Serving the greater Seattle area, Seattle Bamboo cares for your bamboo plants, clumps, and stands.

Seattle Bamboo plants, transplants, contains, prunes, thins, and removes bamboo.

Seattle Bamboo is unique as we often trade a portion of our fees for bamboo plants that we thin from your gardens. We love bamboo, to us the life and vibrance of this plant is both engaging and mysterious. This love shows in our work and our main interest is in the health of your bamboo.

Seattle Bamboo is licensed by the State of Washington, bonded to assure the work gets done as agreed, and insured against liability for up to 3 million dollars. Our state license number is SEATTB*913ML

Bamboo is grown as an ornamental garden plant from Massachusetts to Florida, from British Columbia to San Diego and in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

Bamboos can be divided into two groups: hardy and tropical. Hardy bamboos are best suited for USDA zones 8 (10° F to 20° F minimum winter temperatures) and 9 (20° F to 30° F minimum temperatures).

Hardy bamboos are "runners," meaning their rhizomes spread along the surface of the ground in summer. Planted on a small scale, runners can be contained by burying a plastic barrier, 40 millimeters thick and 30 inches deep, all around the stand.

Tropical bamboos are best suited for zones 9 and 10 (30° F to 40° F minimum temperatures). They are clumpers, having short, thick rhizomes at the base of each culm, and so do not present the containment challenges of runners.

 

To select your bamboos, determine which will grow in your planting zone; then narrow your list to those best suited to your purpose.

Every April the American Bamboo Society (ABS) publishes a list of bamboos available in the U.S., along with their suppliers. The ABS Species Source List for 2000 names 373 kinds of bamboo, describing each in terms of its uses, maximum height and diameter, and sun, shade and temperature requirements.

Plant several varieties, not just one, to ensure that when one grove flowers-and consequently stops sending up new shoots-other groves will continue to produce.