Mar 27, 2024 | Bamboo Products
Green architects and conscious homeowners understand the many benefits of bamboo flooring. Strong, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing, it’s everything you could want from a hardwood floor. But if you’re in a temporary space, like a rented apartment,...
Mar 25, 2024 | Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species
The remarkable strength of bamboo has long invited comparisons to more industrial materials like iron and steel. And while certain more graceful and whispy varieties take on names like Seabreeze, Buddha Belly, and Umbrella Bamboo, a handful of the most formidable...
Mar 22, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening
From food to flooring, bamboo has thousands of practical uses. But when was the last time someone brought you a bouquet of bamboo flowers? When was the last time you even saw a bamboo flower, for that matter? Perhaps never, because bamboo flowers are both infrequent...
Mar 20, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
When bamboo gets into the ground, it can become notoriously indestructible. Of course, there are ways to keep it from growing into a menace. Rhizome barrier systems can be very effective, while cavalier efforts to kill it with bleach or gasoline are less so. More...
Mar 18, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry
To encourage the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the carbon credit trading system incentivizes farmers and industrialists to initiate and operate carbon-negative projects, rewarding them with monetarily valuable credits. At the same time, polluting...
Mar 15, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Genuinely majestic, Gigantocalamus malpenensis is a natural, intergeneric hybrid, a cross between Gigantochloa scortechinii and Dendrocalamus pendulus, found only in the forested hills of the Malaysian peninsula. Gigantocalamus malpenensis with its furry culm...
Mar 13, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Worldwide
So you’re in love with bamboo, and you just can’t get enough of it? Welcome to the club. My name is Fred and I’m a bambooholic. That’s right. Without my regular fix of noble bamboo grasses, I get terribly wound up. When the monotony of ordinary...
Mar 11, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening
If a little bit of bamboo is good, then a little more bamboo must be even better. So, when you’re growing bamboo, it’s natural to want to increase your numbers by propagating more plants. Maybe you have an unusually attractive species, and you want more of...
Mar 8, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Green Living
When looking for bamboo, your first instinct is probably not to head for the hills. But there is a surprising variety of bamboo native to the mountains of both Africa and Asia. As the name should tell you, the genus Himalayacalamus comes from the same great mountain...
Mar 6, 2024 | Eastern Philosophy
Bamboo is a plant like no other. Due to its size and stature, some call it a tree. In fact, botanists say it’s a grass. It’s strong, it’s flexible, it’s lightweight, and bamboo grows remarkably fast. So astonishing, words can barely describe...