I told you, when I see moss I just have to stop and look. If my camera is nearby I need to photograph too.
One of the least "in your face" bamboos in my yard for most of the year is Sasa veitchii, also called "kuma saza" bamboo. It's mostly overlooked because of its size: only about a foot tall at most right now, and also because of its location in my garden.
I've mentioned that I've been wanting to create a highly-detailed map of my yard for some time. I did some experiments with a camera on a long pole, and recently posted several labeled photos of my plants in preparation for the map.
Last weekend when I visited the large grove of bamboo near my house, I was excited. Not only because I had found a "walk-through" grove of bamboo nearby, but I also found something else that I'm always interested in: big rocks.
I've said again and again how mild it's been this winter, which is perfectly fine by me. It's perfectly fine by most of my plants too, and today I'll illustrate just what that means by comparing the state of my bamboos this year to their state at the same time last year.
A while ago (I can't believe it's been almost 3 weeks already!) I got a couple of new succulents, one of which is going to someday be put into my succulent terrarium. Whenever I get around to it. Soon. The smaller of the two plants won't be going in the terrarium I decided, since there's not really room for it.
This first winter with a pond in the garden, I'm getting the idea that I'll never be short of photographic subjects again.
A couple of weekends ago I was at the community mulch pile, picking up a load of free mulch. There was another crazy gardener there -- the crazy ones are those that pick up loads of mulch in January -- and we started talking about bamboo. Okay, I started talking about bamboo, but he added something really significant to the conversation: he told me about a large bamboo "forest" (as he called it) just a couple of miles away.
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