Tanabata Wish

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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