May 20th, 2003

Today we begin working on an up coming Field Specimen order for several home owners in Dalton, GA.. They are working together to establish a privacy screening behind their properties. An unsightly building has been put up where beautiful woods once grew. This is an on going problem we encounter as our once wooded environment is being clear cut every day. Bamboo with its many uses once again is found to be the solution. These plantings will begin the foundation of a thick privacy screen which with proper care can be achieved within a few short years. The heights of these FS range from 12 to 18 feet. The root balls are 14 to 20 inches across with the average weigh of 50+ lbs per plant. These will be watered daily for the next 25 days when the group will arrive to pick them up. They took advantage of one of our FS Packages which offers 'wholesale' prices on three different species.

May 14th, 2003

Here is the latest! It was pouring down rain today, but the load has to be delivered in two days. The truck is being loaded with over 100 giant field specimens of P. nigra 'Black', P. vivax, P. viridis, P.h.p. 'Moso', S. fastuosa 'temple', P. aurea 'golden' and P. aureosulcata 'yellow groove'. This delivery will cover over 1400 miles and is the second load for this repeat 'bambusero'. Just loves our bamboo divisions!

May 10th, 2003

Below photos of our delivery to Memphis, TN this week. It was a great trip and our new bamboo friend was very happy with the bamboo as you can tell. She is ordering more for privacy on the back and side of their beautiful property. The 68 divisions below were just for her bird aviary. Construction is on going on the 600 square foot aviary. It will have in ground plantings of the bamboo and the outside will also be surrounded by bamboo. The new home for her parrots will provide them with natural surroundings. Jennifer rescues birds and is providing a great contribution to the bird and plant world. She travels all over the U.S. to help these beautiful birds and now is providing them with lush bamboo foliage to play in!

May 2nd, 2003

Here we are digging in one grove we own in adjoining Tuscaloosa County, AL. This grove is Phyllostachys rubromarginata and provides several hundred divisions yearly. We are currently digging 700 of the 3 gallon divisions for an order. Roger Jr. prepares to begin digging on the back side of this large grove. After four hard days we had dug over 700 of the 3 gallon divisions. We are headed back home after four trips to baby these for a couple of months.

April 28th, 2003

Yesterday Roger Jr. and Rachel returned from Knoxville, Tn. They delivered 140 divisions to two customers. Busy time of year with the mail orders and several more large Field Specimen deliveries pending. Below are photos of 90 large field dug specimens going to Orlando next month. This is the second large order for this bamboo lover and we all are looking forward to adding these beautiful divisions to his yard. These range from 8 to well over 20 feet depending in the species. The bamboo and root ball average from 60 lbs. to over 100 lbs! A large portion of our business is repeat customers who after shopping around find our bamboo divisions and prices great!

April 21th, 2003

Photographed this little fellow (tree frog) this morning taking it easy in the bamboo grove.

April 12th, 2003

Here are the latest photos of a customer pickup this past week and load one ( 67 Field Specimens) of two going to Memphis in a few weeks.

Part one of delivery to Memphis below

April 11th, 2003 ------( Panda news below)

I hope to post new pictures in the next few days of three large orders we are preparing to deliver. We are as excited as our new bamboo friends to have each of these orders and look forward to taking our bamboos to their new homes.

One order consisting of 140 of the 3 and 5 gallon bamboo divisions will go to Knoxville, Tn. in two weeks. One consisting of 90 FS going to Orlando, Fl. for a repeat customer in May. This order will consist of 8 different species and I will photograph many of them to share with you.

The last being a two part trip delivery going to Memphis, Tn.. in May. This one will end up being several hundred FS divisions. They are purchasing P. nigra 'Black', P. viridis 'Robert Young', P. aurea 'Golden', I. tessellatus and a lot of P.nigra Henon 'Giant Gray'.

We just learned the Memphis Zoo received their new Pandas this past week after a long wait! Our bamboo friend customer informed us about this and since we were a big supplier of bamboo for the Pandas she chose us as her source. You can see our bamboo delivery to the zoo on the 2002 Bamboo News page. We delivered over 500 divisions to the Memphis Zoo on Jan.11 of last year and are still proud to have been a part of this large operation to feed these beautiful bears!

Hope you will check back for upcoming photos of the kind of bamboo we supply.

March 27, 2003

Roger Jr. and his wife Rachel are in St. Louis, Missouri today delivering this bamboo. The 18 Field Specimens of Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'yellow groove' have a new home and should do very well there. These were topped to around 16 feet in height with 14 to 18 inch root balls for transport to their location. We have mail ordered and delivered a lot to this area and this species proves to do great there. This delivery was 522 miles one way and out of my range now days. However Roger Jr. is more than willing to work with anyone that needs bamboo and happy to deliver long distances.
 

March 13, 2003

New shoots of several species are emerging as the ground warms. The P.h.p. Moso and many of the Sasa species are shooting. I hope to have time to post a few photos of the big ones. Today we finished loading our large size Field Specimen divisions for delivery. This size is custom ordered and each weight between 125 to 200 pounds. The canes averaged 2.5 inches in diameter and were topped to a height of 26 feet.  As you can see in the four foot wide trailer,  three root balls reach all the way across! It took two trucks and one trailer to deliver these 20 divisions. The small Toyota bed could only hold five plants this size.

Feb. 15 & 16, 2003

Here are a photos from the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the American Bamboo Society. We always try attend these meetings and this one was great with over 60 members and guest attending. This annual meeting is always at the Coastal Gardens and Bamboo Farm in Savannah, Georgia. The bamboo collection is extensive with plantings going back to the early 1900s. Frank Linton whose is in charge of these gardens showed us around once again. He is one of the early collectors of bamboo with a lot of knowledge on growing bamboo in the coastal plain soils. He had done a great job of grooming the groves for this meeting and everything was just beautiful! It was good to visit with Frank again and we look forward to next year's meeting with all our bamboo friends. We hope you enjoy the pictures and think about joining the American Bamboo Society.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Jan. 30, 2003

Below are pictures of this week's delivery and Gayle in the 'Moso' grove. In the truck are 14 'Moso' FS and 8 smaller divisions that we were preparing to unload. It was another long trip taking us 1140 miles through 5 states.