The 17th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival will be held at Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin, Texas on Saturday and Sunday, August 22-23, 2009.
Hours are 10 am - 6 pm on Saturday and 10 am -5 pm on Sunday. Admission is free. City of Austin Parking $3.
"Nuture Nature Caring for Bamboo"
There will be bamboo plants, crafts, spun bamboo clothing, musical instruments, bamboo beads, buttons, jewelry and bamboo poles for sale, a live bamboo plant and object auction at 3 pm on Saturday and many bamboo experts on hand to share their bamboo knowledge. The Annual Meeting of the Texas Bamboo Society will be held at 5 pm on Saturday.
Full details are posted at: http://www.bamboocentral.net/bamboofestival17.html
17th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival Schedule
Saturday, August 22, 2009 -
Festival Opens 10:00 am - Bamboo Sale Begins
Bamboo Presentations:
10:15 am
"Bamboo Applications & Species Selection: Getting It Right!" Presentation by Jinji Willingham, Bamboo Logic - For Landscape Architects & Designers, Interior Designers, Realtors, Urban Planners, Commercial Developers As Well As Residential and Commercial Property Owners - Discussion covering the growth habits of clumping bamboos and species selection for commercial and residential properties, urban vs. rural properties, above-ground containers, and living fences. Jinji will also address how to access the right circumstances for establishing a leptomorphic (running) bamboo.
11:30 am
"Light Requirements of Bamboo" - Presentation by Harry Simmons - Harry studied Tropical Horticulture at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand. His thesis focused on evaluating horticultural quality and light requirements of 7 genera and 20 species of bamboo.
1:00 pm
"Bamboo Landscape Design and Management" - Presentation by Ian Connor, Landscape Designer Specializing in Ornamental and Rare Forms of Bamboo - Ian is from Portland, Oregon and has served as past President of the American Bamboo Society. He will share his extensive experience working with many different species of bamboo http://www.connorbamboo.com/catalog.htm
3:00 pm Live Auction - Bamboo Plants and Bamboo Objects -
Auction Coordinator Grady Magnum
Partial auction list
3 gallon Bambusa Lako "Timor Black Bamboo" donated by George Shackelford - Bamboo Source
7 gallon Bambusa wamin "dwarf Buddah's Belly" donated by George Shackelford - Bamboo Source
7 gallon Dendrocalamus Giant Parker donated by Chuck Caldwell, Caldwell Nursery
Bambusa oldhamii "Kanapaha' donated by Kinder & Mary Len Chambers
Book: Bamboos of the World -1990 Indian edition
5:00 pm Annual Meeting of the Texas Bamboo Society
6:15 pm Dinner catered by the Bamboo Garden Restaurant
Reservations required $16 per person
Special Bamboo Presentation by Ian Connor
Sunday, August 23, 2009 -
Festival Opens 10:00 am - Bamboo Sale Begins
11:30 am
"Bamboo in the Landscape" Presentation by Judith Bussey - Judith is President of the Newton Garden Club and has presented bamboo programs around the state and at the state convention of the Texas Garden Clubs. She is an avid gardener and flower show judge and is surrounded by numerous species of bamboo in a wooded area of East Texas.
1:00 pm
"Bamboo Landscape Design and Management" - Presentation by Ian Connor, Landscape Designer Specializing in Ornamental and Rare Forms of Bamboo - Ian is from Portland, Oregon and has served as a past President of the American Bamboo Society and has extensive experience working with many different species of bamboo http://www.connorbamboo.com/catalog.htm
2:30 pm
"Bamboo 101" Presentation by Jinji Willingham Bamboo Logic
Jinji is a bamboo horticultural consultant & educator, landscape designer, and garden coach and serves as Bamboo Curator and Community-Builder at Casa de Luz, Center for Integral Studies, where she offers seminars and tours of the Bamboo Garden.
3:30 pm
Bamboo Hoop Making Demonstration and Workshop by Carole Meckes
Learn how to make bamboo hoops using a bamboo splitter, a mallet and a froe.
5:00 pm Festival Closes
Bamboo Plant Vendors:
Bamboo Bend
Bamboo Source - Varner Creek Nursery
Caldwell Nursery
Simmons Family Farms
bambootexas.com
Bamboo Craft Vendors:
Bamboo Branch
Bamboo Logic
Harjo Flutes
RM-Collectibles.com - Crafts from Mt. Fuji, Japan
Spirit Mama - Spun Bamboo Clothing - 50% off
Waterstones
Special Bamboo Festival Sponsors:
Golf Cart Sponsor: Caldwell Nursery- Rosenberg, Texas
Texas Bamboo Society Chapter of the American Bamboo Society
The 17th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival is the annual fund raiser for the Texas Bamboo Society Chapter of the American Bamboo Society, a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization. Proceeds are used to provide research, information, education, assistance to public bamboo gardens, support for bamboo artists, and to bring new varieties to the multi-state region represented by the Texas Bamboo Society.
Contact person:
Carole Meckes, Festival Coordinator
phone 512-929-9565 or email
Bamboo Festival Information: http://www.bamboocentral.net
Official Texas Bamboo Society site: http://www.texasbamboosociety.org
17th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival
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