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 ...

Hearing that the solution to your landscaping worries is to kill a darling little plant feels like sacrilege. But some bamboo varieties are invasive, and killing them may be the only way you can ...

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 ...

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 ...

AFTER I SPENT too much money hiring strong, persistent young men to dig out an aggressive wall of bamboo, I turned right around and replaced it with — what? — more bamboo. But only because I was ...

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 ...

Across forest floors, under rice paddies, and beneath garden beds, a quiet kind of adventure unfolds. Some plants do not grow straight down into the earth like ...