The Ultimate Bamboo Plant Place?! - Tiki Carving

P pariartspaul Member Martiniland, California Joined: Dec 20, 2003 Posts: 159	P pariartspaul Posted posted on Tue, Feb 3, 2004 9:51 AM Aloha you all! Thought I'd turn you on to this great place I found last year for bamboo plants. It's http://www.bamboosourcery.com/ and they're up in Sebastapol, Ca. They have about seven acres out in the middle of nowhere on this mountainside with tons of all kinds of rare bamboo growing in groves! I took a trip out there from Sacramento last year and bought a couple of speciment giant moso bamboo plants for our new backyard, and it's doing very well - it's amazing - with giant green poles. It's still young though, it takes some years to get a lot of really big ones. I'm taking a trip this coming weekend to buy a dozen 'Alphonse Karr' plants to create a screen in the back of my yard. They have the 1 gallon size for $20 each. I bought one of these a couple of years ago at a regular city nursery in the five gallon size and it was $150!! I'm still learning what to grow up here in Sacramento for a tropical look. I'd originally planned to screen the back of our yard with fruit trees I planted last year, but they haven't grown an inch since then. I bought some banana trees last Spring, but I think the frost killed them, they look dead. I have some queen palms I put in last year and they're doing fine. The few bamboo plants I put in last year are doing fabulous, I think they're good down to 10 degrees. We decided on this 'Alphonse Karr' variety because it's clumping, it grows about 15 to 20 feet tall and is nice and dense with beautiful evergreen leaves. Anyway, check out Bamboo Sourcery if you're in the market for unusual varieties, it's a great place and fun to look at all the different species on the website! http://www.pariarts.com [ Edited by: pariartspaul on 2004-02-03 09:55 ]

Aloha you all!
Thought I'd turn you on to this great place I found last year for bamboo plants. It's http://www.bamboosourcery.com/ and they're up in Sebastapol, Ca. They have about seven acres out in the middle of nowhere on this mountainside with tons of all kinds of rare bamboo growing in groves!

I took a trip out there from Sacramento last year and bought a couple of speciment giant moso bamboo plants for our new backyard, and it's doing very well - it's amazing - with giant green poles. It's still young though, it takes some years to get a lot of really big ones.

I'm taking a trip this coming weekend to buy a dozen 'Alphonse Karr' plants to create a screen in the back of my yard. They have the 1 gallon size for $20 each. I bought one of these a couple of years ago at a regular city nursery in the five gallon size and it was $150!!

I'm still learning what to grow up here in Sacramento for a tropical look. I'd originally planned to screen the back of our yard with fruit trees I planted last year, but they haven't grown an inch since then. I bought some banana trees last Spring, but I think the frost killed them, they look dead. I have some queen palms I put in last year and they're doing fine. The few bamboo plants I put in last year are doing fabulous, I think they're good down to 10 degrees.

We decided on this 'Alphonse Karr' variety because it's clumping, it grows about 15 to 20 feet tall and is nice and dense with beautiful evergreen leaves.

Anyway, check out Bamboo Sourcery if you're in the market for unusual varieties, it's a great place and fun to look at all the different species on the website!

http://www.pariarts.com

[ Edited by: pariartspaul on 2004-02-03 09:55 ]

Post #74276 by pariartspaul on Tue, Feb 3, 2004 9:51 AM