BAMBOO MYTHS AND PROBLEMS

It was once said that wine grapes couldn't and/or shouldn't be grown in Tasmania. Spectacularly, that idea has  failed the PUBtest!

All those who said that Tasmanian whisky couldn't compete with Scotch whiskies and that has been proven to not be the case. 

It is just the case that bamboo could not compete with Tasmania's abundant forests and exploitative forest practices that was true up until NOW!

Like all introduced 'species' bamboo can fit into various environmental niches in ways endemic species cannot so easily. Moreover, UNLIKE so may introduced species it does not spread via seed. Nonetheless, bamboo is identified as being INVASIVE but that is only so for NON CLUMPING varieties. And even then, not invasive enough for it to be deemed NOXIOUS which itv is not!

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Bambusa textilis 'Gracilis' (a.k.a. Graceful Weaver's Bamboo, Slender Weaver's Bamboo): The Gracilis is a small statured clumping bamboo with green canes forming tight dense clumps with a vertical growth habit and nodding cane tops. In the Sacramento Valley and the SF Bay area it grows 20 feet tall with canes up to 1.25 inches in diameter. The younger canes frequently show an attractive powdery blue color. Several attributes of this bamboo have led us to consider the Gracilis to be the premier clumping bamboo for privacy screening including:

1) the tightly clumping growth habit enabling it to provide privacy in a relatively narrow area,

2) the 20 foot height of this bamboo provides the necessary screening for most customer's privacy needs, ....click here to read more

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