Apr 21, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Famously the home of cocoa beans, maize and a profusion of potatoes, South America also has its fair share of bamboo. In fact, anyone who believes that bamboo is only endemic to the Far East would be shocked to learn just how widespread it is in Latin America. South...
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...
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...
