You don't have enough bamboo to supply a furniture or industrial fiber factory (i.e. thousands and thousands of acres), and like me you have too much to consider it a garden feature. I only have about 2 acres of bamboo-which is plenty as far as I'm concerned. It can be a labor intensive plant. I can say, however, that it saves me from purchasing mulch. Thinning and grooming the grove produces a huge amount cane that I chip using a garden-variety chipper. When I get into the swing of things I can produce a 30-40 pound bag of mulch in about 7 minutes. It ends up saving about $700 a year (the cost of about two truckloads of garden mulch). It isn't as pretty as cedar, but it's free...and I get the exercise. I've found I never stop grinding out mulch just because I've run out of bamboo culls, but simply because I can't spend my life grinding up bamboo.

You can also root prune a running bamboo several times during its rhizome extension season in late summer to force it to assume a clumping habit. I've used this method to create Pseudosasa amabilis, Phyllostachys edulis, and P. nigra bory clumps. I use the 'big blue shovel" to cut a ring 3 inches outside of the outermost culms once in Aug and again in Oct. Under this regime, bory has been slower at increasing in size than it would be if allowed to run, but amabilis and edulis has been increasing in height at the same rate as their running equivalents. I look forward to seeing a moso clump with 5" diam culms in about 7 years.

taw9370: We have also purchased Stepco brand bamboo flooring from FastFloors. I'll start by noting that they screwed up our order a bit; the salesperson incorrectly described the trim accessories available, and the 'end-cap' or 'threshold' trim was overlap style - like you would use for a floating install - rather than the integral tongue-n-groove style we wanted. The reducer on the other hand _was_ integral with the flooring, so either Stepco doesn't describe it very well, or the salesperson just didn't check hard enough. However, we have been very happy with FastFloors' customer service post-screwup. They haven't seemed to dodge our calls and respond to both phone and email queries quickly. They agreed to send out additional reducer (which our installer agrees could be modified to our needs) to replace the end-cap trim (which they told us to just keep because it wasn't worth it to them to pay to ship it back), and it fedexed out the next day. Of course, FedEx somehow managed to lose it and didn't tell anyone till they missed their scheduled delivery date :-(. Our tracking number showed it as 'on time for delivery' on the specified day until it missed then it just showed nothing. Bad FedEx >:-(. However, a quick call to FastFloors, and they're sending us another replacement, no problems at all. Due to the multiple snafus we're pushing the time envelope for getting everything together (contractor supposed to start this week), but we're pretty happy with the FastFlors service so far. As to the Stepco product itself, we're getting the carbonized/carmelized strand woven 'Dimensions' engineered floor for a glue-down install on concrete. This product is a 3-layer engineered floor where the bottom two layers are perpendicularly laid (middle layer 90 degrees from top or bottom layers) horizontal bamboo, and the top wear layer (nice & thick too) is strand woven. We hated every horizontal and vertical bamboo sample we got from any manufacturer because they all lacked the advertized "twice as hard as oak or maple!!!!!!1!one" hardness. Very soft in our stress testing - dropping keys, dropping knives, dropping pieces of brio track, turning upside down and standing on them and using as skates on our tile floors (I weigh too much, not gonna tell exactly), gouging with a nail punch.... etc :-). I wouldn't recommend horizontal or vertical grained bamboo to anyone. I highly recommend the strand woven bamboo however. That stuff is ****ing DENSE and hard as hell. Pretty good water resistance too since it's pretty much all glue - we soaked one sample half in and half out of a bucket of water for about 24 hours and couldn't tell which half was which. WAY harder than the other samples we got (including actual oak and maple samples, which were about on par with the better quality horizontal/vertical bamboo for dentability), and reasonably priced. So long story short, we found that Stepco was introducing this engineered bamboo with a strand woven top, and it sounded ideal since it combined the durability of a strand woven top with the added stability of engineered construction. Plus it was on sale (online things are always on sale one way or the other), and we got free shipping of our 1300 sq ft (saved another ~$600 there). We haven't installed yet (like I mentioned, starting this week though), but I'll be keeping my eye out for the rough edges taw9370 mentioned. We unpacked the first couple layers of one box and they looked good on the top edges (the strand woven layer), though I probably could have gotten a splinter off of one of the bottom edges (the horizontal bamboo layer) if I tried. I'm not worried too much at this point as I wouldn't expect the bottom to be as finely finished as the top bevel anyway, though it always gives me a little heart atack when someone says a product is bad after I already bought it :-). This is actually my first post, though i've been reading for a long time - I just finished a full DIY kitchen remodel including wall/ceiling/cabinet/electrical/counter/appliance removal with lots of reinforcement from the posts on this form. I plan to make a web page with pics of the process and end result when I'm done (ha ha ha ha... seriously. HA HA HA HA - we all know I'll never be completely done) and will try to remember to share. What I learned from the experience: 1) Ikea cabinets rawk! 2) Whoever thought 7' kitchen ceilings were a good idea (early 80's) should be shot. 3) Removing a (non-load-bearing) wall is easy and fun 4) Whoever invented that simple drywall jack: I love you and want to have your babies. Pfennig PS: If anyone in the Austin area is looking for a good installer, I highly reccomend floorguy. We had three contractors come out to quote our install job (I didn't want to screw that one up, and I'd get glue everywhere for sure), and we preferred floorguy over the other two by a large margin. We didn't use him because the price difference between him and the middle-price contractor was a bit over the premium we decided we'd be willing to pay for him, but we'd still highly recommend getting him to come out if you're in the area. We'll let any interested parties know if we'd also recommend the installer we _did_ go with after our install is done :-).

Not sure if they work but closest to your measurements http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Woven-Sage-Roller-Shade-58-in.-x-72-in./3309208/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Bellona-Bamboo-Roman-Shade-47-in.-x-72-in./3610456/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Bellona-Bamboo-Roman-Shade-58-in.-x-72-in./3610194/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Tuscan-Bamboo-Roman-Shade-26-in.-x-54-in./3705850/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Nantucket-Bamboo-Roman-Shades-47-in.-x-72-in./3140199/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Tonga-Bamboo-Roman-Shade-26-in.-x-72-in./3610476/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Rustique-Bamboo-Roman-Shade-27-in.-x-54-in./3297084/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Dali-Native-Bamboo-Roman-Shade-58-in.-x-74-in./3297261/product.html http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Shanghai-Bamboo-Roman-Window-Shade-26-in.-x-98-in./4765955/product.html http://www.overstock.com/search?keywords=47%22+shade&SearchType=Header http://www.overstock.com/search?keywords=26%22+shade&SearchType=Header http://www.overstock.com/search?keywords=58%22+shade&SearchType=Header You should be able to use some of the above here is what OS states about shades in general "# This bamboo shade is 58 inches wide (+/- 1/8 inch), and the hardware may add to the width slightly # For an inside mount we recommend ordering a shade that is at least 1/4 inch smaller than the inside width of your window frame"