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Come visit our 60 Acre waterfront nursery.
Our family owned and operated company ships over 7000 bamboo divisions throughout North America each year. We have been growing bamboo since 1985 and selling online since 1995. As one of the largest providers we sell only premium divisions. With an annual inventory of over 10,000 containerized bamboo we are able to select only the best.

We provide a green product and strive to deliver it to you with little negative impact on the environment. We use recycled bags in our shipping and use boxes made from recycled materials. We also use organic methods when possible to provide the best products we can.

Second generation owner, Roger Lewis, Jr. with his lovely wife Rachel. She is very knowledgeable and usually the person you talk to when you call our nursery.

Above photo was made several years ago of our little family.

Founders
Roger Sr. and Gayle Lewis
Retire on June 2006

"Much has happened over the years and we have proudly passed our love of bamboo to our one and only child. Now the time has come for us to step back from the labor intensive nursery business. Our company grew from simple honest principals. As time passed, we have found the importance of simplicity and God.

We continue to live by these standards and have greatly simplified our lives. We now enjoy our lovely grand daughter Harper. Gayle and Roger Sr. can now enjoy the fruits of our many years of hard work."

Its time for us to relax!

Gayle & Roger Sr.

Growing bamboo at the current nursery site since 1985, Roger Sr. and Gayle Lewis
operated the very first Alabama Bamboo Nursery with a web site in 1995 under the
name Wolf Creek Bamboo. It was named after the river the nursery was established
on. The business quickly expanded and was renamed Lewis Bamboo Groves.

Lewis Bamboo Groves grew rapidly and in October 2003 the nursery
incorporated under the direction of Roger Jr. as Lewis Bamboo Inc.

Through years of experience we found if you provide excellent bamboo and customer
service, your customer base will grow. When you call there will be a member of
the Lewis family to answer your questions and take the order.

No matter how much we grow, Lewis Bamboo Inc. will provide excellent bamboo
divisions and service to all our customers.

Please take time to explore our web site and see the photos of our customers.
There are hundreds and hundreds of pictures to enjoy on the original
'Our Bamboo News' which goes back several years.

February 2007, Fox News at Lewis Bamboo. Click here to read about
the interview and bamboo special.

In 2006 the Associated Press picked up a feature story done on our nursery.
You can also see this at this link on
'Our Bamboo News'.

No other bamboo nursery has these special pages which are dedicated to our thousands
of customers.

Feel free to contact any of our commercial clients listed on Our Bamboo News Index.
We have done business with many large companies. There are many landscaping
companies, automobile plants, botanical gardens, golf courses, malls, theaters,
schools, TV programs and the list goes on.
Click here to see them.

Lewis Bamboo will continue to expand to meet consumer needs and always value any size bamboo order.

Our bamboo hobby turned into a large business that we hope is making the world a greener place. Over the years, Roger Sr. and Gayle passed the love of this beautiful plant onto their only child, Roger Jr.

This photo of Roger was made several years ago in our Moso grove.

He graduated with honors in 1999, BS in Business Management, from the University of Alabama. Roger is a state licensed landscaper and now owns and operates Lewis Bamboo, Inc.

In 2003, Gayle and Roger Sr. opened 'Bamboo Design' which does some contract work with Lewis Bamboo Inc.

To the right, Gayle is shown in the Moso grove next to a giant new Moso shoot. Gayle served for years as the webmaster for the American Bamboo Society's Southeast Chapter. She also held the office of a director for the Southeast Chapter.

To the right, Roger Sr. in 1992, digging 'Moso' divisions. He has always loved bamboo and will continue to work with this beautiful plant as long as he can.

We are all very active members of the American Bamboo Society. We attend meetings and volunteer regularly to clean up groves to restore them to their natural beauty. On February 15, 2003 Gayle was elected as the director for the Southeast Chapter of the ABS, also on October 17, 2003 she was selected to be the webmaster. She proudly served in these positions and will always continue do her part to spread the love of bamboo.

We attended a chapter meeting at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens where Roger Sr. was honored to be asked to sit on a panel. The panel taught and answered questions from the public. Left to right, Steve Ray, Roger Sr., Harry Abel, and Robby Russell (check out the photos on 'Our Bamboo News'.

The Southeast Chapter chose to meet at Lewis Bamboo. Photos of prominent bambuseros in the South and information about the meeting can be viewed here Bamboo Chapter Meeting.

We have many repeat customers and the reasons are simple. After comparing the size, species and total price, you too will find we offer the most bamboo for less. Our nursery uses standard sizes which we list and have photographs demonstrating the size through out our web site. We do not ship our bamboo bare root. We add water plus peat moss to ensure your bamboo arrives healthy with a moist root ball.

In 2007, Lewis Bamboo was happy to add a new Operational Manager, Denny Kilgore. Den had nearly ten years of garden center management experience at the nation's largest retail chain. Now a valued employee, Den has been a friend of the family for over 30 years and we are happy to have him on our team.
	Special Projects Manager, Sidney Busby working hard to help our business provide you will great bamboo. Sid has been my closest friend since grade school. For over 25 years, Sid has always been there when we needed him.

Look over our site, visit our Customer Comments page and look over the many Commercial Site listings that have done business with us. Call or email us, we will do what it takes to make you happy.

Thank you for your interest in our site and we hope everyone can see the significance
of this beautiful plant and the major role it can play in helping our environment.

Hope to see you at our next 'Open House'.

THE LEWIS FAMILY

Below, we will back track a little and bring you up to date.


April, 17th. 2005 Roger Jr. and his lovely wife, Rachel. In 2005, their first daughter, Harper, was in storage and on the way!
	Here is our beautiful little girl, Harper
Here is Harper with her first piece of bamboo at three weeks old.
	Here she is already smiling, feeling right at home in a bamboo grove.



	She has loved bamboo even from a young age and we hope she will continue this family founded business.