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Bamboo Chopsticks: Safe, natural and sustainable
Bamboo has played a starring role in Asian culture and cuisine for thousands of years. Perhaps this legacy is most evident in the use of bamboo chopsticks. Simple, elegant and functional, bamboo chopsticks are a true icon of the Far East. However, the majority of the...
Bamboo in Costa Rica: A tropical treasury
If you're heading off on a round-the-world tour of bamboo destinations, Costa Rica might not be the first place on your list. You'd probably be more interested in going to China, Bali and even Colombia. But this narrow strip if Central America is well worth a visit....
Bamboo etymology: When rhizomes pose an epic risk
If you tell your neighbor you're planting a grove of bamboo in your backyard, be prepared for a variety of responses. Maybe they love bamboo as much as I do, and they'll want to slap you a high five. But maybe they're terrified by bamboo's famously spreading rhizomes,...
10 More clumping bamboo species
Based on the flourishing popularity of our recent post on clumping bamboo species, we decided it would be a great idea to do a follow-up. Bamboo has something of a lousy reputation in a lot of gardening circles. However, as with most cases of prejudice, bamboo's...
Best Bamboo Bedding for quality and price
The average person spends about one third of their life in bed. That's around 20 to 30 years in most cases. But I'm not suggesting that you are an average person. Like most of our readers, you're probably very well-informed and have exceptionally good taste. Which is...
Exotic Bamboo Wildlife: Bamboo sharks
Bamboo is a woody grass with more than 1,400 species growing naturally on five continents. It has been flourishing in a wide range of habitats since the late Cretaceous period, roughly 100-66 million years ago. So that makes bamboo as old as the dinosaurs. Only a few...