The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos

The Gardeners Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos offers a valuable guide both 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 is 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 information about the history of bamboos the botanical sophistication of the plants design and tips for finding and growing the more unusual species.