When choosing a bamboo garden plant for your bamboo garden design it is vital to know which plant to chose. As maybe the bamboo garden plant that you wish to plant has too many problems with either growing in your area, or that the bamboo plant could be an evasive plant, which then the nursery should not be selling. Another thing to consider is how much mess the bamboo garden plant will mess. Not all bamboo species are not the same, some species have been manipulated not to drop too many leaves, while others do excessively. You don't want to have to rake up all the leaves on a daily basis, you just want it to look good and serve its purpose.

Choosing the right bamboo garden plant also means you need to consider the height that you want it to grow. While for screening purposes from the neighbor’s yard you could use the taller breeds. But if you just want a simple little hedge effect, you would have to really look harder for them, as bamboo itself does grow very tall naturally.

Bamboo Garden Features

With the bamboo design that you have chosen you might add some other bamboo features to your garden. Water features are also wrapped with thin bamboo garden plant shafts, such as a wishing well water feature. You could also have bamboo chimes hanging around your garden or bamboo torches to light up the area, but make sure they are sturdy and not in a area that would cause a fire hazard.

Since the bamboo garden plant can be used in so many ways, you could also have a deck made out of it too, but the base has to be totally solid, as thin bamboo shafts it would not be able to carry the weight of heavy things placed on it and therefore snap in an instant.

If you are deciding to make a deck out of the shoots from a bamboo garden plant it would be wiser to use the thickest shafts you could get your hands on, like those used for rescue rafts in the movies. They are more durable than the thinner ones for this purpose, and can also be treated on a regular basis. When making a deck with this finish, it is now possible that the deck can be raised slightly off the ground to ensure it lasts longer without staying continuously moist and rotting away faster. The base that the deck is laid on could be made out of steel or tar treated wooden poles to ensure that these also last long.