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Tweet Officially Spring has Sprung. The official date has passed on the calendar and this weekend is the celebration of the spring-iest holiday full of pastels, fake grass and bunnies. Even if Winter Storm Virgil has left a not-so-spring-like covering on the ground, there are buds just waiting to bloom this month! Prep your garden [...]
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Tweet It’s all about getting the message out. Thirty years ago, we were already being exposed to 2000 ad messages a day but now we are well on our way to sensory overload with 5000 images a day showing up everywhere possible. Advertisers often have only a minute to grab a consumer’s attention and [...]
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Tweet It’s hard to talk drought with the extensive flooding recently brought by Hurricane Sandy. But nonetheless, while one part of the country deals with a deluge of rain and the remnants of a 13 foot sea surge, the other half deals with water usage restrictions and a growing set of lawsuits over water rights. [...]
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Tweet If you’re looking to have a positive environmental impact and reduce your carbon footprint, creating an eco-friendly garden is a step in the right direction. Careful planning, maintenance and selection of plants can help you create a garden that has a positive impact on your local eco-system. Whether you’re looking for ways to [...]
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Tweet The good news is that according to the United States Geological Survey’s Estimated Use of Water in the United States, less than 1% of our nation’s available water is withdrawn by individuals and families. The bad news is that that withdrawal still amounts to 3,590 million gallons per day, the equivalent of 400,000 average-sized [...]
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Tweet Forget what the groundhog saw – spring is coming! Maybe not as quickly as we would like it, but it is coming and it’s time to prepare our gardens. A bamboo garden is always a good idea, despite HOA warnings, as it is beautiful, can be used in everything from recipes to crafts and [...]
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Tweet Autumn colors are giving way to falling leaves and with eco-friendly fall maintenance tips in mind, the leaf blowers are tucked away and the rakes are handy. Even if there is curbside pick-up available in your area, it is still be beneficial to save those leaves to create your own compost pile. With rising [...]
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Tweet Well now that Lindsay Lohan is doing it…… To escape the paparazzi and prying eyes of law enforcement, Lohan spent the last days of her house arrest behind a rooftop bamboo fence. Privacy aside, there are many reasons that a bamboo fence may be the right choice for your backyard. Bamboo fencing adds a [...]
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Tweet Whether this is your first year tending a garden or your bamboo garden is flourishing, it’s important to remember that caring for your garden goes beyond just planting the seeds. By being tactical in pruning, you can increase the health and beauty of all the plants in your garden, whether they be flower, bamboo [...]
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Tweet Rice plantations, fields of cotton and wide expanses of Bermuda Grass – all things one would expect growing down South but bamboo in the Delta? Sure enough though (or as they say in my town “Sho’nuff”), a Bamboo Farm flourishes at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. To be fair, [...]
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Tweet With spring upon us, it is time to start thinking about planting a garden in your yard. It is an easy way to lower your carbon imprint on this Earth, and there are so many benefits you reap from doing so. Here are a few more reasons why this is the year to start [...]
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Tweet It’s not unusual for organizations to host donation drives throughout the year. The United Way thermometer is visible in many cities, soup kitchens ask for canned goods for the holiday and winter clothing collection sites are common for those in need. But whoever heard of a bamboo drive? Well, the residents of Edinburgh, Scotland, [...]
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Tweet Taking into consideration everything that is necessary for healthy soil, the pH balance might be the one that sounds the most complicated. And while the word acidity doesn’t sound like something you would want to increase in your garden, a healthy bamboo plant grows best in slightly acidic soils (around level 6). For anyone [...]
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Tweet “….if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. Always the soil must come first.” –Marion Cran, If I Were Beginning Again Consider soil the conveyor of all things healthy to your garden. The quality of soil will determine the [...]
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Tweet From California to the Carolinas, there are thousands of backyard gardens with varying needs. Gardeners across the country must choose their plants not only for their aesthetic but also for their temperament to certain climates. Bamboo is no different. And while gardeners can choose a variety of bamboo plants to suit their needs, it’s [...]
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Tweet As the construction boom slows and the idea of sustainable development grows, the Natural Resources Conservation Service was kind enough to release a list reminding us just how useful and important trees can be in our lives. And while we are cheating a bit as bamboo is technically a plant, consider that bamboo is [...]
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Tweet That little buzzing in our ears while we are outside picnicking, gardening or just enjoying the summer might seem annoying but let’s give the bee some respect. While you might see the bee as a pest to be avoided or squashed because of it’s stinger, farmers throughout the United States know that the native [...]
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Tweet A young bamboo how tall it has grown, without the slightest help in the world. -Japanese Haiku With over 1000 species of bamboo in 90 genera, there is a bamboo plant option for everyone. While it can seem overwhelming to choose one, don’t get discouraged. The benefits that bamboo can bring to your garden, [...]
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