Books on Identifying, Propagating, Growing and Landscaping With Bamboo

Identifying, Propagating, and Growing Bamboo

• The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos
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-Michael Bell / Hardcover 159 pages / Published May 2000
This is the definitive book for bamboo growers for growing Bamboo in the temperate regions. Lots of comprehensive expert guidance for growing bamboo in the temperate climates of the US, Britain and Europe. Written especially for the enthusiast gardener who is nether a nursery worker nor a botanist. Covers all aspects of bamboo culture and does it extraordinarily well. Covers in depth Bamboo culture, including propagation, and placement in landscaping designs and home gardens.
Includes beautiful color photographs and line drawings, plus lists of where to buy bamboo in the US, including mail order sources. Bamboo lovers will enjoy reading every page while increasing their knowledge of these useful and magnificent plants.
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The Book of Bamboo: A Comprehensive Guide to This Remakable Plant, Its Uses, and Its History
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-David Farrelly / Paperback 332 pages / Published June 1995
This is an excellent reference book for studying the botany of bamboo and is quite a comprehensive book on bamboo science and lore. Includes complete information on bamboo growing, propagation and care, and covers bamboo species with more descriptions then any other currently available books on bamboo.
Written by the one of the few people in the world well qualified to write a comprehensive and useful book on bamboo. The author has spent more than a decade planting, growing, harvesting, and building with bamboo in Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States. Includes complete information on bamboo growing, propagation and care, and bamboo species with better descriptions then any other currently available books on bamboo. What really makes this book a must read is the other non-botanical, non-horticultural information on bamboo that the book includes. Covers bamboo history, their multiple of uses, and their important interaction with mankind through the ages.
If you are into bamboo beyond it's aesthetics, this is a "must read". If you are only into ornamental bamboos, this is still a good reference, and reading it will change your respect for what must be truly the most useful of all plants on planet earth.
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Bamboo World
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-Victor Cusack, Deirdre Stewart / Hardcover 224 pages / Published August 2000
This is a very comprehensive book about growing tropical bamboo with excellent coverage on selecting, propagating, managing, harvesting and utilizing tropical bamboos. Coverage includes using bamboo as ornamentals and windbreaks, as nursery stock, as food crops, and as structural material for fine furniture, musical instruments and building construction. The gorgeous full-color photographs of tropical bamboos are outstanding and are well worth the price of the book. The tropical bamboo's sheer size, beauty, strength, color and variations are breathtaking. Without a doubt, the Cusacks and this book will do more to promote tropical bamboos than any work previously published.
The books is also covers everything you might ever want to do with Bamboo, by providing details on growing, propagation, harvesting, cooking, treating and construction. Includes detailed information on just about every aspect of working with bamboo. Provides useful information on identifying, planting, caring for, harvesting and presents construction methods using a huge variety of bamboos.
Includes diagrams and pictures are very good at showing everything you might want to know about bamboo.
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Building Bamboo Fences
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-Isao Yoshikawa / Paperback 144 pages / Published November 2001
This book covers designs of traditional Japanese bamboo fences, as well as diagrams illustrating the basic techniques of building a bamboo fence. Covers methods of splitting, bending, joining and tying bamboo, together with step-by-step instructions. Includes 31 pages of full color pictures and instructions about how to build fences.
An excellent introductory book for the do-it-yourselfer. These designs will prove the perfect starting point for those who aspire to become a professional garden designer.
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