Bamboo Valley—Oregon Bamboo Grower and Landscaper

Home
About Us
     ● The Business
     ● Dain Sansome, Owner
     ● Our Bamboo Overview
     ● Contact Us
About Bamboo
     ● General Information
     ● Definitions
     ● Running bamboos
     ● Timber bamboo
     ● Privacy Screens
     ● Clumping bamboos
Running Bamboos
     ● Phyllostachys atrovaginata
              (Incense Bamboo)
     ● Phyllostachys aurea
              (Fish Pole or Golden Bamboo)
     ● Phyllostachys aureosulcata
              ‘Spectabilis’
     ● Phyllostachys bambusoides
              (Japanese Timber Bamboo)
     ● Phyllostachys bambusoides
              ‘Castillon’
     ● Phyllostachys dulcis
               (Sweetshoot Bamboo)
     ● Phyllostachys edulis
               (Moso)
     ● Phyllostachys heteroclada
               (Water Bamboo)
     ● Phyllostachys nigra
               (Black Bamboo)
     ● Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bory’
               (Tiger Bamboo)
     ● Phyllostachys nigra ‘Henon’
     ● Phyllostachys vivax
              (Chinese Timber Bamboo)
     ● Qiongzhuea tumidissinoda
              (Chinese Walking Stick Bamboo)
Clumping Bamboos
     ● Fargesia robusta
Services and Projects
     ● Design and consultation
     ● Installations
     ● Bamboo control service
     ● Removals
     ● Stump grinding
Other Products
     ● Greeting cards
Purchasing|
     ● Payment
     ● Deliveries
     ● Warranty
Bamboo FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
     ● Landscaping with bamboo
     ● Selecting your bamboos
     ● Planting, care, and control of
              your bamboos

Links

Driving directions to Bamboo Valley
              in Albany, Oregon

Dain Sansome climbing Moso
bamboo.

Mid-Willamette Valley Oregon

*Installation * Bamboo Removal * Control *
* Landscape Design and Consulting *
* Stump Grinding, Tree Removal and Brush Chipping

*Our Bamboo Overview THUMBNAIL PAGE*
* Timber Bamboos * Privacy Screens *

Fully licensed, bonded and insured
Oregon LCB#8491

We specialize in bamboo related landscape services and custom dug ball-and-burlap specimen bamboo plants. We are located in the Mid-Willamette Valley in Albany, right off Highway US 20 one mile outside downtown Albany. Very near Corvallis and Salem. We also work in Eugene and Portland, on the Coast or anywhere the bamboo takes us.

We provide the highest possible quality bamboo services and plants. We take bamboo seriously. We would be happy to have you come and see our farm and select your plants. Please call to arrange consultations and visits.

**We also speak Japanese 日本語を話せます** 竹専門サービス
セイラム・コルバリス・ユージーン・ポートランド地域を中心に活動しています。
相談・植え付け・種類の識別・手入れ・竹の除去お気軽にご連絡ください。

A path through Tiger Bamboo and Black Bamboo at Bamboo Valley
Tiger Bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bory’) and Black Bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) at Bamboo Valley.

All yard plants require maintenance and bamboos are no exception. To control running bamboos the required maintenance is cutting the rhizomes done by a shallow edging--at least once and preferably two times per year (July and October). If you are stuck or have other questions please call BAMBOO VALLEY for help.

Did you know that here in the Pacific Northwest bamboo is not an invasive species?
It can be aggressive and move into adjacent areas, but that is unusual unless it is getting enough moisture from somewhere.
Bamboo needs a good supply of summer moisture in order to thrive. Our summers alone do not qualify. Dried out bamboo is dead bamboo. In many parts of China and Japan where bamboo flourishes their summer rainfall is equivalent to our winter rainfall. One to two inches of precipitation per week during the growing season will make your bamboo flourish too.

BAMBOO HAS NONE OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS COMMON TO INVASIVE PLANTS:

INVASIVE PLANTS:
1. Regular and abundant flowering
2. Heavy seed set and excellent germination
3. Long seed dormancy and staggered germination
4. Seeds are carried by birds and other wild animals
5. Cuttings (of any part of the plant) root easily
6. Rapid growth and short life cycle
7. Resistant to grazing
8. Deep root system
parts from http://alic.arid.arizona.edu/invasive/sub3/p2.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species

BAMBOOS:
--Bamboo has abundant but extremely irregular flowering.
--Seed set is usually quite poor, germination only occurs in exact conditions.
--Seed dormancy in the wild is approximately 2 weeks.
--Most seeds are eaten like rice, a source of carbohydrates.
--Cane cuttings of temperate bamboos do not root and rhizome divisions need exact conditions, generally not found in the Pacific Northwest.
--Bamboo has rapid growth and a very long life cycle.
--Bamboo is killed continual defoliation.
--The roots can go deep, but the core reproductive unit, the rhizome, stays usually within a few inches of the surface.