Moving with bamboo...

16 years ago

After 6 years of bamboo growing at my current house, we will move. So what to do with my more than 50 species of bamboo?

Well, I carry them over. Today I am just done with the digging:

about 80 15-gallon and 60 24-gallon containers totally spending two weekends and some weekdays. I know, it is the worst time to transplant bamboo now - quite a bit of them dead.

I remember that I "won" the contest of "So Much Bamboo So Little Land."

and I don't think I can win it again: I will move to a property with 2.5 acer land but number of my species will grow:)

Here are some pics

Sort by:Oldest

Comments (6)

countrynest
16 years ago
You can go ahead and cry.
It would be a nightmare to move after all the work that you put into your 'boos.
coolshare
Original Author
16 years ago
Well, digging them was already a "nighmare". There are many
ones ahead: moving, keep them alive and replanting...

Next nightmare: renting a 24' truck and hopefully two more weekends (worst case: 4days x 3 trips x 13 containers but I think I can carry more than 13 a trip and maybe more than 3 trips a day).

What a boo life w/o time to cry :I am verifying: am I still young enough to play with boo?
Related Professionals
Baltimore Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers · Fort Worth Landscape Contractors · Hendersonville Landscape Contractors · Lancaster Landscape Contractors · Ronkonkoma Landscape Contractors · South Farmingdale Landscape Contractors · Addison Carpenters · Del Aire Carpenters · Miami Carpenters · Rancho Santa Margarita Carpenters · Auburn General Contractors · Montclair General Contractors · Mount Holly General Contractors · Mount Vernon General Contractors · Saint Paul General Contractors
naplesgardener
16 years ago
awesome bamboo and what an effort to take them with you.
I have just begun my obsession with bamboo and look around my tiny lot to see where I can fit more in.
thanks for the pictures and inspiration.
I pray no one can figure out where you live and steal your babies. In Florida it's common for landscaping to disappear and you have a fortune there.
hollenback
16 years ago
Looks like a nice job of potting them up. My back hurts just looking at all of the pots. :-)

Good luck with the move.

With that much land you should be able to grow over 200 species.

Bill
booboy
16 years ago
I see that some of your divisions are 20-30 feet tall. I would of cut everything to about 6-8 feet. Much easier to work with. Also much less chance of the plants going in to shock. You would have them back to their origional height in a couple of years at the new place. I like how you used those blue barrels. Did you have to pay for those?
coolshare
Original Author
16 years ago
booboy, the reason I left them 20' long since I like to kept those culms with leaves/branches. I bought the blue
things as 52-gallon barrels ($12 each) and cut them half.
I didn't realize that I would use up all of them (30+==>60++) and all my 100 15-gallon pots. My initial count was less than what I really moved.

countrynest, I did it this weekend! 37 miles between
my old and new home. I rent a 24'-truck and hired three strong guys. 3 trips in two days (14 hours a day) and 3 push cart were broken - we ended
up with having to pull/drag the last 7 blue ones by ropes since two carts all broken.
About 100 15-gallon and 70 24-gallons. We did carry those
20+' long ones over.

I think most of you won't leave them (like 2 24-gallone Hitam and 5 24-gallone plus 10 15-gallon vivax 'Aureocaulis' and so on...) behind when moving:)