We are growing bamboo for shoots, canes and reproduction as well as bonsais from seeds adapted to our climate zone specially Japanese and local trees.
Doing so since 1990 means that our bamboos are already big and mature. First because we took the tallest species growing in Europe and second because it needs about 10 years to have such a mature bamboo plant. Mature doesn’t mean that the bamboo gets thicker and longer each year. It means that the new bamboo shoots reach in height and thickness their top size in a year. Think, when you eat bamboo shoots you eat a whole bamboo cane. No wonder such delicacies are expensive !
Bonsai is an art in China and Japan. Here in the West this tradition doesen’t exist. To succeed in that type of art you need patience, humility and perseverance. The miniature tree is the artist’s perception of the real tree. Most Chinese and Japanese arts find their origins in taoïsm and bouddhism. The concepts of wabi and sabi fundamental principles of Chinese ant Japanese art. In short wabi means detachment, without pretentions and wabi : loneliness, secluded, authenticity.