Live Bamboo Auction - 3 pm - Saturday August 22, 2009 17th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival - Zilker Botanical Garden - Austin, Texas Preview of Auction Items: 3g Bambusa Lako "Timor Black Bamboo" donated by George Shackelford, www.bamboosourceonline.com 7gal Bambusa wamin "dwf Buddah's Belly" donated by George Shackelford, www.bamboosourceonline.com Close up of Bambusa wamin "dwf Buddah's Belly" donated by George Shackelford, www.bamboosourceonline.com Book - Bamboos of the World - This is the 1990 Indian edition with 1,010 pages - donated by Selby Clark 7 gallon Dendrocalamus 'Parker's Giant' Bamboo - donated by Chuck Caldwell, Caldwell Nursery 'Parker's Giant' is a giant form of Bambusa beecheyana - The book says it gets 50" tall, 5" canes and is tolerant of 15 degrees F. It has massive, thick culms. Bambusa textilis 'Kanapaha' - donated by Kinder and Mary Len Chambers -This species grows larger than the normal Bambusa textilis in Florida (50 feet tall, 2.5 inch diameter culms, tolerates 18 degrees F. From the Kanapaha Garden in Gainsville, Florida. Otatea fimbriata - donated by Tejastropicals.com Guadua aureocaulis - donated by Tejastropicals.com Bambusa chungii 'Barbellata' - donated by Tejastropicals.com Bambusa eutaldoides 'Viridivittata' - donated by Tejastropicals.com Pleioblastus distichus - donated by Tejastropicals.com Pleioblastus fortunei - donated by Tejastropicals.com Pleioblastus chino 'Murakamiensis' - donated by Tejastropicals.com Pleioblastus shibuyanus "Tsuboi' - donated by Tejastropicals.com Moso piece from the historic grove at Avery Island, Louisana - donated by Carole Meckes - Bamboo Arts & Craft Network Crocheted Purse with Bamboo Rhizome Handles - donated by Margie Krebs-Jespersen Set of 3 boxes with bamboo motif (boxes fit inside one another) - donated by Margie Krebs-Jespersen Woven container with lid decorated with bamboo strips - donated by Margie Krebs-Jespersen Bamboo Back Scratcher - donated by Margie Krebs-Jespersen Do you have a bamboo plant or item that you would like to donate to the Texas Bamboo Society Auction? Please contact Grady Magnum, Auction Coordinator - email Cash, checks, MasterCard and Visa Accepted ********************************************************************************************** The 17th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival is the annual fund raiser for the Texas Bamboo Society Chapter of the American Bamboo Society, a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization. Proceeds are used to provide research, information, education, assistance to public bamboo gardens, support for bamboo artists, and to bring new varieties to the multi-state region represented by the Texas Bamboo Society. The 17th Annual Texas Bamboo Festival is sponsored by the Texas Bamboo Society **********************************************************************************************