Bamboo Park & Bamboo Nursery

Bamboos, Bamboos and More Bamboos.

Opening times:

Wednesday to Saturday from 10am – 5pm
Other Sundays by appointment.  

Other times than those mentioned above by appointment.

Dutch Bamboo Information Centre
Dorpsweg 125
1697 KJ Schellinkhout
0229-501309 info-charleyyounge@bamboe-ic.nl

Dutch Bamboo Information Centre

www.bamboe-ic.nl (click here)
     (The Netherlands-Belgium)

Direct sales bamboo flooring

How bamboo flooring is made (VIDEO)

(click on the flag)  (International)

“The greatest favour that can be extended to a country is to add a useful plant to its flora.”
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

Ecological Security

 

Bamboo, an adventurous plant

Bamboo is an adventurous plant, conjuring up faint memories of warmer climes in your garden, of paradises. Although with our winters and fickle summers we are unable to create any tropical dream gardens, we are sometimes surprised nonetheless by the existence of plants that thrive tremendously in our climate and that do indeed exude an exotic character.

One person will experience the confrontation as a pleasant shock of recognition. Another will soak in the dramatic effect of the different leaf shapes. And the ever-singing rustle of bamboos in the wind is totally free.

Imagine a garden dominated by broad-leaved plants, interspersed with plants with filigree-thin leaves. Naturally the shape of the plant has to be striking. But the most important thing of all is that the plant is primarily evergreen, for a garden that looks bare in the winter constantly reminds us of the harsh reality that we live in a climate with cold winters. If you take the trouble to look at the evergreen bamboos, then you’ll see what we mean.

Bamboo, a versatile plant

In some cultures a person is accompanied by bamboo literally from the cradle to the grave. The umbilical cord of the newborn is cut using a bamboo knife, the child is rocked to sleep in a bed of bamboo. The house in which they live is made of bamboo. The food they eat always contains an ingredient made from bamboo shoots, and when they die the deceased is carried to his final place of rest on a bamboo pole.

Although bamboo is predominantly an ornamental plant in the Netherlands, there is in the protective shade of bamboos several metres high a Dutch house in which the Western world’s first bamboo flooring floor was laid over 15 years ago, and indeed it is still lying there beautifully. This house is in the Bamboo Park in Schellinkhout.

Bamboo site

There is no bigger difference with the blocks of faceless shoeboxes that you see everywhere, especially on areas devoid of trees and greenery alongside the motorway. It is difficult to conceive of a better biotope for bamboo.

At the place where generally the most work is being done on promoting bamboo, it is getting the pride of place it deserves. Nowhere else is information on bamboo being given out so thoroughly and so comprehensively. In fact it speaks for itself: if you want to buy your greens you go to the greengrocer. The most reliable place for fish is undoubtedly the fishmonger. And you can work out for yourself what the most logical place is for acquiring bamboo in all its varieties.

PLYBOO®, preach and practice

We stand – unreservedly – for the conviction that action speaks louder than words. We advise, we guide, we grow and we buy. We go for bamboo with distinction. For that reason our patio decking, bridge decking and our flooring are among the very best that can be produced using bamboo.



More than fifteen thousand square metres of bamboo park on the IJsselmeer for walking and admiring, less than half an hour’s drive north of Amsterdam. You will not believe your eyes!

And entry is free.




How to reach us:



Route to Schellinkhout, from Amsterdam:

On the Amsterdam ring road take the A8 in the direction of Zaanstad. At Zaanstad, you then go on to the A7, in the direction of Purmerend, Hoorn. At Hoorn take exit 8. Once you have driven to the end of exit 8, follow the signs for Enkhuizen and you will come to a ring road around Hoorn. Heading towards Enkhuizen, keep following until you see the junction for Schellinkhout. Drive into Schellinkhout and you are now on the Dorpsweg, a long, winding street. After ± 2 km there will be a church on your right and we are some 300 metres past the church on the left.

