Oct 27, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Worldwide
A wonderland of verdant forests, fairy tale villages, and modern cities, Germany has almost everything the culturally curious tourist could ask for. But if it’s tropical beaches and warm sunshine you desire, then you’ll want to look elsewhere. Famously...
Oct 18, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, land of Liberty, home of the Patriots, and birthplace of the American experiment we call Democracy. The region is steeped in Colonial history, but one of the last places we would associate with bamboo. Even so, bamboo can...
Oct 11, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Bamboo has an amazing variety of uses. From nutritious bamboo leaf tea to high octane bioethanol to ultra-durable building material, there’s almost nothing bamboo can’t do. And with around 1,500 distinct species, bamboo also comes in an enormous variety of...
Oct 4, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
The amazing and incredible properties of bamboo have earned this useful plant all sorts of superlative nicknames. Because of its remarkable tensile strength, it sometimes goes by the name “Vegetal Steel”. In developing countries and near the equator, where...
Aug 27, 2021 | Bamboo Species
Perhaps you’ve heard people whispering about it in forums and chat rooms. Maybe you’ve even seen photos of it on social media. So what exactly is Purple Bamboo? We call Purple Bamboo an “online phenomenon” because that’s the one and only...
Aug 25, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
There’s a new bamboo species on the scene. And it’s not quite like anything we’ve seen before. It’s called triple hybrid bamboo, and it’s something of a triumph of horticultural ingenuity. It might be also a harbinger of more incredible...