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 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...
