# Bamboo Society GB


## Posts

- [Visits 2025](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2025/03/04/visits-2025/): August 23rd, 1pm. Visit to Tony Shep’s amazing tropical garden in Manchester (donations to NGS please). The address is 28 Stafford Road, Manchester, Lancs, M30 9HW,  and details of the garden are on the NGS website here. September 6th-7th, Cornwall weekend to coincide with the excellent rare plant fair at Tremenheere, Saturday 6th September 9.30 am visit to private garden in Mousehole. 11.30 am Minack Theatre garden, Porthcurno TR19 6JU. (It is advisable to book tickets in advance). Lunch – would people like to have lunch at Tremenheere Kitchen (separate management from the garden)? If so please let me know numbers […]
- [Imagine Bamboo Summit 2025, Stoke-on-Trent](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2024/08/13/imagine-bamboo-summit-2024-coventry/): More details here
- [Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘Harbin’](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2024/08/02/phyllostachys-aureosulcata-harbin/): The Bamboo Society (EBS Great Britain) Newsletter no. 17 March 1993 SOME RECENT INTRODUCTIONS David Crampton By the mid 1960’s the British Isles could boast of some 50 different bamboos in cultivation, though many of these were rare or at least in very short supply. Lawson, in his book Bamboos (1968), remarked that he would not be surprised if the number in cultivation reached the hundred mark by the turn of the century. Little could he have guessed what was coming in the 1980’s, when there was indeed, a veritable explosion of new introductions!. This was an exciting time for […]
- [American Bamboo Society Annual Conference](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2024/08/02/american-bamboo-society-annual-conference/): The ABS annual Conference will be held in St Louis, Missouri, from 17 to 20 October 2024. More information is available on the ABS website (https://www.bamboo.org/2024-american-bamboo-society-conference/ ).
- [AGM 2025](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2024/08/02/agm-2024/): The Bamboo Society AGM will be held on Saturday 11th October 10.30 am at the Barley Mow, Biddulph ST8 6NE (entry via the doors from the beer garden). The intention is to make this a hybrid meeting so that those unable to travel to attend can join by Zoom. Full details of this nearer the time. The AGM will be followed by a visit to the nearby Biddulph Grange ST8 7SE. ‘A Victorian Masterpiece At Biddulph Grange Garden you can take on a global journey, from Egyptian pyramids, a Himalayan Glen through an Italian Garden to a Victorian vision of […]
- [European Bamboo Expo 2024](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2024/05/06/european-bamboo-expo-2024/): DORTMUND, Germany — The second annual European Bamboo Expo 2024 will take place in Dortmund, Germany, from May 16, 2024 through May 18, 2024, and will focus on the pivotal role bamboo plays within the circular economy, with special emphasis on the construction and food industries. Expo organizers intend to feature more than 60 international speakers and exhibitors and aim to welcome hundreds of trade visitors to showcase bamboo’s remarkable versatility as a renewable material in architecture, textiles, agriculture, and commercial product design.
- [Think Bamboo](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2023/05/05/think-bamboo/): Developing a European Bamboo Program Moso bamboo in Portugal Think bamboo UK 2022 video
- [Meeting ideas for 2020](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2018/06/27/meetings-for-2020/): Invitations from two British modern day plant hunters with their own nurseries.
- [AGM 2019](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2017/10/14/agm-2018-9/)
- [World Bamboo Day 18th September](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2017/08/21/world-bamboo-day-18th-september/): Where will you be ? How will you celebrate BAMBOO ?
- [Borinda papyrifera CS1046](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2017/07/28/borinda-papyrifera-cs1046/)
- [How green is bamboo?](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2017/01/08/how-green-is-bamboo/): Bamboo's Carbon footprint. http://www.inbar.int/how-green-bamboo Bamboo products. http://www.inbar.int/new-generation-bamboo-products 
- [Test layout](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/2017/01/04/test-layout/)

## Pages

- [Flowering Records](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/flowering-records/): Historical Flowering Records and Articles (Please note it has not always been possible to retain the original formatting) The Bamboo Society (EBS Great Britain) Newsletter No. 1 Spring/Summer 1989 FLOWERINGSIn a large and once glorious garden near Penryn, close to Falmouth in Cornwall, there is a large (4m. X 4m.) clump ofbamboo which is just starting its second season of flowering. The first year’s flowering only seems to have affected about 5% of the whole clump, and this year some 10% of the culms are affected. Never having seen the species before, I have very little clue as to what […]
- [Bamboo gardens](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/bamboo-gardens/): Where to see bamboo in the U.K. Please note this page is very much under construction! Suggestions of gardens to add to the list are very much welcomed. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Ness Botanic Garden, Cheshire Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Birmingham Botanical Gardens Batsford Arboretum, Gloucestershire Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens, Oxfordshire
- [Links](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/links-2/): Bamboo information: Photo Gallery Bamboo Identification UK Bamboo UK Facebook group INBAR (International Bamboo and Rattan organisation). About. Website. Bamboo Societies: American Bamboo Society Bamboo Society of Australia European Bamboo Society Germany European Bamboo Society Netherlands Bamboo Nurseries: Scottish Bamboo The Rodings Plantery
- [News](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/news/): Press Release European Bamboo Expo 2024: Shaping the Future with Bamboo Innovation Dortmund, Germany – 18 September 2024 Following the resounding success of the inaugural European Bamboo Expo in 2023, the European Bamboo Expo 2024 is set to return to the same venue, the Dietrich Keuning Haus in Dortmund, Germany. Save the dates for May 16-18, 2024, as this promises to be an event not to be missed. In 2024, the focus will be on the pivotal role of bamboo in the circular economy, particularly in the building and food industries. The versatility of bamboo will also be showcased in areas such as interior design, […]
- [Sample Page](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/sample-page/): This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like piña coladas. (And gettin’ caught in the rain.) …or something like this: The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, […]
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- [You have joined the Bamboo society!](https://bamboo-society.org.uk/you-have-joined-the-bamboo-society/): You have successfully subscribed to membership of the Bamboo Society (EBSGB) – expect a confirmation email from Paypal confirming your payment now – and a follow up email within a week from the society officers welcoming you as a new member.
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