Florida Bamboo Forum

A few weeks ago I decided that I had too many pots of bamboo in my yard (at that time I had 80 pots of bamboo in my tiny back yard). So over the last two weekends I have been planting like crazy at my farm. I put 28 plants in the ground, most of them were 15-25 gal pots. My back yard started looking much better. I also realized that with all of the clumping bamboos, palms, citrus, etc. that I have to plant at the farm that I'm not going to have room to plant the runners that I had collected over the last 4 years, so I started adopting them out to friends. Two weeks ago I had 14 different running varieties. I am now down to one. A 25 gal pot of Ph. viridis 'Robert Young' is the sole survivor of my downsizing frenzy. I have no idea what I'm going to do with Mr. Young, but I figured I needed to keep one running type around. Maybe I'll upsize him to a 200 gal pot, and just let him be.

I am now down to 39 pots in my yard... over 1/2 way done. I'm going to continue planting for the next couple of weekends, hopefully getting down to only having 20 or so pots of bamboo in the yard for the winter, and then plant out the rest next spring.

Statistics: Posted by mantis — Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:13 pm — Replies 8 — Views 129

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Come on out to Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens and enjoy the fall Garden Faire.

http://www.hcp4.net/mercer/gardenfaire/index.htm

Garden Faire
Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
Sunday, September 26, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Garden Faire is held the fourth Saturday and Sunday in September and features regional plant societies, local artists who specialize in garden art, and garden-related authors. Garden-related art, books, and plants are available for purchase.

Statistics: Posted by Bamboo Outlaw — Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:29 am — Replies 0 — Views 16

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I have recently returned from Ecuador where I bought split guadua poles to ship
to my home in Tampa, FL to use as a fence. Does anyone know of importation restrictions
(basically USDA requirements). A friend in Guayaquil can have them fumigated or whatever
prior to delivery to the freight forwarder. Thanks
Mike Gray

Statistics: Posted by mikegray01 — Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:37 pm — Replies 0 — Views 7

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a few weeks ago i divided several plants some of them i guess didnt get enough root system to keep the plant green so i cut them back to the second node and kept watering them. i just noticed some putting up shoots (hurray) and the ones that didnt put up shoots are growing little green branches amongst the brown dead looking plants! is this because there were no buds to put up shoots? ive never seen this before. im impressed!!! what amazing plants

Statistics: Posted by gunner — Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:02 pm — Replies 2 — Views 17

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