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Mike Lyle wrote:

My experience of untreated bamboo canes is that they snap at ground
level in, I don't know, a year or so?

Mine, too. That is comparable with rods made of the heartwood of
things like oak. Ones made of sapwood or even the heartwood of beech
will rarely last that long. Yew is the only native tree that I know
of that lasts longer, or has durable sapwood.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.