Look out for the sign. Our address is Dorpsweg 125, 1697KJ Schellinkhout.

See you there!

 Bamboo park, a must 
 


For browsing and for sale in the bamboo park:

1:More than 100 kinds of bamboo plant (click here)

https://www.bamboe-ic.nl/de/fargesia (click here)

Largest collection of non-parasitic bamboos in Europe.

(For example, we have the finest and largest collection of Fargesia Bamboos in larger and smaller sizes, from 5 litres to 90 litres – that’s right – for browsing and for sale!

You won’t be disappointed. The bamboos everyone is looking for – you can simply get them from us.)
Garden of Liesbeth Geleijnse. The bamboo used is
Fargesia m. ‘Little John’


2:Direct sales bamboo flooring (click here)

see also:

www.bamboe-ic.nl/nl/producten/bamboe-parket (click here)
     (The Netherlands-Belgium)

www.plyboo.nl (click here)
     (International)

We do not have any distributors, so there are no price deals with the trade. The profit is all yours. Whoever you are, you can buy flooring direct from us! Now.



3: Bamboo stems (click here)




NEW Now available:
BAMBOO YOUNGLE DECKING
( OUTDOOR BAMKIRAI )

At last:
Bamboo wood for outdoor use!

The name:
Bamboo Youngle Decking.
Bamboo terrace decking for garden and balcony!

BAMKIRAI with a B for Beauuutiful,
(harder than the hardest hardwood, without a single tree having to be cut down.)

Sizes:
Length: 187 cm
Width: 14 cm
Thickness: 2 cm


What you can expect from us:

When you get out of the car, you are in fact in the middle of the largest bamboo garden in the Netherlands. (More than 10,000 square metres)! Several metres high, the bamboos literally form a belt of emerald green, consisting of more than 100 types of hardy, evergreen bamboo species.

                                 

Have a good browse, you are most welcome. At the back of the park is where sale of the plants you want takes place. Our vast stock offers you plenty of opportunity to make the right choice.

We are also specialized in the production of exquisite bamboo tables. For more information, see the heading Design by desire.

Fargesias or ornamental bamboos https://www.bamboe-ic.nl/de/fargesia
At the annual plant trade show in Essen, it is not so long ago that the Fargesia was proclaimed bamboo of the year.
For your delectation we have cultivated a large number of the most beautiful Fargesia species for the 2011 season. These are non-parasitic bamboos and they are much requested as a result.

Fargesia is undoubtedly the most suitable bamboo for use as a hedgerow. It is also increasingly held in esteem as the bamboo plant for patio and balcony, because Fargesias form in clumps, are relatively dense and highly flexible.

Due to the properties above, and because they do not grow too tall, they are the most wind-resistant of all bamboos in a box or container.
Forming as it does in clumps, the Fargesia on its own is also an ornament for your garden that can almost not be rivalled, both in the middle of summer and in the depths of winter.(Click here)

Spring 2011
The newest non-parasitic Bamboos.(click here) www.bamboe-ic.nl/de/fargesia
Fargesia m. ‘Mae’ the superior bamboo plant for patio and balcony!


Broadly sprouting cluster formation ( of Robusta )

Advantages:

- As long as it doesn’t freeze over, Fargesias can be grown all year round.
- Fargesias are among those plants that retain their green colour the most during winter.
- Fargesias are the most suitable bamboo plants for use in tubs on the patio or balcony.
- Fargesias are the most suitable bamboo plants for use as a hedgerow.


Narrowly sprouting cluster formation

Balcony and patio bamboos

Now it doesn’t have to be like this at your house! But it did have to be like this at the annual Dutch Forestry Commission. Bamboos on the balcony of the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam, bamboos on the roof, even bamboos in the roof gutter! Everyone was able to gape at this green spectacle in the heart of the capital.





