Friday 28 August 2015

Alphonse Karr

Knowing how your bamboo was propagated.
Be sure you are buying healthy propagated mother stock for true to form bamboo.
Alphonse Karr is a clumping varieties and it is one of the many favourite bamboos. because of its rapid growth, it's beautiful new culms that come out pinkish then turn lemon yellow with green stripes with emerald leaves Perfect for a hedge, Full sun, Frost tolerant, At full height it will get to 4 m high Can be trimmed to any height or thin out by removing canes and bottom leaves so that you can see the beautiful colour canes. Growing habits vase shape.
See shots below from locally grown propagated stock and Alphonse growing nicely in Riddells Creek Victoria  

Alphonse Karr Cutting by Bamboo Creations Nursery 
 Alphonse Karr,
Alphonse Karr June 2012 


Alphonse Karr, Aug 2011

Alphonse Karr, Aug 2011
Alphonse Karr Dec 2007


Alphonse Karr, Aug 2011
Alphonse Karr, May 2008


Monday 17 August 2015

Big events coming up

Bamboo Creations Victoria will be attending Mt Macedon Plant Lovers market and Horticultural and Gardening festival 2015
Bamboo Creations attending major events
We are getting ready for a couple of big events that are coming up over the next few months.  We will give you more details later but this is just a reminder to put these dates into your calendars.

Mt Macedon

The Mt Macedon plant lovers market is running on the 20th and 21st of September.  This market is held in Mt Macedon at the historic Bolobek and is hosted by the Mt Macedon and District Horticultural Society. The beautiful gardens of the historic homestead are reason enough to visit the market.  You then have many different plant growers and sellers including Bamboo Creations Victoria so the visit to Mt Macedon is a must for every Plant Lover.

Horticultural and Garden Festival

This is a 3 day event (9th - 11th October) held at the Melbourne Showgrounds. The main focus of this event is on Growing, Gardening and Cooking.  There will be many different plant growers and retailers as well as many different speakers and exhibitors.  Another great event to put in your diary.  Will give more details about this one and the Mt Macedon market in coming blog posts.

New Colours for some of our socks

We are always updating our online socks store with new products.  We have recently updated the colours of our business socks and our women's singlets.  Have a look at the exciting new colours available.  We will be reviewing the other products shortly and will have them available for you soon.