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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...