When we think of beautiful gardens, we think of colorful flowers. But it's greenery that gives a landscape form and substance. And with our gradually shrinking places and close neighbors, a tall green ...

Bamboo has a bad reputation. Words often associated with bamboo are aggressive, invasive, overwhelming, and out of control. But please keep reading. It is the ultimate right plant, right place ...

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Jeremy Siegel: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. A cloud of pollen. That sounds like a figure of speech. But yesterday it was a reality as a yellowish, powdery haze floated above the greater Boston area.

The most commonly mentioned feature of bamboos is that they’re part of the grass family. That’s true, but other stereotypes about the family are often wrong – or at least murky. It isn’t surprising: ...

Bamboo does offer many benefits in the backyard, with its statement leafy and structural stems looking highly attractive and capable of being grown as a screen to give added privacy in a space. While ...

At Burke Nursery, it’s no secret that bamboo is not for everyone. Although they sell two kinds of bamboo plants, everyone seems to know that it’s “very invasive,” said John Sullivan, a plant expert ...

With a master’s degree in anthropology and a full-time job as a travel writer and editor for a media company, Mark Sanders started hawking bamboo out of his Upper 9th Ward backyard in 2015 to burn off ...