American Bamboo Association
We started growing bamboo in 1980 and joined The American Bamboo Society (ABS) that same year. We helped establish the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the society and have served on the board of directors of both. Ned Jaquith, the late founder of Bamboo Garden, was elected in 2006, as vice president of the ABS and has been awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership due to over 25 years of whole-hearted efforts and extensive bamboo knowledge. He was one of the most significant bamboo growers, collectors, and promoters of our time. We are very fortunate to be able to continue the nursery operation, Bamboo Garden, and provide the same level of service, expertise, and enthusiasm for bamboo as our founder.
We specialize in hardy clumping species, as well as hardy giant timber bamboos, and have been at the forefront of introducing new species into the horticulture trade. We have supplied bamboo for many large commercial landscaping projects including Tacoma Zoo, Portland Classical Chinese Garden, Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon Zoo, Wellesley College in MA, Wayne Morse Courthouse in Eugene, OR, Asia Trail of National Zoo in Washington DC, Shangri La Project in Vancouver, BC, and many others. We work closely with landscaping companies, providing healthy and beautiful bamboo for commercial and residential landscapes, locally and afar.
Personal service and customer satisfaction is our specialty. We strive to educate people so that they can grow and maintain bamboo effectively, responsibly, and proactively. Our bamboo experts present the best bamboo choices for each customer based on a careful discussion of the project. We always put our customers’ needs first in this important process and take the time to answer all questions thoroughly and accurately. Secondly, we teach growers what to expect from their bamboo in the years to follow planting. This includes resources for maintenance and growth planning. Long-term success with bamboo is our goal as much as it should be for each new grower. We lean on many years of experience and meticulous attention to detail to assure that customers make the best bamboo selection. We use organically inclined methods of cultivation to produce our bamboo stock.
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We support the American Bamboo Society, the Oregon Association of Nurseries, the Ned Jaquith Foundation, and The International Plant Propagators Society. We also donate bamboo to support local schools and garden clubs in our community, as well as the Lan Su Chinese Garden and the Portland Japanese Garden for their annual plant sales or display gardens.
With respect to the late founder of Bamboo Garden, Ned Jaquith, we invite and welcome all to our space, and hope to inspire visitors of our nursery and website!
Ned’s contributions to bamboo horticulture were recognized by the American Bamboo Society as he was granted the rare honor of a Lifetime Membership award. His knowledge, generosity, and service continue to permeate the American and international bamboo communities and we’re honored to continue his legacy as stewards of bamboo education and horticulture.
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Owner Ned Jaquith, an ardent bamboo enthusiast, has introduced countless people to the world of bamboo and served as a mentor to countless more—myself included. Nothing seems to please Ned more than introducing another person to bamboo. His welcoming enthusiasm carries through to the Bamboo Garden’s knowledgeable staff, who are adept at discussing bamboo with experts and novices alike. -
We compiled a collection of personal stories about Ned from family, friends, and colleagues. These stories serve as reminders of Ned’s insatiable curiosity and passion for bamboo and the community that shared in his interests.
Help educate the next generation of bamboo experts with a donation to the Ned Jaquith Foundation. The foundation supports and encourages science or culture-based bamboo research projects in order to fortify the knowledge of bamboo.
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Ned moved to Portland, OR from southern California, bringing with him a division of bamboo. Not knowing it was a tropical type, it perished over the first winter.
Ned’s lifelong interest in bamboo began at a plant sale in Pasadena, CA by the Friends of Huntington Garden, where he met then-president of the newly formed American Bamboo Society, Richard Haubrich. Ned joined the ABS and brought several types of bamboo with him back to Oregon.
Through trial, error, and advice from friends in the ABS, Ned discovered which new bamboos would thrive in the climate of the Pacific Northwest and his backyard in SE Portland. He read and collected every book he could find about bamboo, and formed the new PNW chapter of the ABS with his friend, Daphne Lewis. They held their first meeting in Tacoma, WA. Daphne became the first chapter president and Ned the first vice president.
