Bamboos

Without a moment's delay, some of them cut great palm-branches to interpose between the burning house and the overhanging eaves of our dwelling; others tore apart the framework, scattered the bundles of plants, and beat the flames with green branches; while the Tenimber natives poured on water, which they carried in gourds and bamboos from the sea close by. ❋ Unknown (1887)

It seems likely that among the 1,250 species of the woody grasses known as bamboos, good hedge species can be found or bred for both temperate and tropical regions. ❋ Unknown (1993)

The best live fences are often made up of a combination of several species, such as bamboos, shrubs and vines ❋ Unknown (1992)

"You holds the bamboos down or on one side, and as soon as you're gone by up they springs again; and that's why they're called bamboos, I s'pose -- because they bamboozle you. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Syon Park, London home of the Duke Of Northumberland, will have its oaks and bamboos glowing in various shades to provide a magical and jaw-dropping spectacle. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bamboo forest is so beautiful and it reminds me of our neighbor he had a lot of bamboo and his house look like haunted because his house covered by many bamboos and. the bamboo grows taller and bigger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His story goes like this the bamboos before is bonsai he give it to his girlfriend he loves her so much by the help of/through him his girlfriend finish her study despite of everything he left him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I think of her dying I still see that landscape, the bamboos swaying below the window, the valley beyond, the small farmhouses and the tawny fields, the late gleaners moving slowly across them, women and children in their peasant blue, and beyond them again the distant mountains. ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

In spite of them I loved the tropical nights, the great luna moths, jade green and spotted with black and silver, clinging to the big gardenia bushes in the garden, and the bamboos dim in the mists from the river. ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

News at Eleven: These poems by Samuel Beckett need to be read three-dimensionally: that is, turned slowly until the variety of each poem's facets bring pleasure, if not always sense: "grave suave singing silk/stoop to the black firmament of areca/rain on the bamboos flowers of smoke alley of willows"--"areca" being a palm producing astringent nuts excremental activity is a Beckett motif. ❋ Rus Bowden (2010)

Evoking the space of a forest, or of a group of bamboos on a surface of water, has been the main aim of the project. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Powerless to intervene, Carie stayed indoors all through the next day with the twelve-year-old Grace, knowing and trying not to hear what was happening outside: “She never forgot the pity of those ladies, delicately nurtured and sheltered all their lives, hunted now like deer and lying among the bamboos dead, their satin gowns spotted with blood.” ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

Thin - or soft-leaved plants, including bamboos, are a disaster up here, because they lose water so fast through the leaf surface that they just shrivel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Understorey contains ferns (including tree fern Dicksonia selowiana), piperaceae, leguminosae, mirtaceae and bamboos. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Primitive grasses such as the bamboos and modern grasses that live at higher latitudes or elevations where temperatures in the growing season are relatively cool, mostly have the more typical C3 photosynthesis predominating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A great deal of the history of grasses was clearly not captured in the fossil record, notably the evolutionary radiation from primitive proto-bamboos to modern grasses in the Eocene and Oligocene. ❋ Unknown (2009)