“…and currently, its flower stalk is growing five to six inches per day.” Uh, wow.
Many years ago, I had a friend who spent the summer in a rented bungalow with the bedroom adjacent to a garden where some misguided individual had planted bamboo stalks. She had to find a new place to sleep once she realized that the creaking noise she heard at night was the sound of the bamboo growing.
May 18th, 2014 at 4:07PM
“…and currently, its flower stalk is growing five to six inches per day.” Uh, wow.
Many years ago, I had a friend who spent the summer in a rented bungalow with the bedroom adjacent to a garden where some misguided individual had planted bamboo stalks. She had to find a new place to sleep once she realized that the creaking noise she heard at night was the sound of the bamboo growing.
May 18th, 2014 at 5:38PM
MattF: Yes – bamboo is very creepy.