Melbourne Cup long weekend

Bamboo Creations attending Gisborne and Foster

A big weekend is coming up.  We have 2 different markets so we will be able to speak with twice as many people about this wonderful plant - Bamboo.  On Sunday we are at our local Gisborne Market and we are also traveling down the coast to Foster.

The Foster market is held at the Foster Showgrounds and runs from 8am until 2pm. Foster is a lovely drive down the South Gippsland Hwy, past beautiful ocean views and is close to Wilsons Prom.  This market has over 200 stalls that sell home produce, arts and crafts and beautiful plants.

The Gisborne market is held at along the service roads of Hamilton and Aitken streets and on Howey Reserve from 9am - 2pm. While visiting Bamboo Creations enjoy the 250 other stalls from delicious food to other products for your home, kids and pets.

We have also tried to make it easier for people to visit our Nursery.  We have altered our website to move the Opening Hours further up the page to make it easier to see.  Due to the many markets and other events that we attend, the opening hours may change from time to time. We try and cater for all our customers but things do change.  Keep an eye on our page to see all the events that we are attending and also the Nursery Hours.

Murrumbateman this weekend

Murrumbateman Field Days

The bamboo van is being packed with lots of Bamboo related products and heading for Canberra. The Murrumbateman Field Days event in on over this weekend (17th and 18th October). Murrumbateman is just out of Canberra on the Barton Hwy.

This event started in 1979 and has been growing every year since.  The event now has over 400 exhibitors so there should be something for everyone.

Bamboo Creations Victoria will be showing their versatility as they will be taking several kinds of deciduous trees.  The picture above shows a couple maples at a previous exhibition.  We like to show and stock other types of plants that complement Bamboo. 

Nepalese Blue Bamboo

Spring is upon us so now is a good time to plant bamboo but remember to keep it moist and fed.  In addition to the deciduous trees, we will be taking to Murrumbateman Nepalese Blue bamboo. Nepalese Blue bamboo has blue grey tinted culms with fine long narrow soft leaves. Ideal for small gardens, or as a ornamental screen. This bamboo has a maximum height of about 4 metres and is a clumping type of bamboo.  For more information please visit our Nepalese Blue Bamboo page: www.bamboo-plants.com.au/bamboo-products/nepalese-blue-bamboo.php

Horticultural and Garden Festival this weekend

Bamboo Creations at the Horticultural & Garden Festival

The huge 3 day Horticultural and Garden Festival is on this weekend at the Melbourne Showgrounds. It is running from 10am to 5pm on Fri and Sat and 10am to 4pm on Sun. The focus of this festival is Growing, Gardening and Cooking.

Bamboo Creations Victoria will be at this event showing the power of Bamboo.  This is such a versatile plant with many uses from screening out neighbouring buildings to creating a living green fence.  This is different from other screening plants due to the speed in which it grows. Within a couple of years it can grow to a point of providing privacy.  Take for example GRACILIS This is a very popular bamboo and can reach a maximum height of about 8 metres. It is a clumping type of bamboo that can be used as a wind or privacy screen.  It can even be trimmed into a fantastic green hedge.  We have seen this plant used in many different ways. Have a look at our photo gallery on our website to see how other people have used Gracilis and other types of Bamboo: www.bamboo-plants.com.au/bamboo-photo-gallery.php

The festival has many different exhibitors and a schedule of speakers.  The speakers will be speaking on many different topics.  A very special talk will be taking place at 3:30 on Friday as Garry from Bamboo Creations Victoria will be talking - "Bamboo in the landscape and its many uses".

We will bringing our van full of different types of bamboo and other bamboo related products. Come along and say G'Day.

Gracilis, Alphonse Karr and many more going to Mt Macedon

Gracilis and Alphonse Karr being featured at Mt Macedon

We will be setting up this week for a wonderful weekend at Mt Macedon. The annual Plant Lovers Market and Open Garden is on this weekend.  It is so big that it will be open all weekend (over both the Sat 19th and Sun 20th).  The event is held at Bolobek, the historic working cattle property renowned for its magnificent garden.  Bolobek and the Plant Lovers Market is found at 370 Mt Macedon Road, Mt Macedon, Victoria , 3441.  It will be running from 10am - 4pm each day so make sure you drop by and say Hello.

We will be taking many different varieties of bamboo and many other different bamboo products to the Mt Macedon Plant Lovers market this weekend (Sat 19th and 20th Sep).  A couple of beautiful bamboo being featured this weekend is Gracilis and Alphonse Karr Bamboo.

Gracilis
Gracilis is a great screening plant that can block out neighboring buildings.  Its fast growing nature means that you will have a green living screen in no time at all.  In the right conditions this bamboo has a maximum height of about 8 metres so can block a 2 storey building. It is a clumping type of bamboo that can withstand cold and hot temperatures so is perfect for the Victorian climate.  For more information visit our Gracilis webpage: www.bamboo-plants.com.au/bamboo-products/slender-weaver-bamboo.php

Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr bamboo is another great screening clumping type of bamboo.  This has a maximum height of about 4 metres that looks great as a stand alone ornament plant or can be used as a hedging plant. For more information on Alphonse Karr bamboo then check out our Alphonse Karr  information page: www.bamboo-plants.com.au/bamboo-products/alphonse-karr-bamboo.php

Yes we are heading to Murrumbateman

Bamboo Creations are going to Murrumbateman

Very exciting news. We had originally removed Murrumbateman from our list of markets and expos.  Due to popular demand we have now decided to attend this excellent event.  We will now be taking our van full of bamboo products up to Canberra.

The Murrumbateman field days event is run over 2 days from the 17th to the 18th of October 2015.  It runs from 8am to 5pm on the Saturday and 8am to 4pm on the Sunday so you will have plenty of time to see it all especially us at Bamboo Creations Victoria.

Murrumbateman is about 30 minutes out of Canberra. Our website has a link to the Murrumbateman event for more information (www.bamboo-plants.com.au/our-markets-and-expos.php#murrumbateman) including details on how to get there.

This is a huge event which is why it is held over 2 days.  There are over 400 exhibitors (including us) and it raises a lot of money for the local community.  Come along and say Hi.

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

Big events coming up

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.