Bamboo and Tropicals
Bamboo is an underrated and underused plant in North America, it really is the ultimate renewable resource. Bamboo doesn't require pesticides to flourish. It needs modest amounts of water to thrive. When you harvest some of a stand's canes, the underground rhizomes survive and continue to quickly produce mature culms, unlike trees that die when chopped down. Its extremely fibrous root system really excels at stabilizing hillsides to prevent erosion.
Bamboo also sequesters carbon dioxide at far higher rates than an equivalent stand of trees and releases up to three times the amount of oxygen.
Bamboo has been cooked as food and crafted into chopsticks, houses, boats, furniture, scaffolding, farm tools, medical instruments and art.
Thomas Edison used carbonized bamboo filament in his first light bulb; Alexander Graham Bell created his first phonograph needle from a bamboo sliver. With tensile strength up to 52,000 pounds per square inch, bamboo is stronger than most steel, yet its fibers can be spun into a silky cloth blessed by natural antimicrobials.
Have a look at our gallery for the latest pictures of a large Timber Bamboo grove we dug and transplanted from!
For pictures see our Bamboo Portfolio
