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My daughter thought that she wanted lots of bamboo in her yard until recently when it started taking over the yard and threatened to spread to the neighbor's yard. After much expense and effort it is hopefully "in check" right now....at least. I sent the following email to her and thought you might enjoy it. I hope she did. I attached 3 different pictures of cute pandas eating bamboo to further "dress up" the email. You will only be able to see one of those here. Sorry! Tee hee!!!!
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Dear Lynn,
Maybe you'll want to add a panda to your list of pets after you read the following.
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Bamboo-zled
A couple of hundred years ago someone dropped off some bamboo plants on our shores. They came from China or somewhere in Asia. Like Kudzu and other invasive, hardy greenery, the bamboo has spread like wildfire. It has, to date, engulfed untold U.S. acres. This import is near impossible to kill and quite unwelcome. Options are few but the main defense is to cut it back until you wear it out. Another approach is to spray it with herbicide. You might ask why China, which has had bamboo since the beginning of time, isn't over-run with the stuff. Well, they have pandas that eat 40 pounds of bamboo daily. Not much of an option for us, alas.
