Re: The case for making an informed choice

hollenback wrote:
>
>DG wrote 
>
>> Travis wrote:
>>>
>>>Do those "most respected bamboo sellers" have names?
>>
>>
>> I've used three and all did a good job.
>>
>> This one I've mail ordered:
>> http://www.bamboodirect.com
>>
>> This one I've mail ordered and bought there:
>> http://www.bamboosourcery.com
>>
>> Bought a few retail from:
>> http://www.booshootgardens.com/index.cfm
>>
>>
>DG,
>I think Travis was referring to the statement from echnosum
>>Even some of the most respected bamboo
>> sellers describe Phyllostachys as "clumping" unless it is a totally
>> rampant one.
>
>I did not see anything on those websites that said Phyllostachys was a 
>clumper.
>
>The only person outside of Europe that I have seen described a
Phyllostachys as
>a clumper was Cisco Morris on his television show. He planted a P. aurea
and
>said it was a clumper then gave a warning that all clumpers will run
after 
>about 4 years.


Interesting...  Did any of you guys catch this article:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/garden/05garden.html?ex=1341288000&en=f006f2e465cae3cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


I found this part particularly interesting:

Planted in large groves, bamboo can store “four times the CO2 of a
stand of trees of similar size,” Ms. Heinricher said, citing a study
by Jules A. Janssen of the Technical University Eindhoven in the
Netherlands, in 2000. “And,” she said, “it releases 35 percent more
oxygen.”