Feb 26, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
If you’re relatively new to bamboo, you might be looking for a popular variety that’s easy to recognize and quick to grow. Perhaps someone recommended growing Golden Bamboo. Or maybe you came across it in a magazine and thought it would look great in your...
Jan 28, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Botanists classify bamboo as a subfamily of grasses, alongside corn, wheat, blue fescue and ordinary sod. But when you see a towering grove of bamboo, growing more than 100 feet tall, it’s hard to think of it as a grass. Of course, not all bamboo varieties get...
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...
