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October 08 Bamboo Headquarters Events

October will be a festive month of special bamboo sales for us. On Monday the 13th we will be offering small to medium sized plants of the most colorful and exotic at the San Diego Horticulture Society Meeting in conjunction with a program “Bamboo, the Earth and Us.” For more information go to http://www.sdhortsoc.org/meetings.htm. The cost is $5.00 for non-members.

Then on Saturday the 25th we will offer a large cross section of all our bamboos at the much-anticipated sale by San Diego Chapter of the American Bamboo Society, which also features an auction of rare bamboo. One can often find species that have been newly introduced from other countries after undergoing rigorous inspection and approval by the USDA. For further details visit http://www.abssocal.org/calendar.html.

This event is free to the public!

New Exotic Plant Collection

For those of you who do get the chance to visit our nursery you will be amazed at all the new bamboo companions we’ve gathered together this year. We’re now offering a full array of exotic flora from all over the world, most notably Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We’re really showing them off, as you can see from how different our front entrance now looks! We hope some of you will find the time in your travels to visit us.

New Running Bamboo Garden

In May 2008 we installed an entire new demonstration garden dedicated to running bamboos. The site has 14 beds, each planted with different species and surrounded with rhizome barrier. This running bamboo garden will be used to illustrate the ease of installing the barrier while adding to our already awesome collection of mature in ground specimens. As most of you bamboo lovers have learned, there’s a BIG difference between looking at pictures of mature bamboo and seeing, hearing and feeling the real deal! Please stop in for a personal tour if you are in the area.

More Great Bamboo Photos

We recently received two great sets of photos from our website visitors! The first set is from Mac T., who is building a “Bamboo City” in San Pablo – Laguna Philippines a must pit stop for travelers.

Bamboo Hut

Bamboo Stairs

Bamboo Chair

Here’s a beautiful grove of Phyllostachys vivax that started from five transplants in 2001. Some of this year’s culms in the mature grove were 33+ feet. The grove is just east of Kingsburg, CA.

Phyllostachys vivax

Vivax Bamboo

Phyllostachys nigra progress

We had a kind customer from Ventura County, CA show us the progress of their Phyllostachys nigra:

We would love to see how your bamboo garden is doing! Send us email through our Contact Form and we will send you an address to send back your bamboo photos. Every so often we have gardening contests, so stay tuned!

That’s Bamboo? Wow!

Squidoo is a hand-built collection of half a million informational webpages built and ranked by people using the web. “That’s Bamboo? Wow!“, the #4 ranked webpage for News on Squidoo, features the picture of Macy that we posted a few weeks ago:

Thanks to the creator of this Squidoo page for posting this picture and creating a wonderful compilation of bamboo information!

Black Bamboo Shoots

The Gianettos (one of our Bamboo Garden Contest Winners!) were kind enough to send us photos of their first shoots of spring! This is also a great example of the effectiveness of rhizome barrier in controlling the spread of running bamboos.

These shoots will be roughly double the size of the current plant, creating a nice thick screen by the end of summer

Shoots coming up at the edge of the rhizome barrier.

Macey Loves Bamboo Shoots

Did you know that the shoots of most bamboos are edible? Some are tastier than others and thus more widely cultivated for culinary use. Apparently our nursery mascot, Macy, recognizes that Phyllostachys bissetii is one of the first species of the genus to shoot in spring and he definitely finds them to his liking! The cultivar pictured is the dwarf form of P. bissetii which is smaller and even hardier (-15F/-26C) than the species, staying under 18′ (5.5m). The overall look is a deep forest green color with culms that contrast in lime green to yellow. Both the specie and the dwarf make striking potted specimens!

As you can see, this is the perfect time of year to start planting bamboo! Order online or give us a call toll free at (866) 293-2925.

Photos from the San Diego Home and Garden Show

Last weekend we celebrated the beginning of Spring in Southern California by bringing our office crew, and a cross section of our finest plants, to the 23rd annual Home and Garden Show in Del Mar. In addition to the Garden Marketplace of nursery displays, this 3 day extravaganza featured two huge exhibit halls filled with over 1400 exhibitors running the gamut of every industry related to home embellishment that you can imagine. There was also an additional building dedicated primarily to landscape displays on various themes done by the Garden Masters. This is always a great venue for getting a feel for what homeowners in our locale are seeking and a chance to personally invite them out to our display gardens.

As you can see in the photos, we have a new mascot we’ve nicknamed Moso. She was created by a local sculptor who also happens to be a good friend of ours. Moso not only fits right in with the plant decor, but she also likes to travel so you’ll be seeing more of her in the future. And if any of you would like to have your own custom metal sculpture please let us know and we’ll get you in contact with the artist.

For those of you who missed us at the Del Mar show, you can look forward to seeing us at the upcoming Flower Fields Exotic Plant Sale on May 2-3, the Encinitas Garden Festival also on May 3rd and at the California Grown Show in Pomona on June 4 with subsequent nursery tour days on June 5 and 6.

Bamboo Photos Updated

We know that a picture is worth 1000 words, so we try our best to keep our photo library up to date. If you have a great photo of a particular bamboo, be sure to use our Contact Form to get with us, we will send you an email address where you can send the images. We’d be happy to post it on our website!