Vancouver Island bamboo society/grow team?

[CJW]

Hey there I was wondering if any of the other Canadians on this forum in around BC would be interested in making a bamboo grow team?
We need something like this around here. A team dedicated to the growing of bamboo experimentally, maintaining/planting large groves, tracking culm heights..etc etc


Anyone interested?

[Booboy]

Sounds like a great idea. Im up here in Nanaimo. I know a couple others that would be interested as well. Let me know if you need any help or ideas.

Morris

[CJW]

I was thinking about making a group that would be a collective that would join all VI bamboo nuts from this page and others to some sort of a group. Of course we'd need a logo. We also would be involved in public education about how bamboo's qualities make it a true plant for the future. Bamboo is an erosion control/preventer, a source of food, a source of wood, a POTENT air filter, and an air conditioner, and can even be used in electric lamps. No other plant can do what bamboo can!

My area of knowledge stems from living in Japan and seeing how temperate species are used in constriction and everyday life/for food. I also have studied specific varieties native to Japan and where they grow.

[BooKing]

What part of Japan did you live in? I spent a good amount of years there too. In HongKong, bamboo use and construction was amazing too as well as the Philippines.

[CJW]

I started off in Nara, close to Todaiji..downtown Nara, then off to way up in Tohoku Sendai, Miyagi ken then I lived in Osaka/Kyoto awhile, near an area called Ibaraki which is 15-20 minutes outside of Kyoto pref. The other places I have been are around Kyushu (saw stands of Kinmeimoso in their natural habitat) and Iwaji-jima home of Meguro-chiku.

I was going to school in Kyoto while I was living in Osaka and Nara.

[bambooweb]

I just got back from Vancouver Island last night and I have a suggestion.
You could contact Butchart Gardens ( www.butchartgardens.com ) and offer to help them get rid of their bamboo mite problem. I was disappointed when I saw all of the mite damage on the bamboo.

I am also wondering what is up with planting so many different bamboo so close to each other? They have P. nigra, P. aurea, P. aureasulcata and others only a couple of feet apart.
They also have at least one planting that is between the roots of a large tree. I don't know how they will contain it without harming the roots of the tree.

I did like the lighting effects of the up-lights with the green filters in the middle of their larger bamboo plantings.

[CJW]

I just got back from Vancouver Island last night and I have a suggestion.
You could contact Butchart Gardens ( www.butchartgardens.com ) and offer to help them get rid of their bamboo mite problem. I was disappointed when I saw all of the mite damage on the bamboo.

I am also wondering what is up with planting so many different bamboo so close to each other? They have P. nigra, P. aurea, P. aureasulcata and others only a couple of feet apart.
They also have at least one planting that is between the roots of a large tree. I don't know how they will contain it without harming the roots of the tree.

I did like the lighting effects of the up-lights with the green filters in the middle of their larger bamboo plantings.

LOL, Butcharts is a joke.. well for bamboo at least. They cram everything together get the wrong plants and call it a Japanese garden. It is kinda shameful. Also it doesn't matter how many suggestions you give them they don't seem to care. Simular situation to the HPC/ Glendale gardens except in this location they don't even feed or water properly, nor give the specimens enough space to grow properly. What a pissoff! .. . The bamboo to see is at Uvic and at Maddicks farm. Both are decent groves. Uvic has a huge grove of Madake, and maddicks has got a somewhat mature grove of P.Nigra Henon

Mites are a widespread problem here, but none of the species of mites are known to cause direct damage to the bamboo except to the foliage.
Safers soap kills them dead.

[Cactus Joe]

I live just outside of Vancouver and would be very interested. I know some people interested in bamboos who belong to the Pacific Northwest Palm & Exotic Plant Society. There isn't a local Bamboo interest group as such.

[CJW]

I live just outside of Vancouver and would be very interested. I know some people interested in bamboos who belong to the Pacific Northwest Palm & Exotic Plant Society. There isn't a local Bamboo interest group as such.

A BC bamboo society.. ok, thats better than VI bamboo only.
We need a statement about what this group will be about and our mission statement.

hmm.. any ideas?

[BooKing]

How about LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT of BAMBOO.

[Roy]

How about LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT of BAMBOO.

Might not have the same ideological meaning outside of the USA.

[BooKing]

yea, I know...

[CJW]

How about LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT of BAMBOO.

Might not have the same ideological meaning outside of the USA.

Hows this : Bamboo, growing to the future?

[BooKing]

Or, Live Long, and Don't Flower!

[CJW]

Or, Live Long, and Don't Flower!

Or throw engrish into the mix.