The more desirable garden bamboos are, naturally, those that grow slowly at the root and have rapid vertical growth. |
Green with bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples, the place invited refugees, partly because the foliage seemed a center of coolness and life. |
It is known that dense silica deposition in these four cell types occurs sporadically in the epidermis of grasses and bamboos. |
Grasses, sedges and bamboos are grown mostly for their foliage and anything that enhances that effect is worth having. |
Generally, the tropical bamboos tend to be clumpers and the temperate bamboos tend to be runners. |
We were talking about how brown the bamboos were most of the year, and how they greened up after a little rain. |