Jan 14, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
When you select a species of bamboo for your landscape, one of the most important criteria is always going to be the climate. Most gardeners who want to grow bamboo in North America will look for temperate varieties. There are, after all, dozens if not hundreds of...
Dec 24, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Green Living
When looking for bamboo, your first instinct is probably not to head for the hills. But there is a surprising variety of bamboos which are native to the mountains of both Africa and Asia. As the name should tell you, the genus Himalayacalamus comes from the same great...
Dec 15, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Charming Mexico, famous for Mayan pyramids, flourishing cacti and dizzying tequila. And somewhere between Chichen Itza and Margaritavilla, you can also find North America’s greatest selection of indigenous bamboo species. Of the five continents with native...
Nov 9, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
If you walk into a bamboo nursery or a botanical garden and see a specimen labeled Bambusa vulgaris, and another identified as Bambusa chungii, you might assume that Bambusa is the genus that includes all species of bamboo. But in fact, it’s one of about 100...
Oct 21, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
If you tend to think of bamboo as a giant grass from Asia with hollow stems, and roots that will run rampant all over your well-tempered garden, then it’s time to learn about the genus Chusquea. While most of those assumptions may be pretty accurate most of the...