Wanting to know all about which of the seven to nine forms of F. nitida have flowered, and which have not, yet, should my posting be to the BmBu Identification Forum?

Dear LionInSunHeart,
Think about Thamnocalamus tesselatus, the one from southern Africa.
Gunnar

Dear Bill,
Now, in March, has the ice melted?
May we have an update on the mystery bamboo from 25 miles away?
Gunnar

So OK, maybe the S. cernua really is, and is not just mislabled; maybe the only apparent difference between S. palmata nebulosa and S. cernua is the lack of discolorations on the culm, and a size disparity proportional to the containers; but whop the hay, Pseudosasa japonica grows side by side with ...

I purchased, at the ABS\PNWC auction in May, 2000, a 1glncn of Sasa cernua (Ha! research THAT one) which has grown up to be the non-nebulosa form of S. palmata. Really. For 5 dollars.

...and seems to be unaffected by snow-covered 13?F in Dec., and 18?F with wind and sun in Jan.(muy peligroso) and STILL looks... sooooo goooood![/u]

It's soo slooow !

From the Wikipedia entry...(Tsar Bomb, or Kuzka's mother) "Much of its high yield was?in terms of organic destruction?inefficiently radiated upwards into space." But in the five decades since, the worlds jet airplanes have been crisscrossing and crisscrossing and crisscrossing and...throug...

'Twas a decade ago that at the Seattle Flower Show the PNW/ABS had a demo of the "Incense Bamboo", then Ph. congesta but now Ph. atrovaginata. THAT was the odor of my grandmother's Mah Jong set, the tiles of which were ivory laminated onto bamboo. Hadn't ever thought the wonderful scent wa...

Plants Buttons? Buttons? Do I miss some things here in Safari 1.0.3? "I dont gots to see no steenkin buttons" paraphrasing treasured Sierra Madre lines.


'You can work in dirt but lead a clean life', Japanese proverb

I'd suggest going back to the CommunityGarden, finding the largest superfluous culm, cutting it off, and looking for the square-ish cross-section, typical of Chimono. quad.


An old Japanese proverb translates: ?You can work in dirt but lead a clean life?.

HIDs in the winter basement are a supplelmentary heating source.
The whole system gains in efficiency, tho' with this buzz...er, 60hz hum.

Kimmei=?Kim my?; two words

Hello John;
In response to your posting, I would be pleased to purchase the F. 'Jiuzhaigou 1' and the Pleio. hindsii. Please email me the requirements.
Thanks, G.

Has anyone EVER reported mites being damaged by cold temperatures?