Clumping bamboos such as Fargesias don’t pose a problem, as they stay pretty much in place. It is the running invasive bamboo in the genera Bambusa, Phyllostachys, Pleioblastus, and Pseudosasa that ...

While a foreign plant species may be beautiful, it can cause detrimental harm to an ecosystem. Even when enclosed in a single space, invasive species have a way of spreading. Bamboo, for instance, ...

2007-07-15 04:00:00 PDT 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 ...

Kuihong Wang, Huazheng Peng, Erpei Lin, Qunying Jin, Xiqi Hua, Sheng Yao, Hongwu Bian, Ning Han, Jianwei Pan, Junhui Wang, Mingjuan Deng, Muyuan Zhu Journal of ...

You may believe planting bamboo will create a fast-growing privacy screen from your neighbors or the street. Although that may be true, bamboo has many more downsides. It is not good for fire-adapted ...

No so long ago, any suggestion that bamboo might make a fine addition to the garden might automatically provoke this reaction: "Be afraid -- be very afraid." In the popular imagination, this oversized ...

Running bamboo is a little trickier to divide due to its rhizomes, but it's not impossible. Similarly, you'll need to use a sharp tool to dig it up, but you'll also need to slice out a rhizome section ...

A plant of mysteries that is poorly understood probably explains why it is the most underused category of landscape plant in Florida. Bamboo not only lends grace and elegance to a landscape, it also ...

Peter Barnes and his wife had been happily living in their detached property in Brighton for a year when they started to notice green leaves growing inside their conservatory. They assumed it was ...

It's been called the fastest-growing woody plant on the planet. One species has been clocked racing skyward as much as 4 feet a day. When a bamboo culm, or shoot, pops through the soil, it will soar ...