November 15th: Had some more visitors this fall but as usual forgot to get pictures. Had a cold snap last week with temperatures in the low teens. Had to bring some of the more sensitive varieties into the greenhouse. Less cold hardy types include Moso, Black, Arrow, and Robert Young. The really cold hardy types such as Yellow Groove I can leave outside in pots for the whole winter (unless it just gets abnormally cold and decides to stay that way for weeks) Took a picture of some canes of Robert Young below. These started out totally green this spring and have turned yellow, leaving only random green stripes. This is a fairly new variety for me. Ive had the grove about 5 years and had never dug any for sale until this year.

September 13th: Visit today from Cara and her husband. My twin boys took the opportunity to get in the picture as well. They had 5 large field dug Henon which should give a good start come spring. It was nice to meet them and thanks to my dad for reminding to get a picture

 

September 10th: Well it has been a busy summer and I havent gotten to update as much as I would like. I have had several visitors but my chronic forgetfulness didnt allow me to get pictures. I was up in my dad's pasture where I have a few groves planted and noticed something was stripping all the leaves that were reachable from the bamboo. After much searching I found the culprit!

So I had to build some makeshift fences around the groves until I can get the smaller plants dug and potted

Threw in a random pick of a small stream with groves on either side and a thick groundcover bamboo on the right side. I like how these different size bamboo create a lot of variety along the stream.

 

June 2nd: It rained hard last night and all this morning. It was getting a bit dry so Im sure the bamboo and the garden are appreciative. One of my boys and I were walking around taking a few pictures after the rain stopped. Many of the shoots that came out of the ground only a few weeks ago are over 20 feet tall. Many of the Green Stripe Vivax canes you see here are 5 inches in diameter.

Here's a bit closer shot

Still a lot of water standing in a low spot. The grove on the left is Yellow Groove and the right is P. Nigra Shimadake.

Check out how thick this Yellow Groove

And finally another pic of the awesome screening power of bamboo the area behind the pool has a wall of green.

 

May 11th: Shoots everywhere!! Nearly everything is shooting now. Snapped a few pictures this morning. The first (on the left) is P. Nuda, which has some of my favorite shoots. These first poked out of the ground just a few weeks ago and are now over 10feet tall. The picture on the right is a Green Stripe Vivax. The shoot is about 4 inches in diameter.

 

Here are some Moso Shoots from a small grove (picture below on the left). Notice how the shoots are already taller than the original plants. More GSV shoots on the right