I took off on Sunday to see an HPSO open garden (that Loree covered here) and couldn’t convince Greg to go with me, which is crazy because he really would’ve liked it. When I got back he said, “I made a change in the backyard.” Those words always make me nervous.
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After we put the bamboo in the stock tank it dramatically turned yellow (Laurrie says it was pulling its energy into root reformation), a few of the culms died, and then it greened up again. I hit it with fish emulsion last week and it responded by sending up new culms. We still had a bare section in the middle of the tank so Greg dug up the last of the in-ground bamboo and got it in the tank, after removing the dead stalks.
I’ve never known how two-gardener households landscape without killing each other. I *might* be able to do it if it involved more surprises like this. I think we need a second stock tank now, no?



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