Growing Bamboo (2011/11/18)
  Growing bamboo from seed or by division creates plants of different sizes, forms and colorations. But each species of these bamboos, growing by the tens of thousands in the Mount Vernon greenhouses, is amazingly uniform.Ms. Heinricher and I walked by long tables full of Borinda boliana, a clumping bamboo whose new canes come up pale blue, then turn to burgundy and purple, and Fargesia rufa, or Sunset Glow, a cold-hardy clumper with orange-red cane sheaths that make a good screen or hedge. There were ground covers, too, like Pleioblastus viridistriatus, or Dwarf Green Stripe, which has chartreuse leaves striped with dark green ribbons.
   And the rooting stage is tricky, too. “We’d put out 10,000 plants and lose 10,000,” Ms. Heinricher said.In early January, Ms. Heinricher’s company, Boo-Shoots, bought B&B Laboratories and its growing center from Mr. Burr and his partners, and she asked him to focus solely on propagating additional species of bamboo. In the spring, they shipped 150,000 bamboo plants to wholesale growers like Monrovia and Hines in California, Prides Corner Farms in Connecticut and garden centers and mail-order houses like Plant Delights in Raleigh, N.C.“That’s 24 different bamboos, all from tissue culture,” Ms. Heinricher said. “And we have 42 different kinds in production.” In 2008 the goal is to ship out 250,000.
   “People are starting to use these as an alternative to lawn,” Ms. Heinricher said, running her fingers over the soft leaves. “You can walk on it. And if you mow it, it stays really tiny.”I’ve always been fascinated by bamboo, especially the so-called timber species, with their giant gold, black and striped canes, which can range from 20 to 100 feet. (Remember the scene in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” when Ziyi Zhang leaps across a lush grove of towering bamboo that bends and sways to her every move?) But I’ve been afraid to grow it, thinking of those nightmarish stories about bamboo running across the neighbors’ lawns.
   But Ms. Heinrich is determined to teach people how to choose the right plants, and how to maintain even the most vigorous growers. Her booklet, “Discovering Bamboo,” available at booshootgardens.com, describes how to cultivate and maintain it.In her seven-acre garden in Anacortes, which is open by appointment, I admired many of the well-behaved bamboos around the Japanese-style guesthouse. But it was the tall timber types that drew me up the hill. Thousands of birds seemed to be nesting there, and the canes were swaying in the evening breeze.
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