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2020 Bamboo Gift Guide
There's a fun song we've been singing with our kids recently to help them learn the months of the year. Even if you're well beyond the point of learning the months, you might still want to sing along. Cue the famous marching melody, and it goes like this: January,...
Mindfulness Hacks from the House of Bamboo
If there's anything I enjoy as much as bamboo, it's probably peace of mind. But in the year 2020, that's something awfully hard to come by. Between the germs, the lockdowns, the elections and the conspiracies, it seems like peace and tranquility have never been more...
Where does bamboo come from?
There's something magical and otherworldly about a thriving grove of bamboo. Surround yourself with this dazzling grass, and it has a way of transporting you to another time and place. Bamboo has an exotic feeling, and a connection with the far-flung corners of the...
Genus Chimonobambusa: Exotic Asian bamboo
Trying to learn every variety of bamboo can be a bit like memorizing every bone in the human body. While there's only 206 bones in an adult, the number of bamboo species is something in the neighborhood of 1,400, divided into roughly 100 genera. Botanists classify...
Shopping for bamboo plants
Browsing through the aisles of greenery at my neighborhood nursery is one of my all-time favorite pastimes. I know some guys would prefer to spend Saturday morning at the hardware store basking in the pleasure of latest power tools. But I'm far more at home grazing...
Growing bamboo in USDA zones 7 and 8
We tend to associate bamboo with tropical jungles and warmer climates. But there's actually an enormous variety of bamboo species, more than 1,200 in all, and many of them are native to more temperate latitudes and higher elevations. So even if you're trying to grow...