4Foot Granite panda statue

[BooKing]

I saw the next best thing compared to a live panda- a pure granite 4Ft chiseled panda statue . I am going back tomorrow to take a few pics.
It is for sale but has a large $$$ amount to it. Has anyone else ever seen something similar?

[Jeff: Igor's Apprentice]

Cool, now all you need is a clumping bamboo with a gold vase-like planter and we can REALLY have fun with the GW LB forum.

[Iowaboo]

You mean something like gargoyles? If so, it would mean that the panda could still eat your bamboo. Why risk it. It would be cheaper to pay admission to the zoo.

[foxd]

We have wanted a concrete Panda to put in the bamboo for some time, but really don't want to pay much for one because "things happen" in the neighborhood. I could see a car losing control and hitting it, even though it would be 100 feet from the road.

When I walked out the door Saturday morning, I noticed a car had crashed into the limestone sign for the apartment complex across the street. The car had to go over nearly a foot tall curb and go uphill a bit with four flat tires.
I'm not sure which is sadder, that they lost that much control for no particularly good reason, or that nobody had noticed the car being there.

[mantis]

Here is a bamboo water feature I found while searching for a fountain for our yard (my wife has always been against water features, but we saw some neat fountains at the nursery on Saturday, so now we must have one. Not the bamboo one, but a fountain) ...

http://www.designtoscano.com/shopping/p ... uctID=6195

[mantis]

Oh, I forgot, she also wants a Buddha statue for the yard. She is a yoga instructor, so I guess she will start doing yoga in the back yard among the bamboo and Buddha.

[Roy]

Oh, I forgot, she also wants a Buddha statue for the yard. She is a yoga instructor, so I guess she will start doing yoga in the back yard among the bamboo and Buddha.

Kind of like this Buddha giving a high five:

<img src="http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo ... ly.998.jpg" alt="Bambusa tuldoides 'Ventricosa'">

[mantis]

Kind of like this Buddha giving a high five:

Yep, found that same one that is ~38" tall on a website... I imagine shipping would be horrific. I'll have to source it locally.

[BooKing]

The granite panda is 1800$..... that is discounted.

[CadyG]

Maybe the seller would be willing to swap the panda for your parvifolia.

I have a few antique stone sculptures -- a small Buddha head (somehow knocked from its body long ago), a Guan Yin statue that resides in a rock outcrop in my stone wall, and this little Japanese jizo (click on photo to enlarge):

[BooKing]

I have close to 2 dozen concrete and granite statues that are Asian inspired with some as small as 1/2foot high to 6 feet high. The panda statue I definately would trade{1 of my 2} Parvifolia for but the Garden center I saw this at doesn't even know pachymorphs from leptomorphs. They are "Bamboo challenged" to say the least but have one of the best ponds I have ever seen with a 12in thick 18 foot bluestone bridge which is a work of art. I'll take some pics of the panda and the pond in the photo gallery tomorrow.

[CadyG]

Yeah, they probably wouldn't appreciate what they were getting. They are not worthy of parvifolia.

[Roy]

Here's my panda bear statue:

[Jeff: Igor's Apprentice]

Here's my panda bear statue:

And his eyes conceal a video surveilance system.

And the lateral shoot on that bamboo cane is actually the barrel of a gun.

Bamboo thieves beware!

How cute.

[CadyG]

The foliage on that "bamboo" cane looks suspciously like Lucky Bamboo leaves, too.

Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.