May 27, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species
Bamboo is universally recognized as a plant with thousands of uses. It’s fast-growing, sustainable, strong, and versatile. For many centuries, people have used bamboo for food, for building, for furniture, for crafts, and endless applications. Bamboo is also...
Mar 22, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening
From food to flooring, bamboo has thousands of practical uses. But when was the last time someone brought you a bouquet of bamboo flowers? When was the last time you even saw a bamboo flower, for that matter? Perhaps never, because bamboo flowers are both infrequent...
Feb 5, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Featured Posts
The botany of bamboo is a vast and diverse world of its own. The Bambusoideae subfamily of grasses includes nearly 100 genera and more than 1,200 species. And to the casual observer, the majority of these grasses look strikingly similar. But if you’re trying to...
Oct 19, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Bamboo comprises an astonishing family of flowering grasses with nearly 2,000 species and cultivars in total. Some timber bamboo varieties are enormous, over 100 feet tall and a foot in diameter. Other dwarf and ground cover species thrive under the lower canopy of...
Sep 28, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Accurately identifying a bamboo species can be one of the greater challenges in the field of botany or gardening. Most anyone can recognize bamboo when they see it, but not everyone realizes how many species there are to choose from. (Around 1,500.) And when you ask...