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Ned founded Bamboo Garden. He based our namesake on the book “The Bamboo Garden'' by A.B. Freeman-Mitford, written in 1896. He rented a two-acre lot and an old greenhouse to grow bamboo starts in Milwaukie, OR, and began selling them at local garden club meetings (or to whoever was interested). People doubted Ned would find success, but that didn’t deter his enthusiasm. Ned was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the ABS and attended the 1st International Bamboo Conference in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. He met many new bamboo growers and important bamboo nurserymen, such as Wolfgang Eberts of Bambus Centrum in Germany and Yves Corset of the famous 100+-year-old garden and bamboo nursery, La Bambouseraie, in southern France.
Propelled by newfound inspiration, Ned spent many long days, weeks, and years collecting, planting, and propagating bamboo, giving talks around the Portland area, and gradually developing the fledgling bamboo business. He made connections with others in the horticultural industry and the Bamboo Society. The groves matured in the Milwaukie, OR location, hidden behind Mary Jean's Flower Shop. New species and cultivars of bamboo were introduced. Ned and his circle of friends and partners, Rick Valley and Jed Doty, among others, became the local beacon of bamboo knowledge. The American Bamboo Society grew in membership and enthusiasm, forming several new chapters across the US.
Ned Jaquith and many other new bamboo growers attended the first PNW Bamboo Agroforestry Workshop organized by Gib Cooper in Gold Beach, OR. With participation from over 100 attendees, the concept of using bamboo as an agroforestry crop as well as a nursery product was further conceptualized. Bamboo farming began to gain serious consideration by many people.
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With dreams of expanding into a true garden/nursery, Ned purchased 16 acres of forested hillside and valley in North Plains, OR, which is the site of our present-day nursery. Although it would take nine years before we were able to move the business completely to this site, we began field planting groves after logging sections of the forest. Ned attended the Professional Bamboo Growers Conference and ABS meeting in the American bamboo heartland, Savannah, GA.
By this time, Bamboo Garden had amassed a collection of over 200 different species and cultivars of bamboo, most of them tucked into our small 2 acre rental nursery. Many exciting new species of clumping bamboo were established in our greenhouses. Bamboo gradually gained more popularity in the gardening world as well as American culture. During this time, Ned hired a young horticulturist, Kerri Flemmons, to help manage the nursery operation.
The second PNW Bamboo Agroforestry Workshop was held in Port Townsend, WA. The event had a remarkable turn out, fueling the surge in bamboo enthusiasm locally and nationally. Ned Jaquith was considered by many in attendance to be the regional “bamboo guru” and was one of the featured lecturers, speaking about his fascination with bamboo and their mysterious flowering process. Kerri helped refine the operations systems and bamboo production at Bamboo Garden resulting in increased sales, while Ned continued to give tours and presentations.
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Bamboo Garden became recognized nationally as one of the premier mail-order bamboo specialty nurseries, and an early rendition of our catalog was featured in Martha Stewart Living. We began to gain notoriety as a wholesale source of quality bamboo, shipping large orders across the country. Ned hired Reveriano Ramirez to be the foreman in the field for bamboo digging, planting, and maintenance.
Bamboo Garden launched the first phase of our website and became a digital source for bamboo knowledge and photos, attracting a wide range of site visitors and customers. Bamboo Garden had our first bamboo display at the popular Farwest trade show organized by the Oregon Association of Nurseries. Ned hired Teresa Lopez to focus on irrigation and propagation. By this time, a large area had been cleared and prepared for bamboo planting at our North Plains acreage, in addition to gravel roads and two ponds created in the valley. Bamboo Garden donated many large specimens of
During one of Ned's tours of bamboo nurseries in England, he met horticulturist Ian Connor, who he asked to travel back to the US and work for Bamboo Garden. Ned became president of the PNW chapter of the American Bamboo Society. He gave a special bamboo presentation at the Far West Show and Bamboo Garden became a regular vendor every August. The
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'Moso' planted at Ned and Nancy's home reached an astonishing height of nearly 40 feet, the largest yet recorded in the
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