The Friendly Bamboo Revolution

Landscaping with Bamboo - A Practical Guide

This book clearly shows how to use bamboo in the landscape with special emphasis on privacy hedges. Commercial and residential installations are featured with bamboo used as a ground cover, privacy hedge and as an architectural specimen. Fifty key bamboo are described and illustrated with eye-popping photos and first-hand installation experience.
Bamboo is an amazing plant, just beginning to be discovered and used in the landscape. Bamboo offers the professional a cost-effective plant that is evergreen, easy to handle and install, with extremely low maintenance. Understanding its unique growth pattern is key to using bamboo correctly to achieve maximum impact and project success. This book describes how bamboo grows, how to contain it and most importantly, how to pick the right species for each job. This is not a comprehensive reference book or academic study, but a practical hands-on guide, with extensive application and installation details. It features 50 bamboo that are readily available, that should cover every landscape requirement, from short ground covers to 50-foot timber. Any bamboo that does not bring a unique and useful characteristic to the landscape was not included. These 50 bamboo give you a complete palette from which to paint your next landscape masterpiece.
This book is aimed at architects, landscaping contractors, gardeners and do-it-yourself homeowners who want to learn how to use bamboo effectively in the landscape.