About Durnford Dart.   (C/V)

‘Mr. Bamboo’ is the name by which Durnford Dart is popularly known today throughout Australia. From farmers to manufacturers, related product producers, to purpose cultivation specialists, Durnford Dart is generally acknowledged as this country’s Bamboo growing and marketing expert.

After serving 6 years in the R.A.A.F. and building a highly successful business in the Auto Recycling business, his love for the land ( he was raised on a farm ) led him to establish, in 1989, ‘Belli Bamboo Parkland’ located west of the popular seaside resort town of Noosa Heads in Queensland.

He is now recognised in the massive Asian Bamboo Industry through scores of fact finding visits, co-operative planting programs and bamboo variety experiments here in Australia. His thirst for knowledge has led him to China, Thailand, Japan, U.S.A, Costa Rica and many other countries world wide where he has lived and worked on farms in most countries collecting valuable information to share with Australians. He was contracted as a consultant by the Bank of China to assist in the supervision in the planting of a 300 m2 garden of Moso (Phyllostachys pubescens) in the bank’s new headquarters building in Beijing. Such is his global recognition.