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...
Jun 16, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Based on the flourishing popularity of our recent post on clumping bamboo species, we decided it would be a great idea to do a follow-up. Bamboo has something of a lousy reputation in a lot of gardening circles. However, as with most cases of prejudice, bamboo’s...
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...
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...
Dec 27, 2018 | Bamboo Species, Bambu Batu, San Luis Obispo
Since Bambu Batu first opened in 2006, a lot of people have come in asking, “What’s a Batu?” Now we also call the shop the “House of Bamboo”, so a lot of people have guessed that Batu means House. And a lot of people try to spell it...
