'NZ Home of Bamboo Plants, Bamboo Poles, Stakes, Bamboo Garden Services, Bamboo Craft and Accessories'.
Welcome to the introductory page of Bamboo Specialists of New Zealand. We will be adding our comprehensive website soon. Feel free to contact us about any enquiries regarding all bamboo plants available in this country, their uses and the services we provide.  P. I.

...Instant height roof top, shallow bed and lush garden specimens
 Bamboo Specialists  is proud to affiliate with expert colleagues to undertake all bamboo related services. (see links and referrals below) Our range covers :  starter plants for edible bamboo shoot crops, tall bamboo shelterbelts, agro-forestry bamboo fibre flooring industry investment., remedial bamboo for coastal conditions, riparian & flood plain stabilizers, land retention & multiuse farm biomass bamboo, renewable high country carbon credits and stock utility, multi-floor atrium & urban courtyard, green roof & balcony bamboo planters,  bamboo forests & specialty gardens.

 Australia's NSW Byron Bay clever water cycling initiative- Bangalow_Bamboo_Innovation_Watercycle_Management.pdf

Our other services include : bamboo privacy screenscapes & hedges, landscaping with bamboo, Containing: garden restoration & confining. Maintenance - plant thinning, reducing, enhancing, or removal of bamboo roots, cutting & harvesting bamboo poles free of charge, (conditions apply).

The excellent work of ORE -Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment- Bamboo a useful tool to counter soil erosion on hillsides and ravines.

Bamboo poles : prepare lengths to make components & profiles  for various contemporary or traditional fences & panels, small to large  crafted bamboo items & replicas, structure assembly for DIY or film sets, festival & corporate events, banners & flags, organic/floral art bamboo, stage props, shop display or long term fittings. We do finishes, heat treatments, & seals.   We also supply Bamboo plants for hire, sheaths & craft accessories and provide guided tours, lectures & workshops. 
Advisers for fence makers, implement design for bamboo plug plants, suitable farm & utility species
We offer personalized designs, base construction, interactive forms, standard or modified plans to suit DIY pole or product use. We make bamboo charcoal and also sell to order brush art, bamboo musical instruments, bamboo plant art material, all by New Zealand artists and naturally grown on our farm.

EXCLUSIVE ART - Unique to a maximum of four only of each creation, artworks by master weaver Li-Jung

Kelvin Falconer's shakuhachi's are presently just $150.00NZ

Our plants require time to produce from field grown stock. Some need ordering. There are over 100 species in our extensive collection of bamboo including Arundinaria, Bambusa, Chiminobambusa, Chusquea, Dendrocalamus, Drepanostachym, Fargesia, Phyllostachys, Pseudosasa, Sasa and more. Our established plantations provide most size bamboo plants & b-trees, poles, canes, rods, stalks, spears and stakes of different lengths & sizes. They come in attractive colours: blue, black, pink, red, yellow, golden, striped, forest, crimson, mottled and more, also in different shapes from square, swollen, elephant, tortoiseshell, arrow, walking stick. Their uses are from fishing rods & decor to  landscape & advertising art.
'Bamboo is the climate change plant for New Zealand too'
 Our useful bamboo is for sub-alpine climates as high protein  sheep, deer and cattle winter shelter & fodder, for amending clay soils, dairy runoff nutrient sequestering, high sheath shedder bamboo for microbial reduction, heavy leaf producers, stream bank fortifying,  for degraded soils & erosion control, upright bamboo as modifier for land contour stabilizing, rural effluent wastewater filter bamboo, heavy metals mining contaminant uptake  bamboo, narrow tall pastoral barrier bamboo, efficient grazing livestock gas converter bamboo, high C & N sequestration bamboo for stakes, pulp & edible shoots, glacial retreat and thawing permafrost reforestation, bare smooth lower trunks bamboo for bird refuge and numerous other uses, packed and freighted through all NZ.
' Always the right bamboo for the purpose'
Contributors and subjects for numerous media articles spanning 64 years.  Top awards in garden events including GARDENZ, Ellerslie Flower Show- gold & silver exhibits sponsors and advisors, consultants to landscape architects, Schools, City Council Parks and Zoos and development plantings.

Contact Pauline Isaachsen on bamboo@iconz.co.nz for quality craftspeople referals, products, price lists, catalogues, quotes, designs, more bamboo images, services and all consultation at competitive prices.

'In the interests of environmental integrity we give a discount off your next purchase in exchange for your tired old potted bamboo plant especially the running varieties purchased from here.' Enquire for details.

All unwanted bamboo plants considered