Perhaps I'll have time to plan something for the seventh night of the seventh month, according to the lunisolar calendar (ie: August 2nd this year).
I'll be somewhere without bamboos that day, but perhaps the olive tree nearby will replace the bamboos... or I'll rely on a baby banana tree (for grass solidarity, you know)... I'll see what I can do.
Oddly enough, I think my wish on tanzaku is going to be to save our mini bamboo grove, which I've been ordered to slaughter.
Back when it was planted, I suggested something to contain the rhizome, but I was ignored. Fast forward ten years later, and the three bamboos have settled nicely, and are spreading beautifully. If I were in the country house all year round, I could contain the new ones, but since I'm mostly in town, it's been decided (I disagree, but I can't "vote") that they've all got to go.
Last year, I was watching and admiring the Perseids, near the mini-grove, and the wind gently singing in the leaves as I tried to spot meteors was a lovely bonus that I shall miss if the slaughter's finished by mid-August...
The mini-grove was planted too close to a thick bush of laurels.
I've left a (huge) new bamboo hidden in the heart of the laurels... Perhaps that baby (but already big) bamboo will survive? *fingers crossed*
I hate being ordered to cut healthy plants.
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2 comments:
When I went off to uni int eh late 80's my mum wouldn't feed my many healthy and happy house plants, so I was made to put them in the border! fast forward 10 years and most have long gone but one thrived, but a bit too well as it was now so big it was scratching the pint of the car parked in the drive! cue another heart wrenching loss as a new mum of three small kids I had no way to take the behemoth home! You think I would learn but I now have so many at work my boss is refusing to let me put my plants in the new library so my poor new office will be a jungle! Good luck to the Bamboo ;-)
I'm sorry your mother didn't feed your plants and you lost them. *hugs*
It's a pity your boss doesn't want plants in the new library; plants are cool with books. Silly bunny!
Thanks, but the bamboo's seriously on death row, and another healthy plant fell under the wheels of someone who come and helps Mother with garden stuff. He was in a hurry and drove over it; I could have cried. ;_;
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