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Exotic bamboo varieties for your garden
With so many varieties of bamboo to choose from for your garden, one can easily develop an obsession. As you become a connoisseur of grasses, the quest for unusual and exotic bamboo specimens can become an endless pursuit. We've already written a great assortment of...
Deep Meaning of Panda Bears and Bamboo
In the annals of fables and folklore, almost every animal carries with it a certain symbolism. The owl is wise, the elephant is known for its memory, the lion is brave is mighty. But what about the meaning of the Panda Bear? It's pretty impossible not to love the...
Bamboo in Chinese Medicine
The history of bamboo and its relationship with humans traces back many thousands of years. And the majority of bamboo species are endemic to Asia and the Far East. It comes as no surprise then to find bamboo playing an important role in traditional Chinese Medicine....
How to support bamboo research
Bamboo is an amazing resource with tremendous promise. But in order for it to remain competitive in the global marketplace, we need to continue supporting bamboo research. Sure, bamboo has been around for a zillion years. (OK, maybe only 40,000 or so.) But in this...
Bamboo for ecology: Planting for a greener planet
Bamboo is widely touted as a superior resource for its versatility and renewability. And rightly so. Unlike trees that can take decades to mature, bamboo can be suitable for harvest within just four or five years. And from there it can become a building material, a...
Do not panic. You’re still a Sagittarius.
"I'm telling you, THIS is why astrology is a bunch of BS! You're telling me that all of a sudden, I'm just magically a different sign, all because some yahoo from the mid-west finally realizes that the earth has shifted? I don't buy...." Man, he wouldn't stop. My...