great article on bamboo in NYT

17 years ago

a really interesting read on bamboo cultivation in today's NYT. read it while it's free!

July 5, 2007

In the Garden

A Cane the World Can Lean On

By ANNE RAVER

Mount Vernon, Wash.

BAMBOO is a versatile, ancient plant that shows up in creation myths as well as in pots on Manhattan terraces. It comes in clumping varieties that behave themselves and running "timber" types that spread by rhizomes Â great for a grove, but not so good when they are planted as a property screen that escapes into a neighborÂs yard.

But itÂs that very vigor that has environmentalists hailing bamboo as the new "It" plant for saving the earth.

Here is a link that might be useful: A Cane the World Can Lean On

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manature
17 years ago
Thanks, Ill! I have saved it for Mark. He'll really enjoy it. My only regret about this yard is that it isn't big enough to devote a half acre or so just to bamboo for him. He would love to have a full-bore grove of different ones. But they require more real estate than I'm willing to part with, so we keep our plantings down to a few nice clumps along the fence, etc. It's always nice to learn more about them, and read good articles like this one.

Marcia
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naplesgardener
17 years ago
Yes-I was lucky enough to see it by snagging the NYT secondhand yesterday and wow what a great story.Maybe bamboo will become more affordable soon. Where oh where can I get some of that tissue-cultured stuff?
I'll tell you where you can't get bamboo-Kanapaha Gardens in Gainesville. Stopped there today on my road trip and a not friendly employee told me I have to sign up to place my order (once a year) and they'd send me the info in December. She said they didn't have any for sale. (That turned out to be untrue but nevermind) Then after I wandered around the gardens for an hour and a half I discovered they had locked me in! It was 5:04 pm and I couldn't get out. I thought I might have to call 911 after yelling and banging on the only exit. After 15 minutes someone heard me as he was leaving from the parking lot I couldn't get to because they had planted cactus type things all around the building.
Even seeing the lovely bamboo couldn't repair that bad experience.
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I saw this article also and got excited to think that maybe more types of bamboo would be available at a lower price. But I went to their website and searched for all the bamboo and most of what they are tissue-cloning is best for the Northwest and not my Zone 10 Southeast. Guess I'll have to keep looking for bamboo the way I have been, nursery by nursery.
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