I'm a big fan of propagating. It's a great way to get more plants for free and the process itself is exciting to observe. When you start to get to grips with propagation, there's no doubt that you ...

Clumping bamboo has a root that resembles ginger and is easy to maintain – this is the one you want to grow in your garden. To control their height, you reach in to pull down the stem you want ...

One of bamboo's less obvious gifts is its root system, which is more highly developed than it is in most other plants and provides strong protection against riverbank erosion, Janssen notes.