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Post by jamesp on Jun 2, 2013 21:13:31 GMT -5
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Post by Pat on Jun 2, 2013 22:15:52 GMT -5
Your property is so pretty...
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Post by jamesp on Jun 2, 2013 23:13:55 GMT -5
Thanks Pat.
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Post by kk on Jun 3, 2013 1:31:07 GMT -5
There is no need to come to Asia for you. Besides the needle trees, It looks just like in our countryside. Only your arrangement is much better organized.
Lovely piece of heaven you have got there.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 3, 2013 7:19:56 GMT -5
Never thought about the comparison.Bamboo and lotus are from your neighborhood.I am sure that our eyes would be opened by a visit to either location.The bamboo is happy with clay soil,humidity/heat and mild winters.The bamboo also reduces the amount of grass to mow:>
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Post by kk on Jun 3, 2013 7:38:23 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jun 3, 2013 9:36:03 GMT -5
You guys probably use it for manufacuring and - food! -haha I bet you guys harvest any shutes you can find for the kitchen.One of the best tatsing bamboos is P.Dulcis.Probably grows in your mountains. You guys probably grow special variety for scaffolds-do you know what i mean?We in US are freaked out by 'Psycho Bamboo Scaffolds' LOL Are you guys CRAZY !!!   Tied together w/ropes!!!!Are you guys totally crazy!!!  |
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Post by kk on Jun 3, 2013 10:37:32 GMT -5
Nope, not crazy. Less accidents with that stuff than the "conventional" scaffold in the west and the face of a 40 story building is covered in scaffold in a day or two, ready to be worked at. No rusting, no nails sticking out anywhere. Tied together traditionally with bamboo-fiber but today they use plastic-strips. Using a knot that cant be oprened and has to be cut when removal is needed. This type of bamboo is specially grown in China and imported. Building scaffolding like that is a dying art. Does not pay enough to get younger people to sign up and with all the building going on in China itself, there is no need for them to come here as the salaries for them have leveled out and are the same today on either side of the border. But I do have to admit your first picture there is rather cool. Have not seen the scaffold sticking out that far horizontally under the roof of our convention center here. Need to hang a neon sign half way across a road, just inches above double-Decker buses? No problem, without stopping the traffic for a single second when you use this method.  Bamboo shoots: yes we eat them, but they are more likely to come from Indonesia in a can, than from ones backyard. People simply have gotten to lazy to care about the things that grow all around them. Right now, I should not need to buy fruits from the market, just take a walk and you could fill your fridge with an assortment of fresh fruit, in a couple of hours for free. |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 3, 2013 13:45:22 GMT -5
Is it true those scaffolds have been known to stay standing after typhoons?I know that those are very strong and liteweight scaffolds and the string/tie wrap attachment is very effective.Excellent ingenuity and technology.OSHA would shut us down (govt safety group).We are very conservative about going high in air.Do not let the government regulators ruin your country!:>
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2013 16:11:46 GMT -5
Is it true those scaffolds have been known to stay standing after typhoons?I know that those are very strong and liteweight scaffolds and the string/tie wrap attachment is very effective.Excellent ingenuity and technology. It completely makes sense that a flexible product like bamboo would hold up to a typhoon better than inflexible metal. Natural, renewable, traps CO2, safer..... you'd think our leaders would love it! |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 3, 2013 17:29:12 GMT -5
It is also used as concrete reinforcement.Several serious books written about it.
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Post by kk on Jun 3, 2013 18:05:32 GMT -5
Have not seen or heard about concrete reinforcement, but would not be surprised as bamboo is easily the most versatile plant in the market.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 3, 2013 18:23:47 GMT -5
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Post by grayfingers on Jun 3, 2013 21:00:24 GMT -5
I love how lush the growth is on your place, Looks like some nice forest behind too. Also enjoyed the dissertation on bamboo!
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Post by helens on Jun 3, 2013 22:44:35 GMT -5
Ahh... I think my lotus are stunted... they're not nearly so big...
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Post by kk on Jun 3, 2013 23:03:47 GMT -5
Love lotus? Let me dig out some pics I took as a tour-guide visiting the monasteries around here. Always loved hanging around the ponds and taking pics (firstly just after a rain-shower). |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 4, 2013 4:55:44 GMT -5
Montana resident has the scenary.I know your territory is awesome Bill.
Do not compare your lotus to those lotus Helen.It is totally impossible to grow lotus in a container and have them get super robust.Those are growing unrestricted in rich rich soil.You can do about like that if you grow them in a 4 or 5 foot kid pond.
I had suggested you doing that in the beginning.It's not to late.
kk,you live in land of lotus.I believe they are on your menu.The pink and white are native to Asia.Here,the yellow lotus is the only
native lotus here.It is difficult to grow.Your asiatic lotus is a 'weed',easy to grow LOL.I love to eat the green seeds that develop in the flower head.About 12 mm across and taste just like sweet peanuts.The roots are a bit wood like and bland.Do up some photos please.
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Post by kk on Jun 4, 2013 5:55:46 GMT -5
wow, I think I got myself into trouble here. What to select without making it a monster post? OK lets try to keep it to ten pics.  Always loved to take pics just after thunderstorms  Sometimes the locals would join me   Reflections are another    Not only plants  But I do like also taking pics of our neighbors In house  And nearby  Unfortunately, the number of water-buffaloes living freely here is decreasing in equal parts of bloody foreigners moving in. Ok lets finish with the best shot that I ever got of a lotus. Was taken in the middle of a Thunderstorm at lunchtime. Needed flash just to get a focus. Was lucky and got the raindrop rebounding after hitting the water.  Best regards, Kurt |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 4, 2013 6:43:54 GMT -5
Great photos Kurt.I see the effect of the rain.The purple flower is a tropical plant.You must live in a place that has warm winters.That water is very clear.Are there crocodillians?
Bat photo is insane.Talk about sticking together LOL.That ox looks like a tough customer.Is he in a fence?
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Post by kk on Jun 4, 2013 7:21:40 GMT -5
Our winters never went to freezing in 25 years that I have been here. So in comparison, yes we got mild winters. All the photos are from ponds, so yes the water is still. We do have a small type of native aligator in south china, but none in Hong Kong. Water buffaloes here are the Asian type, very different from the Australian ones. They are huge, but essentially harmless and very gentle creatures as such. City folks and foreigners come out here on weekends and know that they are harmless, but when you sneak up on a 1.5 tonne creature (bulls do sometimes get to that life weight) you startle them and accidents happen. Stray abandoned dogs chasing them gets them nervous too. But as said before they are weary but harmless. I took this picture by crawling on all 4 to within inches of the (possibly) 2 week old baby without rousing any of the adults sitting in the mud-hole. Just to be able to do that, shows you how easy going they are. They are descendants from former farm-animals that over time where abandoned and live freely in and around the village. From time to time, one will come through the village itself and feasting on your flowers overnight, possibly leaving a present on your front-door to grow new ones. |
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