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The zen of the single rare specimen, the lush
abundance of a sun-dappled, whispering grove.
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Burt Associates Bamboo, purveyor of fine living bamboo, offers an exceptional
selection of bamboos for your home, office, or garden. We will help you
select carefully-grown bamboos suited to your climate, your level of horticultural
expertise - and your whim.
Our customers often need screens for privacy, groves for decorative value,
bamboo timber for gardens or construction projects and single specimens
for their beauty. We can suggest the proper species for each application,
climate and exposure. We offer both clumping and spreading bamboos and
can help whether you are in New Hampshire or New Mexico. |
To purchase a bamboo and for detailed information
about the bamboos we sell, please go to our catalog.
There are specimen plants for containers, bamboos for groves
or evergreen screens, and more.
Go here for hardy, clumping bamboos. |
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Visit the Choosing and Growing
section to get basic infirmation which will help you decide. Also
visit the page of Frequently Asked Questions.
Our bookstore offers guidance to the available
bamboo books and our links will lead you to
many valuable resources.
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We are a small, family-owned nursery. We supply honest advice, do not
exaggerate the hardiness of our plants, do not invent new varieties
and do not inflate shipping costs. We look forward to hearing from you.
Need an elegant clumping bamboo good in southern states?
Check out Borinda angustissima.
And for northern states, Fargesia
scabrida. New this year and hard to find.
Our garden/retail operation is
open to visitors from May to October —
mail order year round.
If you are
ordering bamboo to be sent to AZ,
CA, ID, NV, OR, UT or WA be sure to read the shipping
page.
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DWARF BAMBOO
These beautiful bamboos offer a variety of leaf colors hard to
find in the taller bamboos.Many are useful as potted plants,bonsai
and bonsai companion plants. These species present a range of
heights from several inches to several feet. They are appropriate
for Zones 5 to 10 and are all running bamboos. The height to which
they will grow in Zones 5 and 6 will be substantially lower than
the listed maximum height
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MID-SIZE BAMBOO
Use these bamboos as screens, decorative specimen plants for
the garden, foundation plants or as portable screens or specimens
in large containers. These are grown for their culms and are the
classical bamboos. In every instance the beauty of the culms (canes)
will be apparent. If you need a privacy screen, a fast growing
bamboo, this section will fill your need. They do best in sun
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MOUNTAIN BAMBOO
Look in this
very valuable group to find hardy, clumping bamboos as well as
clumping bamboos for warmer climates and interiors. These bamboos
originate in the mountains of South and Central America, China
and the Indian sub-continent. The Fargesias are among the hardiest
of bamboos and all are useful in shade; some in sun as well. If
you are in a northern state and need an evergreen screen that
requires no control, The Fargesias are perfect for you. The Borindas,
Chusquea and Drepanostachyum do well in warm states. Himalayacamlamus
prefers cool nights. These latter, more tender bamboos, but not
the Fargesias, are excellent interior plants.
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TIMBER BAMBOO
Here are the giants ranging from 40 to 100 feet at maturity with
culm diameters of 3 to 7 inches. They are the classics, the bamboo
you usually picture when you think of bamboo. The clumping timber
bamboo can be grown in a relatively small space, but give the
running bamboos ample room. As they become established, they all
very rapidly increase in size. These all do best in full sun
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