NZ sites
New Zealand Bamboo Society
This will be the main bamboo site in NZ. It's early stages yet, but please visit, and if you are interested in Bamboo, you can join up. They're good bunch of people.
The Forest Floor
Website of Tim and Zelka Vallings, Bamboo Society members. A very good site on ecology and also bamboo. It's what's lacking on a lot of sites these days; a personal touch and a bit of humour, as well as being truly informative.
Users and Growers
1000 things
Wolfgang Ebert's project to collect photos of 1000 different uses of bamboo. There are easily more than 1000 uses but not so easy to have photos of that many in one place. If you have any photos of uses not published, then please submit them.
A World of Bamboo
These guys come first. This is the site of my good friends Angel and Mariana in Argentina. Angel makes the most wonderful musical instruments from bamboo. I know because I have one! These are serious instruments for musicians. They don't go out of tune, a
Antoon Versteegde
Antoon is another sculptor who makes the most amazing, huge scale bamboo framework structures. They are unbelievable. All the more so when you realise they are all temporary, and held together with elastic bands! Participation of the public is central to
Bamboe Informatie Centrum
Good Dutch site, soon to be in English and German. I can't understand it at present, but can't wait for the English version. They seem to be well placed to take advantage of the current resurgence of interest in things bamboo in Europe.
Bamboo garden Nursery
Bamboo nursery in Portland Oregon, USA. They accept online orders and credit card payments. Good photos of each species with related info.
Bamboo Hardwoods
Seattle based company, selling a large range of bamboo products - furniture, fences, flooring and structures. They seem to have their own factory in Vietnam. Quite a slick site.
Bamboo of the Americas
Which is a project Gib Cooper started to try to save some of the bamboo species from extinction in Latin America, as well as promote their use.
Cal Hashimoto
Cal is an excellent bamboo sculptor, who has travelled greatly, and incorporates many influences into his work, especially from Africa, and his current home, Hawaii.
Earthcare Enterprises
Hans Erken's site in Queensland, Australia. They have a nursery, and do not only bamboos but gingers and aquatics. An informative site, regularly updated. A couple of good slide shows too.
JapanGarden.co.uk
Offering only the finest high quality and authentic Japanese garden products available. A very well laid out and informative site. Easy to navigate, and smart visuals.
Kool Bamboo
Site of my friend Will in Florida. They import Guadua and Guadua products into the US. They also have some pretty innovative ways of making structures. They were an inspiration to me.
Lewis Bamboo
Bamboo Nursery specializing in cold hardy bamboo to add tropical beauty to your landscape, provide privacy screens and put ornamental plants in your gardens. They are in Alabama, USA.
Quindembo Bamboo Nursery
Bamboo Nursery in Hawaii, selling non-invasive clumping bamboo. Lots of information, a good lighthearted and informative site.
Steven Glassman
Bizarre urban conceptual sculpture using bamboo, along with cement, glass and whatever else he feels like. The result is a very contemporary use of the material. In his own words: "Artist Steven Glassman reterritorializes sculpture, architecture, landscap
Tai Hei Shakuhachi
This is Monty Levinson's site. He makes superb shakuhachis (Japanese bamboo flutes) and co-developed the Precision Cast Bore© technology for making flutes. Monty is very highly regarded in the exacting standards of Japanese flute making circles. He is als
Tradewinds Bamboo Nursery
Gib Cooper's site in Oregon, USA. A good straight forward site, with lots of general bamboo info. Allows you to order online. And a very good bookstore, and tools section. Gib is very knowledgeble, and has started......