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The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos Michael Bell

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos By Michael Bell

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos by Michael Bell


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Summary

If you choose your bamboo species carefully, there need be no danger from running roots or excess size. They can be used as hedges for front gardens, screens for patios and in small courtyard gardens. This title has an A-Z of bamboos and details their cultivation and where to buy them.

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos Summary

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos by Michael Bell

Crossing a number of genera, the wide variety of species and cultivars provide the garden with brightly coloured glossy stems, lush foliage, rustling movement and very fast growth. The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos offers both a valuable guide to gardeners keen to establish the best performers for different situations and for specialists interested in the detail behind the plant. For the gardener there are a wide range of uses in the mixed border or container, and as specimen plantings, ground cover or water features. If you choose your species carefully there need be no danger from running roots or excess size and bamboos can be used as hedges for front gardens, screens for patios and in small courtyard gardens. Specialists will find fascinating information about the history of bamboos, the botanical sophistication of the plant's design, and tips for finding and growing the more unusual species

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos Reviews

'If you are a bamboo fan, this is the book to get.' Country Life

About Michael Bell

Michael Bell is President of the UK Bamboo Society, contributed to their booklet and the society journals. He holds one of the National Collections of Phyllostachys with over 165 species and forms which was the subject of a TV presentation in which the author participated with Roy Lancaster: Michael lives in Wadebridge, Cornwall.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 The World of Bamboos 2 Botany 3 Cultivation 4 Propagation 5 Bamboos in the Garden 6 A-Z of Bamboos 7 People and their Gardens Appendices: - Glossary - Bamboos for Special Purposes - Where to See Bamboos - Where to Buy Bamboos - Bamboo Societies - Reading About Bamboos - Bamboo Synonyms Index Acknowledgements

Additional information

GOR002217442
9780715315811
0715315811
The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos by Michael Bell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
David & Charles
20030327
160
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