Bamboo roots

Bamboos are a huge design trend and they're an elegant addition to a garden - but you must plan to control their growth & spread with a bamboo root barrier.

Preventing the spread of bamboo is easier than you may think.

If you want to protect other plants on your property from encroaching bamboo, or want to keep bamboo from invading your neighbor's yard, it's important that you control where it spreads. Bamboo has thick underground roots called rhizomes,...

Lucky Green Thumb? My friends seem to think I have an indoor green thumb and often enlist my help with their new plants. While on holiday I helped my sister with her overgrown “lucky bamboo…

The bamboo rhizome is the underground part of a bamboo stem (culm). However, rhizomes are not roots, roots grow under the rhizome and culms erect on top of the rhizome.

Wondering if you can grow bamboo in the snow, in the mountains, or in Canada? Yes, you can. Here are several varieties of cold hardy bamboo to consider.

Bamboo has a reputation for spreading everywhere! But it can create a beautiful privacy screen, once you learn how to contain bamboo properly.

If running bamboo were going to take over the world, it would have done so thousands of years ago. There are running species (temperate cold hardy, Leptomorph) of bamboo which we love and there are clumping (Pachymorph) species. These species are commonly defined by their rooting (rhizome) characteristics. For simplicity sake, there are two major …

Enter the fascinating world of bamboo. Learn about the bamboo variety of applications and the main parts of a bamboo plant.

Look at these pictures of my natty roots on my lucky bamboos, and how I repotted them. You'll like the journey.