We bought our current home eight years ago. On either side of the garden is bamboo, planted by previous owners. We're no experts, but it appears to be two different types, one is close to our ...

Jerry is visiting Sam and Matt Birkwood, who run a nursery that specialises in bamboo. Sam and Matt had been living in Asia and saw how many ways bamboo is used there, so when they returned to ...

The more you cut, the more it grows. The surest bamboo business is a nursery. Bamboo nurseries sell largely to suburban and urban dwellers who want privacy from neighbours or passers-by.

Like trees, bamboo plants sequester carbon as they grow and can act as carbon sinks, storing more carbon than many tree species. A plantation of bamboo can store 401 tonnes of carbon per hectare ...

Jerry goes to a bamboo nursery, Jane looks at flowering native shrubs, Costa grows crops in pots, Clarence prunes native shrubs, our guest presenter multiplies perennials, and we look at plants ...