Appalachian Bamboo News and Pictures

July 2020:

We went to Kentucky this summer and visited the creation museum. I didnt know they had a beautiful Asian garden. It inspired me and my boys to create something similar at the house (although we are still in the planning stages) At least I have the bamboo covered. Included some pics below.. They had used yellow groove and Spectabilis as the main bamboo types. I will add some pics of our garden when it is completed.. its going to be a while I also need to procure an excavator.

The bamboo at the center of the picture is spectabilis there is also some yellow groove

Here are the boys.. they are actually exicted about the project. They want lots of Koi in the pond.

 

A small bamboo water feature.. It is a staple of many Asian gardens

The bridge was great.. overall it was a beautiful and serene garden.

 

 

June 2020:

rained a lot this week so I used the time to update the website with some new pictures. First off here is a picture of my daughter who was helping take the pics, teenagers are experts at picture taking. She is standing next to some green stripe vivax shoots that are over 4 inches in diameter and 25 ft tall (these came up about a month ago)

 I have a road cut through a grove of bamboo. One side is yellow groove and the other side is nigra henon.

My daughter took a picture of me walking ahead that i didnt know she took. I guess posting it was the price to let me post one of her.

Had some really impressive Japanese timber bamboo come up this season. These new shoots are huge nearly 5 inches in diameter.

The boys got a small ATV for Christmas so I used a small excavator to cut a 4 wheeler trail through several groves. The first is red margin. The grove leans toward the sun. Its the only type i grow that leans. The other trail pics are Vivax and Nuda

And finally some random pics of the greenhouse that i recovered this spring and some dwarf david bissett used as a privacy screen above the pool...

 

Spring 2020:

 I can't believe its been a year since I last updated the news. Ive taken a lot pictures over the past year but just havent posted them. Covid 19 hasn't slowed down the bamboo planting at all. Just delivered a bunch of Yellow groove to Asheville and my daughter and I installed it. I usually don't don't have time to install but being laid off from my 9-5 job last week should give me a lot more time :) The corona virus shut down all our school programs so we should go back when this is over. Here's a couple pics from today

 

Some pics from other deliveries: first time using a fed ex pallet box. the plants touched the ceiling but they crammed them in the truck

We visited the Knoxville zoo a few months after they had installed the bamboo i delivered. Here we are in front of some the plants

Finally a red panda at the zoo that was munching on some bamboo

March 2019:

Finally doing an update. Since the last update I have sent another big delivery to the Asheville nature center, and many loads of large field dug. Here is one load going out to Knoxville that took the dump truck and the trailer. These were about 15 feet tall and the rootballs weighed about 50 pounds each.

Winter 2018: Zoo Delivery!

seems like there's never  time to do website updates. I need to train one of my kids on web design so they can take over and I can spend more time outside digging bamboo. It's been a very cold winter and a very busy one. Normally there are few orders in January and February but it seems a lot more folks than normal are interested in bamboo this winter. I recently had an order from the Knoxville Zoo. It was very exciting, as ive always wanted to work with a zoo and have my bamboo enjoyed by thousands of visitors. Special thanks to the Knoxville Zoo for choosing Applachian Bamboo as a supplier. My mom and dad delivered for me because I had to work, but they got some pictures. Here is the zoo entrance..closed for winter

The zoo staff helped unload the trailer

Few more pics


 

Summer 2017: Biggest order ever this year 175 yellow groove going to the Asheville Nature Center. The nature center wanted to establish a quick bamboo grove to be used as feed for the red pandas they expect in the next few years. The horse trailer was packed as full as i could get it and the bed of the truck was also packed full. They should have a grove very quickly

 

 

March 2017: Extremely busy this spring with lots of interest in Bamboo. Im sitting here in the computer chair too sore to move. Dug 35 field dug with a shovel today. It flurried snow all day and right as I finished the snow really started coming down. Took a picture of a flowering pear tree in the yard with big white flakes coming down. (the snow didnt show up very well in the pic)

Here is a load of field dug Giant Japanese Timber. Tom from South Carolina is coming tomorrow to pick them up. Along with some other varieties.

This load is going out for delivery to Asheville NC next week. Ive got 2 field dug order to deliver to Asheville.

January 2017: Been meaning to update the news months now but kept putting it off. Four kids involved in every school sport there is. Working full time in a human services job, running a mini-storage business, and digging bamboo is more balls than I can juggle sometimes. So far its been a very mild winter, maybe the Moso and Black will survive this year. We are just about too cold here in the mountains for these two varieties. Ive got lots of bamboo i need to dig and lots of projects I need to complete. I plan on doing a better update soon with some pictures. ~Gabe

May 2016: Had several visits but only got pictures of one. Mr. and Mrs. Reed came over from East Tennessee to pickup several different types of field dug. These are 15ft tall or larger plants with large burlapped rootballs. They had 8 different varieties if I remember correctly.

Also snapped a picture of a pen holder that my parents made from a section of Green Stripe Vivax. This piece was close to 3 inches in diameter. Countless crafts and useful items can be made from bamboo.

March 2016: Spring is just around the corner and I need to be digging bamboo but with 4 kids involved with every sport under the sun there is little time. I was walking on the fitness trail at the local high school last week and snapped some pictures of a huge grove of native bamboo. It is commonly referred to as river cane and can grow about 15ft tall. Here is a pic of the grove to the lest of the trail. It is very dense. It needs some cleaning up to remove dead canes and such but it is still awesome. I also included a pic of the grove from a distance. It is at least a thousand feet long. The last pic is a closeup of the canes.

 

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