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11 Best Books about Bamboo: For a Growing Library
Bamboo literature for your library or coffee table Here at Bambu Batu, we’re just crazy about bamboo. Perhaps you knew that by now. We grow it, we wear it, we eat it, and we read about it. As one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history, you can believe there...
Running bamboo: Why must you run?
Bamboo has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the fastest-growing plants on earth. Indeed, some tropical varieties can grow more than a meter a day in the growing season. Pull up a cozy chair and you can actually watch it grow. Running bamboo has earned a...
Phyllostachys ‘Henon’: Giant Gray Bamboo
So you're ready to plant some bamboo, and you want to make a bold statement with it. But finding the optimum species isn't so easy. When you peruse the species list, the names are hard to pronounce and equally difficult to remember. And recommendations like giant...
Dwarf Bamboos and Groundcovers
We usually think of bamboo as a giant grass, the fastest-growing plant on earth. And that it is. But there are also dwarf bamboo varieties that make for excellent ground cover, borders and accent pieces. In the Amazonian undergrowth, you can actually find bamboo that...
Repotting your bamboo: Transplants and divisions
We admire bamboo for its strength, its resilience, and its tenacious will to live. Not only is it the most useful and versatile plant on earth, it's also the fastest-growing. Bamboo is beautiful to look at as well, with its tall, elegant culms and its tufts of...
How many species of bamboo are there?
When it comes to bamboo trivia, few questions are more frequently asked or more inconclusively debated. How many bamboo species are there? Most authors and experts agree that there are approximately 1,500 species of bamboo. Occasionally, you may come across a claim...