Side Fence Planting Project: Check!

Brain cancer is...

The Holes

The Bamboo in the Holes

...planting 10 bamboo plants against our new fence.

We had several requirements for the plants:

1. They do not need support from the fence (no drilling holes and no tying to the pickets).
2. They need to have height to be seen from our windows (but not too tall).
3. They need to have limited width so as not to impair the walkway beside the house (and require limited trimming to accomplish this).

Hence, we called Andi's Mom (LuAnn) and she recommended clumping bamboo, which meets all of the requirements!  

The underground stem and root system of bamboo is called a rhizome.  (You may recall our recent rhizome discoveries here and here).  

One of Our Rhizomes

Thanks, Anne Marie, for keeping our little rhizomes wet while we were at the cabin!

The bamboo should be producing shoots soon!  Speaking of shoots reminds us of an old joke.

A panda walks into a bar. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why asks the confused waiter, as the panda walks towards the exit. "I'm a panda.  Look it up."  "Panda: China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Hope your day is funnier than that joke!

Today's Bloom

We channeled Georgia O’Keeffe at Yorba Regional Park today.  Side note:  O’Keeffe’s  Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44 million at auction (here).  It remains the most expensive painting by a woman.  We’ll print you a copy of our version (also by a woman) for way less than that!