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
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...
Nov 3, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
If you tend to think of bamboo as a giant grass from Asia with hollow stems, and roots that will run rampant all over your well-tempered garden, then it’s time to learn about the genus Chusquea. While most of those assumptions may be pretty accurate most of the...
