Taro & Ti Bamboo

This weekend ended up being a boo weekend. I potted up the Henon I got from JM Bamboo, potted up my yearling Moso seedlings, and today I went out to rescue the boo that was suffering at the back of my property.

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I recently got some Giant Grey Henon from JM Bamboo. It arrived in wonderful shape! The box took an act of demolition to get apart and the root-ball was bagged them shrink-wrapped - not a speck of loose dirt in there. The boo was pretty happy too. Since the weekend I got it was very cold and miserable, I just plopped it, wrapped root-ball and all, in our east-facing picture-window and left it there for a week.

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Welcome to Taroandti.com. I am a big bamboo fan. There are no end of uses for bamboo, it’s easy to grow, with care fairly easy to contain, and is just pretty to behold. I like giant boos and landscape boos and will focus primarily on those. I don’t like clumping bamboos and will not write much if any about that.

My ultimate goal is to frame my greenhouse and tropical/sub-tropical beds with a towering bamboo forest. Giant Grey Henon, Vivax and perhaps Moso will play a part. I have some very young Moso seedlings and Henon and will soon have Vivax as well. It takes a long time for large bamboo to get large, but it’ll be a lot of fun along the way.

As a fringe benefit - I really like bamboo shoots. To compliment my other bamboos, I plan on planting some sweet-shoot bamboo - a bamboo that produces shoots that require less cooking to get rid of bitterness.

Stay tuned - lotsa boo fun ahead…