Fun Facts About Bamboo Bamboo is an extremely fast growing tropical grass with thick, hollow stems. Bamboo can grow as tall as 100 feet and can grow over three feet in one day. I have a variety of bamboo in my back yard and have seen this amazing growth. Bamboo leaves are the preferred food of the giant panda. Pandas can consume up to 14 pounds of bamboo every single day! The hollow-cored bamboo stems are commonly used for crafting furniture, flooring, paper fishing...

Climate Change and Global Warming are indeed a huge hot topic in all its controversy and media hype. Many people are up in arms over the possibility of global warming and indeed they want the United States to sign the Kyoto Treaty and agree to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases.

The Cold Hardy Windmill Fan Palm tree originated on the island of Chusan off the east coast of China, and the Windmill palm tree is often called the Chinese or Chusan Fan Palm. Robert Fortune smuggled Windmill palm plants from China into the Kew Horticultural Gardens and into the Royal garden of Prince Albert of England in 1849 after the Opium Wars of China ended. The Windmill Palm tree was named in Latin, Trachycarpus fortunei, after Robert Fortune, and after 158 years, in t...

Of all the forms of energy that humanity has developed in the past few hundred years of mass production, chemical energy is by far the most commonly used. Whether in the batteries that power all of our handheld devices and their chemical reactions, or in the millions of uses we?ve developed for fossil fuels and their numerous chemical reactions, chemical energy is a staple of our daily lives. Coal is burned for energy throughout the world, gasoline combusts every day in our v...

Today's sunlight will last 10 hours and 30 minutes; tomorrow's, 10 hours and 31 minutes. Tonight's temperate will bottom out at 48 degrees. The temperature of the soil six inches below the surface will average 63 degrees today. The length of a day and its temperatures are usually a mere curiosity to humans. Plants, however, respond to them in very precise and predictable ways, completely indifferent to the wants and whims of a gardener. Beginning gardeners, unaware of the ...

Since I'm 6-foot-4 I have an affinity for tall flowers. I'm used to looking down at my flowers, but every now and then, a good, tall spike with flowers atop is refreshing. Foxgloves, delphiniums and hollyhocks provide perfect punctuation points for flowering beds and borders, their candles of flowers accenting many of our coastal gardens. But of all the spiky cottage garden favorites, it is the foxglove that stands alone at the top of the class in local gardens. A row o...

The largest living creatures that man encounters are shade trees that are handily defined as trees that produce shade protection from the sunlight. Mankind loves and respects shade trees with their cooling benefits and the many available wood products, that improve the recreational environment and offer food and shelter for wildlife, birds, insects, and other creatures. Trees are planted and grown for many purposes; for their sculptured beauty, beautiful seasonal color, and f...

Fig trees are fruit tree garden favorites. Buying and planting large fig trees can fruit the first year of growing. Two of the best orchard or fig tree garden selections are: Brown Turkey Fig Trees and Celeste (Celestial) Fig Trees. The fruit of the fig tree was well known in Biblical scripture and a fig tree was condemned to wither by Jesus in the Bible gospel of Mark 11:16 for being barren of fruit. The fig was used numerous times in the Bible to symbolize truths of the ...

We should all be concerned with saving the rainforest, and we can do our part by making small changes to our lifestyles. If everyone chose to do so, the results would be amazing. Trees offer us beauty and shade of those hot summer afternoons. Trees also help reduce the effects of carbon dioxide. Planting more trees is a very easy way you can help the to preserve the rainforest. You can help reduce the amount of waste by recycling, especially recycling paper. The number on...

Occasional breaks from the daily monotony are essential for each of us. If you move out yourself on a cruise you can pass some time with your own thoughts, or even feel having got lost by bidding farewell to all those, and be comfortable in the lap of endless waters as if you are safely marooned there. But if you change decision and want to be in the company of others you can make new friendship with some of the hundreds fellow travelers. Sail through the nature on your c...