Growing Bamboo Plants in Landscape

Bamboo plant is a fast growing and one of the most versatile plants in the world. Undeniable, this popular plant has many uses and perform a vital roles in our environment. This incredible plant can be an excellence to your garden or landscape.

To have a perfect bamboo landscaping, you need to consider the right bamboo plants for you. When choosing the right bamboo for you always think the potential and invasiveness of your bamboo. Make it sure you maintain the status of your bamboo. Always have a regular care and control in your bamboo. Choose the right place for the bamboo. It needs a fair amount of sun, either full or partial shade depending to the type of bamboo you have. In heavy soil put organic materials or used a right fertilizer for your bamboo. Watered your bamboo for the first several weeks but not to over-water, too little water is better than too much. Bamboo is adaptable and versatile, it requires little care once established. Always remember three important things in caring your bamboo: mulching, fertilizing, and watering. Bamboo is beautiful plant with unique characteristics. This plant is perfect for privacy and best for your garden.

Health Benefits and Wonder of Bamboo Shoots

Bamboo shoots are young, new canes which are harvested for food before they are two weeks old or one-foot tall. This is now very popular for food in different country because of its tenderness and crispiness. So how Nutritious are Bamboo Shoots? Bamboo shoots having a high fiber content help prevent chronic constipation and plays a role in preventing colon cancer. When it come to phytochemicals, natural substances such Lignas and Phenolic acids can be found in this shoots. Lignas is anticancer, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral while Phenolic acids are potent antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory properties. Antioxidant help prevent cancer and blood vessel injury. It also contain vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin A, Vitamin B , Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus, Fat, Carbohydrates, Protein, and Calories to help build our body resistance. Bamboo shoots are also a good source of Potassium which maintain our normal blood pressure and normal heartbeat.

The Bamboo Plants Propagation

Since bamboo plants have many uses and serve a vital role in our environment and landscape. This article talks about the proper way and different kind of bamboo propagation. There are three different ways to propagate bamboo. The propagation include: growing from seed, the plant division, and vegetative propagation. Always consider that in propagating bamboo plant, timing is one of the key success for better propagation and beautiful landscape.

Growing bamboo from seed – Bamboo is known for its unusual flowering. It’s really hard to have a bamboo seeds because bamboo plants flower and seed is infrequently. However, if you have a chance to have some seed it germinates you could have a new clone on your hands this is the best method of bamboo propagation since clump age would be known at the initial stage of its life cycle.

Plant division propagation – In propagating bamboo plants in this method, first you must select a section of bamboo plant you wish to transplant. Using the right materials dig the section out and plant it in their new location. However, removing to many offsets from the bamboo plant can damage the remaining clump because more energy on their rhizome and lower culms.

Vegetative propagation – This is the most traditionally technique in propagating the bamboo. There are several ways to accomplishing vegetative propagation including culm cuttings, branch node cuttings and whole culm burial. This also usually called since the plant produced will be identical to the parent bamboo.

Buddha Belly Bamboo Plants

The next series of post will I discuss different kinds of bamboo plants to help you choose the right bamboo plants for you.

The first Bamboo plants that I will feature is Buddha Belly Bamboo Plants, which mostly found in Florida and California.

Buddha Belly Bamboo Plants grows with the maximum height of 16 feet and 3 inches in diameter, this bamboo plant can live at the maximum temperature of 27 degrees Fahrenheit.

Buddha Belly Bamboo is one of the most beautiful type of bamboo, because of its unique sexy shape that will surely magnetized your eyes, to be amaze in its beauty.

Christmas trees made out of bamboo?

When I was surfing the net yesterday, I was searching for a special Christmas tree then suddenly dump up in to a blog that I quote:

"When I lived in the Philippines, we had a Christmas tree assembled out of bamboo. Every year I search online for a source for these, but this year, as previously, I've come up empty. Does anyone know who sells them? It was my understanding at the time that they were very common (there), but now all trace of them seems to have vanished."

Christmas a very special occasion for every Christians around the world, and for someone for is looking to have a different Christmas, he requested a Bamboo Christmas tree and hope this product that i found helps.

A true original and very nice Bamboo Christmas Tree is sure to be a conversation piece at the home or office. Perfect for smaller spaces. This is a real live 4'-5' Stripestem bamboo in its 3 gallon pot, neatly decorated with lights and assorted ornaments. Our bamboo Christmas tree can be grown & kept indoors or out in its pot for months of enjoyment. After The holidays the decorations can be removed and it becomes a beautiful potted bamboo. Our bamboo Christmas tree comes complete ready to unbox and display fully decorated and dressed in a large Bali Bamboo Planter. (a bamboo plants online exclusive).

Here is the link: http://bambooplantsonline.com/Bamboo_for_Pots/143/Bamboo_Christmas_Tree_Special.html

Hope this one helps.

Clumping Bamboo Used as a Privacy Hedge in Sout Florida

Here is a nice install and use of clumping bamboo as a hedge done by one of my www.bambooplantsonline.com customers. This is a story of a guy in a gated Palm Beach community who just didn't want to see his neighbors. The variety of bamboo he chose to install is bambusa textilis "gracilis" otherwise known as Gracilis or "graceful Bamboo". It is a very ornamental bamboo and will grow to 25'+ if not kept after by trimming. This install is about 2 years old and the owner says he has had little difficulty in keeping it beautiful and well behaved at only 12' tall! The 3 gallon pots were originally planted on 5' centers, for a thick, quick, screen. He does little in the way of maintenance other than using my 12 month Polyon Slow release fertilizer and keeping the ants off with imidiclorapird. The owner also had a microjet irrigation system installed to supercharge growth, as he was anxious to gain desired privacy. The hedge is trimmed at least 2 times a year and as it matures the owner will have do his best to shift gears and begin to slow its growth. Eventually the owner will have to remove some of the new shoots as they emerge, to control & stifle the overall girth and growth of the clump.There are several simple tactics used to control the growth of larger clumping bamboo, when used in smaller landscape settings. Restricting the overall growth of the clump can be achived by tactics as agressive as pruning the outer sections of the rhizome (root) ball with a shovel or sharp spade, or as simple as kicking over new soft shoots that are growing too close or in an undesireable location. I just wanted to share this picture and story to show that Larger Clumping Bamboo like Gracilis can be used in smaller landscape situations. Just make sure you and your gardener understand what you are doing and what bamboo species you are working with. As always I am glad to share what I know, Just email me or check out my site www.bambooplantsonline.com - Happy growing -scott

Bamboo Plants Increase Productivity of Workers by 12%

Did it come to you before when you really can’t focus on things that you’re doing? Stressed out and feel uncomfortable? Well those are common problems of employees working inside a not healthy working space. Did you know that those problems can decrease your productivity?

Studies show that people who are mostly stress has less productivity and don’t always get the work done? One of the mail reasons behind this problem is unhealthy work place. It is found out that people who works in place that that have live plants or trees have better performance in their line of work than those who works indoor in the condition of without any natural source of clean and fresh air.

According to Washington State University State research, Bamboo plants have a calming effect, particularly for those who sat behind computer screen for more than four (4) hours a day, the knock on benefit is greater concentration and increased productivity by as much 12%.