Noninvasive Bamboo (2011/11/11)
   Ms. Heinricher, who grew up with bamboo — her father tended golden bamboos all around their house in Olympia, Wash. first tried to propagate the plant in the late 1990s in a little greenhouse at her home in nearby Anacortes, where she lives with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, a marine biologist, and where she founded Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998.
   “I got interested in noninvasive bamboos early on, knowing that they were very beautiful, but impossible to make,” Ms. Heinricher said. She quickly realized just how impossible, as she tried to divide some of her own rare specimens and watched many die.For now, though, Ms. Heinricher is concentrating on bamboos for the garden: ground covers that can replace lawns, well-behaved clumpers that can be planted in pots or as screens, and tall timber bamboos for those who have the room. The timber species are not invasive, she insists, if you put them in the right place with plenty of room, and maintain their growth by planting them on a mound, encircled by a shallow trench, about 10 inches wide and 8 inches deep, where the rhizomes can be cut easily when they travel.
   So she persuaded Mr. Burr, an owner of the nearby B&B Laboratories, to help her. Mr. Burr and his company had been in business for almost 30 years, with a 14,000-square-foot tissue culture lab and 40,000 square feet of greenhouses. B&B had pumped out plants as varied as rhododendrons and cauliflower, and had figured out how to tissue-culture the Boston fern in 1973, for a nursery in Oxnard, Calif., and thousands of other plants.TreeHugger, an environmental-lifestyle Web site, has even argued that sometimes a maple floor made from locally harvested wood under a forest-management certification program can be a more environmentally sound choice.
   “But bamboo was the hardest,” Mr. Burr said, looking back over eight years of trying seemingly endless combinations of variables to trigger bamboo to regenerate in a test tube.When I asked what finally worked, Mr. Burr stared back deadpan and said, “We’d have to shoot you.”Bamboo can be as delicate as the umbrella bamboo, Fargesia murieliae, a clumper with soft pea-green foliage and a weeping habit, or as heroic as Phyllostachys edulis, whose sturdy olive-green canes can grow 70 feet in a single season.
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