We are able to ship our product to Canada and some overseas countries.  If you would like to purchase from us and you live outside of the U.S.  please contact us to find out more.   Please provide us with a shipping address  so that we can quote you an estimate to ship your order.  Once approved, we will invoice you online and you can pay online with a major credit card.   All prices are in U.S. dollars.   Generally, for small, retail orders you will pay a little more for UPS  plus $25.00 for a Phytosanitary Certificate, per order, not per plant.  This certificate is mandatory and required by  most Departments of Agriculture in all countries.  We arrange for the certificate and inspection of your plants on our end.  It takes about one week to obtain the certificate once your order is placed and paid for.  If for some reason we are unable to obtain the certificate we will issue a full refund for the plants and certificate.   

International Buyers – Please Note:
Import duties, Phytosanitary Certificates,  taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost.   Additional shipping charges will apply.   These charges are the buyer’s responsibility.
Please check with your country’s customs office to determine what, if any, these additional costs will be prior to buying.

Here are some actual samples of what our product looks like.  Keep in mind that the time of year makes a difference as to how a plant looks.  On a one year old bamboo cutting it will look small starting the second year, until they begin to shoot out new culms.   One year old cutting will fill out rapidly, doubling in height, when they begin to grow in the second year.   Most all our #1 size plants are one year old cuttings.  

   
Sample of  a #1 (one gallon) size  plant.  This is not the actual 
plant that you will recieve.  These are one year old cuttings in
the picture.  Giant timber will be larger, dwarf bamboo will be
smaller.

Sample of a #2 (two gallon) size plant. 
This is not the actual plant that you will
Recieve. This is a two year old cutting entering
its third year of growth..

The first day of spring is still two months away but it seems like it is already here!  We are  having a long stretch of spring like weather here,  55 °F and sunny  almost every day for two weeks. 

Late winter is a good time to divide up any containers of bamboo that you may have. 
The tools that you will need to do this with are very simple,  a saw, either a hand saw or a reciprocal saw, and a pair of pruners.  We use a cordless reciprocal saw here to cut through the bamboos that are grown in containers.  It is much faster, taking only 5 to 10 seconds for an experienced employee to half or quarter a five gallon size plant.  But a hand saw will work fine if you have just a few plants to divide.  Take the plant you want to divide out of the pot.  You may have to cut it out of the pot if it is root bound.  The best plants to divide are the root bound ones.  Younger plants tend not to have enough material to divide.    A root bound bamboo will hold its roots together much easier as your saw is cutting away at the soil and root mass. 

Generally you can find a natural line through a plant to make a cut.  Don’t worry about losing some culms as you are cutting.  It is not unusual to cut off some of the culms as you cut.  It is more important to keep the rhizomes intact than the culms.  Try not to damage the culm buds that are on a rhizome as you are cutting.  They will be next seasons new culms.   Some times it is necessary to cut off the terminal end of a rhizome.  After a rhizome has stopped growing for the season, if the tip has not shot up out of the ground it will not do so next year either. 

 You may see some of your leaves starting to curl up on you after you have divided your plant.  It is OK to remove some of your culm tops.  Cutting back a culm will help preserve the plant.

Well, fall is here and we get a lot of emails on how to prepare bamboo beds for the winter. The answer usually depends on where you live. Mulching your beds in winter is the most important thing you can do to protect your bamboo rhizomes, regardless of what part of the country you live in. In extremely cold areas or for newly planted bamboo one needs to mulch heavily to protect the rhizomes. In mild winter areas bamboo would benefit from a layer of an organic fertilizer such as a manure. In the Pacific North West fall is the best time to mulch. Here at the nursery we mulch heavily with oak leaves that are donated to us every year from a neighborhood school.

We haul in yards of leaf material that we use to cover our beds. Not only does this help to keep roots warmer during the winter, it also helps to suppress winter and early spring weeds. The leaves usually last into late spring or early summer and help us reduce the amount of herbicides that we have to use. The leaves also help us reduce the amount of irrigation that we need to apply during  spring and early summer.  If possible, re-apply mulching in the late spring to  reduce the need for herbicide and irrigation in the summer.  In the hot South and South West, applying mulch year round will keep the roots and rhizomes cool.  Bamboo does not like to have its roots over heated by direct sun.  Young plants will benefit from mulching.  As your plants mature, they will naturally shade their roots and produce their own mulch, eliminating some need to mulch.  Here are two great articles on mulching from the Oregon State University Extension Service:
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/story.php?S_No=1005&storyType=garden
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/story.php?S_No=981&storyType=garden