jennifer show you around and answer your questions about which bamboo would best meet your landscaping or bamboo project needs.

Like us on Facebook where you'll find more information and photos about bamboo!

Are you enjoying this site?

If you enjoy reading the Beautiful Bamboo Blog, you'll love the stories in Sherry's two books, Rowing Through The Mist: The Everyday Pleasures of Simply Living and my newest release, Simply Wild: Untamed Wonders Large and Small

Click on image to read excerpts from Sherry's first book

Sherry’s Second Book