Archive for the bamboo Category

Save the World by Growing Bamboo

In honor of Earth Day, I thought that I would write a post today about something that you can do to help the environment.  In recent years it has become more and more common for regular folks to keep plants in an effort to produce oxygen and sequester CO2.  It only makes sense, then, that [...]


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Black Bamboo is This Year’s Favorite Large Houseplant

I'm very excited about my next houseplant project.  This year Wayside Gardens has one of the most stunning and hard-to-find bamboo varieties you'll ever see, Phyllostachys nigra.  It is a deeply colored black bamboo, and I've always heard that it makes an excellent large indoor plant.  I've got a perfect spot for it this year, [...]


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