greetings looking for bamboo starts,,taller different colors ,,,,have a green tall starts one ,,and some ground cover type ,,looking for other colors ,,for trade or if there is nothing on my have list of interest to you postage stamps,plus postage,,,or my part of trade could be $$ let me know thanks GOD BLESS

I have some black bamboo(Ph. nigra)divisions putting up some fresh shoots now. I would be interested in any non-white water lilies. Chris

Most every body started the same way, Cliff, I've walked your path this year... and I couldn't agree more with you about Bambooplantation, I emailed and called about a dozen of mail order bamboo vendors all over the country, and Bambooplantation was by far the best, they sell good quality bamboos, you wouldn't beleive how tall those plants they sent! forget bidding on ebay, go with some place you can call on the phone who can give you the best answer and service right away... Do a lot of research on the Net before you spend a lot of money for bamboos, to know what kind of bamboo you want and what kind will survive the winter weather in your area, learn how to care for them... Follow this forum whenever you can, sometimes there will be some bamboo lovers like you and me will post a msg here with their surplus bamboo for trade... you can write to them and offer what you have for trade, and if you don't have plants to trade, you can offer them some fee and see if they can mail you some for a reasonable fee... don't just offer postage, put in consideration these people have to use lots of tape, they are not doing this for living, they have go find boxes, especially nowaday gasline price is so high, and people need to drive to the post office to mail them to you... My best kept secret source is Fred :-) he would help you what he can, and he takes pride for his bamboos, there are lots of people who reading this forum has been his fans :) Hope this helps Roger

You're in USDA Zone 7...