No single building type or material will allow us to build our way out of our climate and decarbonization challenges. We need to reuse and renovate what we already have and when we do build new, we ...

What if your neighbor puts an ugly shed on your shared property line? Or - as is increasingly common in parts of Houston - what if the one-story house next to you disappears and a multistory dwelling ...

Q. It has been suggested that timber bamboo be planted instead of oaks along Kirby Drive because it grows fast and the roots would not break the sidewalk. How much shade would you get? How much space ...

Before lumber and engineered wood products became a curse and a prayer, even before COVID-19 struck, a start-up prefab company out of Sonoma County, CA, anted-up some early funding round cash for an ...

Dear Jane: I would like to plant a live screen using timber bamboo. Can you tell me where it can be purchased and how it propagates? Dear Arlene: You might want to think twice about planting Japanese ...

Q: Our landscape architect wants us to plant timber bamboo as a screen along one side of our house. It would look beautiful, but I am concerned about the bamboo damaging the foundation of the house.

The San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas will say goodbye to an old foliaged friend Friday that has literally grown up at the garden over the past three decades. According to representatives at the ...

Nine years after Jackie Heinricher discovered how to clone bamboo in a test tube, her company Booshoot might have the backing it needs to become a major part of the forestry market. The Skagit Valley ...