Re: bamboo
- To: "Bob Shelby/Maura O'Neill"
- Subject: Re: bamboo
- From: B* S*
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:36:20 -0700
>** Reply to note from Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz> Sat, 09 Oct
>1999 21:31:40 +1300
>Sorry, Barbara I must have deleted your original note on this
>but I just remembered reading in the paper a month ago, or so,
>that most of the existing bamboo is going to flower and die soon
>(seems like within the next few years -did anyone else see this? it was
>in the Santa Cruz Sentinal...)
>-could this possibly take care of your problem?
>
>Maura O'Neill, Boulder Creek, CA, USA
>(on the San Lorenzo River, in the SLValley, aprox. 15 miles east of
>the Pacific Ocean, as the crow flies,
>-about 10 miles north of Santa Cruz
>and about 70 miles south of San Francisco)
>Sunset zone 15 (more or less)
Wow, I don't know but I hope so! Could that mean all varieties of bamboo,
and everywhere on earth, or just some? Well--if everyone who wants bamboo
could then plant black bamboo or other clumping varieties which hardly
spread that would certainly solve the invasion problem.
Barbara
