Nov 20, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
While we consider China and the Far East as the native home of bamboo, there are also some magnificent bamboo species indigenous to the New World. Central and South America actually have some of the most majestic bamboo varieties of them all. In Colombia, you can find...
Nov 15, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
It’s more than a mouthful for the average gardener, so you may need a silver tongue as well as a green thumb to pronounce Schizostachyum brachycladum. But don’t let that discourage you. If you enjoy decorative bamboo and live in a warm enough climate,...
Nov 13, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Botanists classify bamboo as a subfamily of grasses, alongside corn, wheat, blue fescue, and ordinary sod. But when you see a towering grove of bamboo, growing more than 100 feet tall, it’s hard to think of it as a grass. Of course, not all bamboo varieties get...
Nov 8, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry, Bambu Batu, Featured Posts
My name is Fred Hornaday and I’ve been active in the bamboo industry since 2006 when I opened America’s first all-bamboo boutique in San Luis Obispo, California. Since 2020, I’ve been committed to promoting bamboo cultivation and value addition and...
Nov 6, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Special thanks to Natalia Reategui, who contributed this article as a thoughtful response and addendum to an article that appeared previously here at Bambu Batu. In Thorny Bamboo: Bambusa blumeana and others, from last year (July 2022), Fred reflects on the identities...
