Category Archives: Bamboo

Someday: Bamboo @ San Diego Botanic Garden

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Richie Madden
Someday life will find us on vacation in California. Until reading about the Bamboo Garden at the San Diego Botanic Garden, the plan has been San Francisco. How can I not visit a garden "with largest bamboo collection in the United States"? With the cable cars, trolleys, fog, food, Chinatown, we have at least one great friend (Green!) waiting for our visit, San Francisco will happen for us someday. Now, turns out that our "someday" trip to the west coast will involve two airports, as I cannot imagine spending 8 hours in a rental car once there.
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Bamboo Sighting: Kardashian Khristmas Kard/The View

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Richie Madden
Funny video, but the reason for this post of course, is the bamboo on the set that is seen behind Whoopi. I love it! We don't get a very good shot of it but I do think that it may very well be real.
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New Bamboo Garden: Arrow Bamboo

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Richie Madden
At first Arrow (Pseudosasa japonica) was not a favorite of mine but after some time it grew on me. This bamboo has a larger leaf and thinner culm, which goes against my first love of bamboo- the large culms. The larger leaf allows this bamboo to grow in shady areas. Knowing this bamboo will grow very dense and quickly I choose to have a long narrow bed to create a screen in the back of the yard.
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