Moso Bamboo on Avery Island

[xXFleetlinerXx]

i love going to avery island

[DaphneLewis]

I am the person who made the video. I live several hundred miles away from the Avery Island Groves.

[CustomCarpentryUK]

What do you do with all this bamboo?

Is no one interested in making this a commercial crop for furniture making or something?

It is nice that you are bringing it back to life, well done!

Tristan Titeux

[DaphneLewis]

@CustomCarpentryUK

Hello Tristan, The bamboo groves belongs to a family that owns the "island" where it grows. They do not presently have a "use" for the bamboo. It is more like a collection/arboretum. Bamboo Society members do have a once a year work party to restore the groves to beauty.

[CustomCarpentryUK]

Hi @DaphneLewis, thank you for your reply, that is great that you are looking after this collection. I did actually come accross Bamboo Revolution who is hoping to grow the moso comercially, great news!

[DaphneLewis]

Hello Jungle Garden Flower, Thank you. I now have three more bamboo videos posted. Yesterday I cleaned a 28 foot by 28 square of Phyllostachys viridis Houzeau. I used my sulky dogs to pull the poles to the trash heap. Fun. And the grove looks great.

[Junglegardenflower]

Thanks, a great video. 

[GregWhiteHunt01]

Thanks Daphne,

Love your video. I missed seeing Marler and his niece Laura this spring. My Moso here is now four and five inch diameter. My music compositions featuring my hand crafted Bamboo flutes are getting a lot of radio play as the New Oasis World Sampler CD is out . Keep up the great video work. Greg White Hunt owner Bamboo Gardens and Music.

[DaphneLewis]

@GregWhiteHunt01 Hi Greg I better go see Bamboo Gardens and Music. Do you sell bamboo shoots as food? Do you know of someone who does?

Daphne

[GregWhiteHunt01]

@DaphneLewis Hi Daphne, We have never sold Moso shoots , little interest here. I do sell local specimen plants . I planted forty two varieties in 1990. Gardens are manicured. I produce the finest Bamboo flutes and published/copyrighted over eighty original tracks featuring my instruments. I use tropical long internode species for most of my flutes except for the Shakuhachi`s. Bambusa chungii "barbellata, Schizostachyum lima, B.M. silverstripe and textiles gracilis. Search my name to listen

[jgt126]

Very Nice Daphne,

It's rare for most of use to get to see a big grove of bamboo. I had only seen bamboo that big in Fiji. Thanks, Jack

[DaphneLewis]

@jgt126 Yes, the bamboo is gorgeous and there are 40 acres that have not yet been cleaned and allowed to be big and beautiful. Daphne the bambusero

[DaphneLewis]

You are welcome. There is much more bamboo work to do!

[CaroleBamboo]

Thanks Daphne for recording the event at Avery Island!