Tropical Bamboo®, Inc. is a progressive, 9 acre nursery and public garden specializing in tropical, clumping bamboo plants. The nursery is based in Loxahatchee, (Palm Beach) Florida.
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- Location:
- Loxahatchee, FL, 33470
- Phone:
- 561-784-2413
- Mon - Sat:
- 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
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Saturday, November 28 at 6:00pm - Palm Beach County proposal to ...
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Tuesday, December 15 at 11:00am
Lonie McKoin We are looking for a source to purchase a large number of small starts of B Oldhamii or some other similar hardiness timber bamboo. We are in zone 9 and have some acreage set aside from timber production that we would like to plant in bamboo.
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Palm Beach without its privacy hedges? Surely not! But the island's ubiquitous ficus hedges are proving to be more problematic every season. Those that didn't topple over during hurricanes because of their shallow root system are vulnerable to an ubiquito
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A view of the bamboo hedge maze from above.
We were using a 40' man-lift to add holiday lights to our tallest bamboos.
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Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building has scheduled a public meeting to propose restrictions on "Black Bamboo" in Palm Beach County.
This has been developing for several months and we (Tropical Bamboo Nursery & Gardens) have been kept in the loop by concerned people within the Planning, Zoning, & Building depar...tment.
The source of this ridiculous proposal is a well-connected person who has a landscaping dispute with his neighbor. Apparently, the neighbor planted a "black bamboo" too close to the dividing fence and the bamboo is leaning over the fence. The neighbor refused to trim the bamboo away from the fence. Now the well-connected person has convinced his county friends to consider restricting or banning "black bamboo". Ignorance may be in play here as well. The thinking is that the term "black bamboo" was researched and it was discovered that black bamboo can be invasive. The problem is that the "black bamboo" they're researching is Phyllostachys nigra, a temperate bamboo that grows up north. The two most common black bamboos that grow in South Florida are Bambusa lako and Gigantochloa atroviolacia. Both are non-invasive clumping bamboos.
This issues boils down to a person trying to use his connections to solve his personal problem with a neighbor. It is not a plant problem - it's a "people problem". Clumping bamboos grow no differently than hundreds of other tropical plants in South Florida. There are clumping types of palms, heliconias, bananas, and many others. If this proposal succeeds by allowing any form of "black bamboo" restriction in Palm Beach County, there's no reason to think that there could be similar future restrictions on other non-invasive landscape plants.
Please try to attend this meeting on December 15th to help us defend against any consideration of black bamboo restrictions.
Time:11:00AM Tuesday, December 15th
Location:Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building
Ned Jaquith
Robert or Tracy,
What bamboo is in the photo of the small parallel hedges in your photos, and where is it?
Ned
