Bamboo evokes the image of snacking pandas or serene Asian gardens—or it becomes a nightmare when this fast and aggressively growing plant takes over your yard. Carefully choosing the bamboo variety ...

Plant the right bamboo and you can create an attractive privacy screen in your yard. Plant the wrong one and you can have a nightmare on your hands. Among the more than 1,400 species of bamboo, some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hardy bamboo palm (Chamaedorea microspadix) is a cold-hardy clumping palm from Mexico. The species requires moderate shade. Female ...

The most commonly mentioned feature of bamboos is that they’re part of the grass family. That’s true, but other stereotypes about the family are often wrong – or at least murky. It isn’t surprising: ...

The other day, outside a mall in Jerusalem, I spotted a plant with fine-textured, weepy foliage and thought it must be some kind of bamboo. It turned out not to be a true bamboo, but is commonly ...

Hardy bamboo palm (Chamaedorea microspadix) is a cold-hardy clumping palm from Mexico. The species requires moderate shade. Female specimens display clusters of red or orange-red fruit. Propagate this ...