Re: Phormium tenax
- To: k*@iol.ie
- Subject: Re: Phormium tenax
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:00:55 -0700
kelbaert@iol.ie writes:
>Edward's question regarding the "cutting back" of a Phormium tenax brought
>to the fore a vision of the workman I got in a couple of years ago, to do
>just that to an enormous P. tenax outside of my studio window, the plant
>almost completely obliterating the light from the window.
>I see him now hacking away at the monster with his axe. He eventually
>reduced the plant to about half of it's original volume. Now, I may add,
>it
>has resumed it's dimensions and once more cuts out the light from the
>wndow.
>Back to the gentle snip, snip of the axe?
Perhaps a small thermonuclear device would be more efficient =) ? (Which
reminds me, not even the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were able
to kill off the bamboo groves, nor the Ginkgo trees).
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Time was I stood where thou dost now
And view'd the dead as thou dost me
Ere long you'll lie as low as I
And others stand and gaze at thee
