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Ornamental Grasses for Shade - Bamboo - Page 3

© Marge Talt

Although their plant source list is dated 1997, it's probably still good and provides links to email or web pages for those nurseries having them plus addresses for snail mail for those not online. In addition to their list, the following online nurseries carry some bamboo:

• Glasshouse Works
• Heronswood
• Veronica's Garden Nursery

  Also on the ABS web site is Earle Barnhart's Introduction to Hardy Bamboos, an excellent overview of hardy bamboo, growing, restraining, etc.

  Bamboo Australia has good lists of runners and clumpers along with brief descriptions. And, of course, if you live in Australia, you can buy the plants from them.

  A detailed article on The Small Farm Resource site containing a lot of information on planting, propagating and managing bamboo. It's aimed at establishing bamboo plantations, but the information is useful to all who wish to grow these plants, despite the red warning that the information is not verified. There's even information on how to prepare the culms for cooking.

  Northern Groves sells bamboo. Their web site also has listings of bamboo with good descriptions and hardiness ratings, broken into categories for:

  • Medium and Large Running Bamboos:
  • Medium and Small Running Bamboos:
  • Hardy Mountain Bamboos (Clumping Types);
  • Sub-tropical Clumpers;
  • Dwarf and Small Running Bamboos with Broad Leaves.

  In addition, there are articles on planting, maintaining, containing, pests, and eating bamboo. A lot of good information is available on this site..

  Burt Associates' Mini Guide to Bamboo has good, brief descriptions, hardiness ratings and links to photographs of many species and genera listed.

  Here's a small collection of bamboo pictures taken by Kurt Stüber. Some very interesting close-ups of culms as well as the flower spike of Arundinaria sinensis - not so prepossessing as to be worth dying for, but that's what the plant did after it flowered.

  The Bamboo At San Marcos Growers. This wholesale nursery has a lot of useful information on many plants, including bamboo. Theirs is a fairly extensive list with descriptions and links to some photos. They also have a page with information on bamboo, culture, flowering and use in garden.

  Bamboekwekerij Fastuosa looks to be interesting web site devoted to bamboo, in Dutch.

  Detailed botanical information, including uses, folk medicine, chemistry, toxicity, and description for Bambusa arundinacea.

  Short article on edible bamboo "Bamboo Shoot Production With Tropical (clumping) Species"

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