The Information About Bamboo

The original Bamboo is a grass of Gramineae family and Bambusoideae subfamily. Its size is from inches to over 100′ and can grow a foot or even more a day and there are running or clumping species. But what we'll discuss about and have inside our houses or what is sold by the name of "bamboo" in flower shops, cut and arranged in different decorating ways, is not a real bamboo plant, but a kind of Dracaena sanderia plant native of Cameron.

There are pot and also in water kept bamboos. In both cases the plant has to have roots for the hydration process to be done. Most of bamboo pot plants prefer the light, without full sun and a soil pH of around 6.0 - 6.2. The lack of water is the biggest problem with growing bamboo. However don't ultra water it, because its leaves will become yellow and with an unhealthy aspect. The soil is good to be just moist. When you buy or receive it check up the soil's water level, it has not to exceed 50 %. Anyway don't you water immediately when get it inside, because bamboo has 1 or 2 days period of adaptation at new environment.

Bamboo is one of the few plants that can grow even hydroponic (without soil), resisting more than one year. The water is good to be purified before put the bamboo in or just let for 24 hours to decant and thus chlorine and fluorine substances to evaporate. Change periodic the water in vase and you can add some general flower food. In summer, spray the bamboo's leaves with water even once a day, because it loves air humidity.

Bamboo is a plant with right stem, but we admire in flower shops the spiral shape. Maybe you ask your self how this is possible. It's easy for you to make a spiral from your lovely bamboo. Bamboo is growing and aligning towards the light. All you have to do is to turn around regular the vase where it's put.
 
Don't you put a bamboo near other plants in water or especially not together with cut flowers. It will not resist because of the cut flowers' speedy debased. If that happens, the bamboo will rot too or its leaves will become yellow. This is a sign of bamboo is dieing. Yellow streaking will slowly expand and spread. The only solution is to cut the part of the stem that is affected by bacteria, because it is not a reversible process.
Feng Shui Bamboo symbol.

Bamboo is the plant that brings luck if we admit the feng shui principles. In Chinese language the words "prayer" and "bamboo" have very similar meanings, that's why the idea of having a bamboo in your house which is increasing the religious faith and is protecting more from all the bad energies. The feng shui tradition says that is good to buy or create all by your self a bamboo with 3 or 8 stems, these being considered the lucky numbers and if you choose 8 stems bamboo plant, make sure that 2 of them are a spiral shape.

We recommend you to build something from bamboo wood, maybe a small house for your children play or decorate your place with. Or just put a bamboo ringer in front of your door, because, according to Hindu culture, bad spirits fear of these of which sounds could betray their presence.

Bamboo is one of the most useful plants grown in the world. It's used as food, building material, animal fodder, ornamentation and screening. For example, there is a freeze dried bamboo powder product that is very suitable for food and beverage.

Why Pine Trees Are Evergreen

Almost all the trees turn into yellow in winter,but the pine trees are also green,they are evergreen,why?let me introduce the details to you.
Pine tree is evergreen is because its leaves have evolved into pine needles, so the water is evaporated is very few, keep chlorophyll is more also. And pine trees are not leaves, it is in constant change the leaves, just a falling leaf is not so much, time leaves in the four seasons of different time, not carefully observe, really thought is evergreen!

The pine needles longer life expectancy, general is 1 year to 5 years, and not regularly falling leaves.
Pines are native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. In Eurasia, they range from the Canary Islands, Iberian Peninsula and Scotland east to the Russian Far East, and in the Philippines, north to just over 70°N in Norway, Finland and Sweden (Scots Pine) and eastern Siberia (Siberian Dwarf Pine), and south to northernmost Africa, the Himalaya and Southeast Asia, with one species (Sumatran Pine) just crossing the Equator in Sumatra to 2°S. In North America, they range from 66°N in Canada (Jack Pine and Red Pine), south to 12°N in Nicaragua (Caribbean Pine). Pines have been introduced in subtropical and temperate portions of the Southern Hemisphere, including Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, Australia, Argentina and New Zealand, where they are grown widely as a source of timber. A number of these introduced species have become invasive, threatening native ecosystems.
Pines are evergreen, resinous trees (or rarely shrubs) growing 3–80 m tall, with the majority of species reaching 15–45 m tall. The smallest are Siberian Dwarf Pine and Potosi Pinyon, and the tallest is a 268.35-foot (81.79-meter) tall Ponderosa Pine located in southern Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
The bark of most pines is thick and scaly, but some species have thin, flaking bark. The branches are produced in regular "pseudo whorls", actually a very tight spiral but appearing like a ring of branches arising from the same point. Many pines are uninodal, producing just one such whorl of branches each year, from buds at the tip of the year's new shoot, but others are multinodal, producing two or more whorls of branches per year. The spiral growth of branches, needles, and cone scales are arranged in Fibonacci number ratios. The new spring shoots are sometimes called "candles"; they are covered in brown or whitish bud scales and point upward at first, then later turn green and spread outward. These "candles" offer foresters a means to evaluate fertility of the soil and vigour of the trees.

Pines are long-lived, typically reaching ages of 100–1,000 years, some even more. The longest-lived is the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Pinus longaeva, one individual of which, at around 4,600 years old, is one of the world's oldest living organisms. This tree can be found in the White Mountains of California. An older tree, unfortunately now cut down, was dated at 4,900 years old. It was discovered in a grove beneath Wheeler Peak and it is now known as Prometheus after the Greek immortal.