Bamboo -- The Tradition of the Future

Click above to go to a lovely video on bamboo

I looove Bamboo. Even the word. In Chinese, 竹, zhú, a pictogram, doesn't even need explaining, the two tall shoots (culms), some early glyphs of the character here. 

I've built stuff out of bamboo -- benches, plant holders, cutting boards, bamboo culm brush holders... Nowadays you can get boat interiors in bamboo, light, hydrophobic. 

We have a bamboo grove in a stone pathway -- very Asian....

Our bamboo grove. Next to my study