On 16 Nov 2003 09:08:12 -0800, (Beecrofter) wrote:

And I can pronounce Phyllostachys out loud now and even kill a few
Fargesias which really resent our summers.
Somewhere along the way I got kind of curious about Japanese gardens
too and then beacame an extension master gardener and I think I got a
scratch into the surface.
You just give me another 50 years and just you look out.


HERE! have fifty years and fifty more! there is a Zen saying about
painting of bamboo;

If you would paint bamboo, study bamboo for a thousand years, forget
bamboo, then, paint bamboo!

hermine