BAMBOO

Located in Gold Beach, Oregon Tradewinds Bamboo Nursery specializes in one of the world's most important plants: bamboo. We grow more than 200 varieties of bamboo. Bamboo can range from a small six inch high ground cover to the tall majestic timber groves of fifty foot plus giants... Gib and Diane Cooper, the owners of Tradewinds, send bamboo plants to customers all over the USA. We also make appointments with visitors to personally select the appropriate bamboo. Like other plant groups there are many species. There are over a thousand different bamboo species!... In 1999 we began traveling to Mexico to discover the bamboo resources shown to us by our botanist friend, Gilberto Cortés. We discovered that nearly half of the 40 species of native bamboo of Mexico are endangered. In December, 2000, we initiated a bamboo conservation project with the Southern California Chapter of the American Bamboo Society (ABS). Since then we have traveled to Mexico several times to lay the foundation..

Primary location: Gold Beach United States