Fargesia murielae nitida bamboo (commonly known as the Chinese Fountain Bamboo or Blue Fountain) is a fantastic plant for shade, part-shade ...

Fargesia nitida ‘Obelisk’ is a hybrid bamboo with evergreen leaves and dark tall culms. This clump-forming Fargesia nitida has the best qual...

  Fargesia  Murieliae  Simba  is a small Fargesia bamboo, best for small gardens and contained spaces.  It is an undemanding small bamboo wi...

Small bamboo plants are great undercovers, shade loving and tolerant to frost and drought. They are also the best landscaping plants as they...

Bamboo plants in pot and container planters are great for instant privacy screens. Besides, you do not have to worry about the bamboos’ inva...

The old culms and rhizomes of the black running bamboo Phyllostachys nigra will need pruning to promote new growth.  The thick bamboo bush m...

There are several types of running and clumping bamboo and they come in different sizes and shapes.  When spacing bamboo, you need to unders...

Bamboo will require care and maintenance to grow well. In this article, we take a look at how you can take care of your bamboo plants, and w...

  Parts of a clump-forming bamboo The rhizomes of the clumping bamboos are stout, and thick and grow upwards from the parent plants, also ca...

The running bamboos have noticeably long-running rhizomes with pointy tips, also called the Leptomorph rhizomes and can grow over a consider...

Bamboo culm is commonly known as stem or cane.  The culm is comprised of 10 parts.  Tips The bamboo tips are the’ telescopic’ ends of the ne...

Bamboos are members of the grass family.  They are common in the temperate and tropical zones mainly in Asia, Central and South America and ...

We featured over 50 clumping bamboos on Garden Bamboo Plants (G.B.P.) and wrote numerous articles detailing their: uses & qualities; gro...

Generally, there are lots of bad stories about growing running bamboo in the garden because of its invasiveness. But they are great plants i...

Bamboos are not the only fast-growing hedge plants. The other fast-growing shrubs for hedging and privacy screening. They  are great alterna...

In the UK, many hedge trees and shrubs are either evergreen or deciduous. Some lose their leaves in spring whereas others remain evergreen, ...