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...