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Bamboo is a family of grasses gone overboard. Stunningly tall, resistant, hardy, and easy to grow, these will please you and garden guests with elegance.

Light shining through bamboo plants

Bamboo, a plant with mysterious secrets

Trees and shrubs
Choosing the right bamboo for planting

Choosing the right bamboo for planting: running, dwarf, black canes?

Trees and shrubs
Phyllostachys bamboo with stems and leaves

Phyllostachys bamboo: plant, contain, and care like a pro

Trees and shrubs
Fargesia bamboo

Fargesia, the dense-growing bamboo that’s perfect for privacy

Trees and shrubs
Create an exotic garden with endless lush growth

Oasis of moisture: create an exotic garden at home

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Flowers, palms and ferns create an exotic garden even when not in the tropics

Create an exotic garden… bring the tropics to your back yard

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Rhapis excelsa - bamboo palm

Rhapis excelsa, the bamboo palm that fits right in your home

Indoor plants
Tips on how to set up a deck, terrace or patio

Tips to set up a deck or patio: balance furniture with plants

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Sensory garden design

Designing a sensory garden

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Nandina domestica

Nandina domestica, the Sacred Bamboo

Trees and shrubs
Wide clump of pleioblastus bamboo

Pleioblastus, the dwarf bamboo that’s a blast to grow

Trees and shrubs
Horsetail growing and care

Horsetail, mesmerizing ornamental patterns

Garden Flowers
Landscaping small tiny garden

Landscape a small garden with 5 simple features

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Black plants, here an iris, for the garden

9 Black plants for the garden – Black is Back!

Garden Flowers
Archway to a meditative garden

Meditation gardens – gardens that help build inner strength

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Zen rock garden in Japan, private house

Mind-soothing rock garden – set up your very own Zen Rock Garden!

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lucky bamboo

How to Grow and Care for Lucky Bamboo Indoors

Indoor plants
small japanese garden ideas

Japanese inspiration for the garden

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Mahonia soft caress

Mahonia Soft Caress, fern-like leaves for a Japanese garden

Garden Flowers
bamboo

Bamboo growing, care, control and landscaping ideas

Trees and shrubs
Bamboo shoots clumping together in front of a door.

Control invasive bamboo – options and solutions

Trees and shrubs