Jul 29, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening
Bamboo is a remarkable plant that is both attractive and useful. I like working and crafting with it because it’s strong and lightweight. And if you’ve ever sawed through a bamboo pole to make something as simple as a garden stake or a curtain rod, you...
Jul 22, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
We typically think of bamboo as the woody grass (in the family Poaceae) with the hollow stems. This is one of the notable characteristics of bamboo that makes it relatively easy to recognize. But there are a few varieties of solid bamboo whose stems, surprisingly, are...
Jul 14, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Webster’s Dictionary defines timber as wood prepared for use in construction or carpentry, or trees grown for that purpose. Bamboo, however, is not a tree. All species of bamboo belong to the grass family, Poaceae. Whether it’s a dwarf bamboo, just a few...
Jul 8, 2019 | Agriculture & Gardening
Inner wisdom In addition to being a giant grass associated with tropical climates and the Far East, bamboo is famously hard and hollow. Its hollowness helps make the bamboo lightweight and flexible. You will also find that bamboo is much easier to saw through,...
May 29, 2019 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species
With all the talk about bamboo construction and building houses from bamboo, a lot of people are asking: What are the best varieties of bamboo for building? In fact, most botanists recognize more than 1,200 species of bamboo, or as many as 2,000 cultivars. And while...
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