The most bamboo-like bamboos:
With us you will find, in addition to a large number of species of bamboos, the bamboo that appeals more to the imagination than any other in Northern Europe, the Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis', in more than sufficient quantities.


We are the exclusive stockists of this plant in the Netherlands, from 100-litre container pot to a small beginner’s plant of 1 litre.



PHYLLOSTACHYS, the most bamboo-like of bamboos (let 's youngle your garden!)

Of all the hardy, evergreen bamboos that grow in Northern Europe the Phyllostachys variety is, due to its stem formation and spectacular growth, undoubtedly the most bamboo-like bamboo around.

What to one person is a parasitic bamboo is to another person a plant with a tendency to grow profusely and enthusiastically. Here in the Bamboo Park the strong tendency to grow shared by most bamboos is always accompanied by a selection of friendly synonyms. If you manage to keep the natural growth of your Phyllostachi somewhat under control in your garden, then you will be rewarded with what you will experience in this park for a time, short or otherwise: the feeling of walking in the clouds, in a kind of pocket paradise.


The ladies, their partner and his shoots.


Shoots of the Phyllostachys nigra ''Boryana''. Schellinkhout.



Narihira Dake.
A dense, tall bamboo hedge.
A beautiful bamboo.
A green bamboo.
A majestic, upright bamboo.
Even:
The most upright of all bamboos.
The name: Narihira Dake

Want to know more? click here

The nursery:(click here)
Did you know that the most beautiful evergreen bamboos that you see everywhere in the Netherlands are cultivated in the heart of the province of Noord-Holland?

Our nursery sells an impressive range (over 100 species) of hardy and evergreen bamboo plants. Full attention is given to cultivating state-of-the-art bamboo plants, which are carefully tested for frost-resistance, ideal manuring and options for use in the Dutch garden.

And all plants are standardly available at our premises in Schellinkhout! Our large stock gives you the best guarantee of availability.

Public Greenery:(click here)
A good number of public greenery projects have been implemented progressively by the bamboo park.

 

 







 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

 
Plants:(click here)
More than 100 hardy and evergreen species of Bamboo are available for sale at our premises. In our park you will find every plant in its mature form, so you know what you’re getting yourself in for.

Stems:(click here)
At our premises there are bamboo stems galore. From a saté stick to enormous stems with lengths of up to a good 12 metres. (New: blue/black & green stems!)

 

 

 

Chinatown
Beverwijk Brimming With Bamboo



Entrance Chinatown

Bouwen met bamboe:(click here)
Building with bamboo:(click here)
-La Scala, the opera and the orient.
-Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (15 October 2003-10 February 2004).
-Bamboo church towers (2004/2005).
-Bamboo narrow arched bridge for cyclists and pedestrians (2004/2005). -Traditional fencing and wattling (2004).
-Next order (2004/2005) -Bamboo technology

 

 

 


The new giraffe house (the Savanna House) in Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam 2008/2009

Architect: Lam Architects bna.

 

Flooring flooring: (click here)
.....The bamboo park is the birthplace of all bamboo flooring in Western Europe. Here lies the Western world’s very first bamboo flooring floor! If you click on flooring flooring you will find good reasons to buy your bamboo flooring in Schellinkhout.

Bamboo consultancy:(click here)
Professional advice.

Bamboo as renewable material.(click here)
Who we are and what we stand for.

Big Bamboo Business:(click here)
The superlative grade in the bamboo park: Better Best Bamboo!

Articles by and about us:(click here)
Tall trees catch much wind.
Tall bamboos as well then.

 

 


Charley Younge
Dutch Bamboo Information Centre
Park and Nursery
Dorpsweg 125
1697 KJ Schellinkhout
tel: 0229-501309
fax: 0229-501970

Email: info-charleyyounge@bamboe-ic.nl

Have a look as well at the site of vanhiertottokio, or Fargesia
and on the New Zealand bamboo site.

Another good site is : zalmvissen.com

www.worldbamboo.net

www.worldbamboocongress.org