bamboo

Description: Pandas love it. Why don't you?

Newest Review: ... point we all must have watched a garden make over programme or too and these seem to favour some of the giant bamboos and I ... more

... have a baby one of these in my garden. Why do I have a baby one, well cost, a fully grown giant bamboo, you know the one, comes in a large point and over 6ft tall, costs over £60.00 as most garden centres, however, I found a baby one in Wilkinsons a couple of years for only £2.99 and though would have a go and see if I could coax it to grow to its adult size. When I bought this is was a scrawny looking thing with a few shoots and less leaves, however, 2 uears later it has filled out quite a bit and more than trebled...more

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bamboo: Not just for Pandas (1208 words)
by - written on 23/05/08 (Very useful, 89 readings)
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Having owned a couple of bamboo plants for a while I thought I would tell you about them. ----What is Bamboo---- Well bamboos are part of the grass family and are evergreen woody perennial plants and come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, all in all there are around 1000 different species of bamboo and no don't panic I am not going to mention all of them. Bamboo is formed of stems which range in height from a few centimetres up to 40meters, each stem is jointed and looks like it has been glued together where there was a break but this is not the case, the joints are formed a fairly regular intervals. The larger bamboos look a bit ... Read the complete review

Bamboozled by bamboo? (715 words)
by - written on 14/05/07 (Very useful, 248 readings)
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Bamboo. Ok so what do I know about bamboo? Well I do know a little. When I was a child my dad had some bamboo growing in a corner of the garden I used to like playing amongst it, cutting the shoots down and playing with it, making my den. Pandas live in bamboo forests. They eat a lot of bamboo it is not easily digested, has few nutrients so pandas eat other food too. Bamboo shoots are often eaten as part of a Chinese meal bamboo does not have much flavour so takes the flavour of the food it is cooked with. However this is not a culinary review but a gardening one. So what is Bamboo Mary did I hear you ask? ... Read the complete review