TO JOIN the Society please send £20 / €30 / $40. Please include your address with postcode, your telephone number including area code and your email address. Cheques should be made payable to THE BAMBOO SOCIETY and be drawn against a British bank account. Cash is acceptable but not non-British cheques. Please read the section below on further information about annual membership, then send your subscription to:

The Bamboo Society
c/o 39 West Square
London SE11 4SPUnited Kingdom

alternatively:

Download PDF membership application form

 

Reasons to join

The Bamboo Society offers its members:

- The opportunity to meet others with an interest in bamboo through its organised events and members directory;

- Expert advice on the identification and cultivation of bamboo, and the obtaining of plants;

- On joining, one free copy of its booklet Bamboo - a simple guide to bamboo and its cultivation in the UK, and three illustrated newsletters every year;

- Outings to gardens containing notable specimens, often combined with meetings and lectures, and;

- An annual general meeting, held at a notable venue such as Kew Gardens, combined with a guided tour of the venue's gardens, such as the Bamboo Garden at RBG Kew.

 

THE BAMBOO SOCIETY maintains links with other bamboo societies throughout the world and holds a collection of their newsletters, which it receives by exchange. It publishes Bamboo - a simple guide to bamboo and its cultivation in the UK (£4.00 + p & p), and also provides information and advice to members of the public both in response to written enquiries and through the Internet at the following address:

http://www.bamboo-society.org.uk