Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens March Mart

Bamboo Outlaw · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:07 pm

March Mart is coming up. Below is a list of the bamboo that will be available.

http://www.hcp4.net/mercer/marchmart/index.htm

Friday and Saturday,
March 27 and 28, 2009
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Name:

"Bambusa chungii “Barbelatta”
- Blue Bamboo "
"Bambusa chungii
- Blue Bamboo "
Bambusa dolichomerithalla “Silverstripe”
Bambusa emeiensis "Flavidovirens"
"Bambusa eutuldoides “Viridivittata”
- Lemon Lime"
"Bambusa lako
- Timor Black"
"Bambusa malingensis
- Sea Breeze Bamboo"
Bambusa multiplex 'Alphonse Karr'
Bambusa multiplex "Green Hedge"
Bambusa multiplex “Fernleaf”
"Bambusa multiplex “Riviereorum”
– Chinese Goddess"
"Bambusa multiplex “Silverstripe”
- Lucky Silverstripe"
Bambusa multiplex 'Golden Goddess'
"Bambusa Mutabilis
-Richard Waldron Seedling"
Bambusa nana
"Bambusa oldhamii
- Giant Timber"
"Bambusa pervariabilis ""Viridistriatus""
- Sunburst"
Bambusa sp. Richard Waldron
"Bambusa textilis “Dwarf”
– Rockledge Gardens"
"Bambusa textilis Gracilis
- Graceful Bamboo"
Bambusa textilis Maculata
"Bambusa textilis
- Kanapaha"
"Bambusa tuldoides
- Punting Pole"
Bambusa ventricosa 'Kimmei'
"Bambusa ventricosa
- Buddha's Belly"
Bambusa vulgaris "Wamin"
"Bambusa vulgaris ""Vittata""
- Painted"
"Dendrocalamus minor ""Amoenus""
- Angel Mist"
"Gigantochloa atroviolacea
- Tropical Black"

mantis · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:53 pm

Wow! That is a nice list of plants. I already have the vacation time cleared with my work, so I'll be there bright and early Friday morning.

mantis · **Posted:** Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:33 pm

Ok, that list is difficult to read in it's current form, so I reformatted it. Yes, I'm bored again at work. :lol:

Bamboo Outlaw · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:54 am

Thanks. It came across bad from Excel.

Roy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:16 am

Bamboo Outlaw wrote:

Thanks. It came across bad from Excel.

I'm glad when Mantis gets bored. :lol:

bambookid524 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:39 am

Me too!
Although it may make him not as productive at work, he sure is productive on here!

Roy wrote:

Bamboo Outlaw wrote:

Thanks. It came across bad from Excel.

I'm glad when Mantis gets bored. :lol:

mantis · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:26 pm

Roy wrote:

I'm glad when Mantis gets bored. :lol:

Well, lets see what kind of trouble I can get into today... :laughing1:

Bamboo Outlaw · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:42 pm

The bamboo list was finalized last night. I added (1) D. a. Hitam. We are bringing in a lot more numbers of the plants already listed. This will be the best selection and numbers of bamboo offered at March Mart.

mantis · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:28 pm

I am really excited for March Mart. Now that spring is in full swing I have the bug to get out and play with bamboo.

ghmerrill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:04 pm

is it that spring is here, or now you have more room to plant!

mantis · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:12 pm

ghmerrill wrote:

is it that spring is here, or now you have more room to plant!

Closing is in 10 days!

I think it is a combination of a bunch of different things... land for sure, but also that Bamboo Outlaw and myself have been busy preparing for March Mart starting back around October.

Also, last weekend we spent Friday digging up some bamboo, and then preparing cuttings for the monthly Mercer bamboo meeting. Saturday we spent at Mercer Arboretum doing some grove maintenance, and then potting up the cuttings. Sunday we planted the digs from Friday. A full weekend of bamboo work.

ghmerrill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:15 pm

WOOO HOOOO!

10 days, then you get to lug water around by the bucketfull.... come August were are going to be hearing a different tune :lol:

a full weekend of bamboo sounds like fun! what do you guys do with the cuttings for the mercer meeting? do they go to members, use as display, or educational how-to?

that would be cool.... have a bamboo club, kind of like a desert club where everyone brings a division and gets togeather to share......

mantis · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:36 pm

ghmerrill wrote:

what do you guys do with the cuttings for the mercer meeting? do they go to members, use as display, or educational how-to?

The cuttings have 3 purposes. 1) Grove maintenance... cut out the leaning, ugly culms to make the clumps look better. 2) Teach the members how to properly cut/divide/propagate bamboo, so they can try it on their own plants. 3) Produce plants to sell at the Mercer sales throughout the year to raise funds for the gardens.

On occasion the members will get to bring something home. The January meeting we divided some B. ventricosa, and everyone who wanted a small division was welcome to take one.

I see the meetings as a way to educate people about bamboo, and help out the arboretum by maintaining their groves.

Bamboo Outlaw has much more experience with the meetings (I've only been attending for a couple years now), so he'll have a better explanation of the "mission statement". This comes from Mercer's website:

"Mercer Bamboo Meetings: Fourth Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon. Monthly meetings feature hands-on training in Mercer’s bamboo garden."

ghmerrill wrote:

that would be cool.... have a bamboo club, kind of like a desert club where everyone brings a division and gets togeather to share......

Took me a second to figure this out. :lol:

That is a neat idea, but I'm guessing some people would feel bad because they'd show up with something rare, like Sunburst, and get a Golden Goddess in return.

ghmerrill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:07 pm

but if you did not have golden goddess, and had lots of sunburst.....

:lol:

okay, I guess you are right... be kind of like when I was part of our local reef tank club locally, and we would have frag swaps..... some of the newbies would show up with algae, or mushroom polyps to share.... somone always felt bad for them though, and by the end of the meeting, they usually found someone who would give them something cool, or trade them out of what they brought, and dump it into a holding tank or something :wink:

got to encourage the newbies too!

Arachnotron · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:57 pm

Great, I'm working 12 hour shifts those days.

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