Many zoos, climate permitting, grow the plants that are used to help feed their animals. The Phoenix Zoo, with plenty of irrigation, can grow lots of bamboo which provides food and habitat and even fencing!
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About Me
- Kathy
- I am a retired court reporter now working part time as a proofreader. In December 2010 I returned to my roots in Deep East Texas to care for my aging mother after having lived in Arizona for over 30 years. I live on a farm in Nacogdoches County near the Louisiana border. This blog is a repository for pictures of subjects that I find interesting in my travels up and down the country roads throughout the Piney Woods. I love to take pictures of farm animals and equipment, old houses, barns and sheds and anything that has vines or rust on it.
27 comments:
This is sure unique! I like it.
me & the hubs love bamboo. at the house he lived at when we 1st met. it was every where. like a huge forest of nothing but bamboo. it was so cool!! (:
This has a very Zen-like feel to it. :)
Hubby and I passed a stand of bamboo just the other day when we were out driving. It grows tall and straight here.
neat! i was wondering where this would have been!
So cool! I love that the zoo is using bamboo this way. I like the "x" of the stalks here. :)
I like this unusual fence; it makes a striking picture!
Lovely shot of this very Zen fence, Kathy!
PS: Yes, Texas reminded us a lot of Australia when we visited.
Bamboo makes for some nice fencing.
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Love the bamboo, Kathy! It's not often you see that.
I love bamboo as fencing, or as building materials...but I never want to grow it - it is so invasive! This is a gorgeous fence!
makes a pretty fence but impossible to get rid of once you get it growing!
Nice. I bet there is a panda lurking around somewhere.
Have people carved their names in this? Is that what I'm seeing? Sad.
There is something very tranquil about bamboo.
Bamboo is such a versatile plant! I hadn't even noticed the names carved into the stalks until I read what Magpie wrote!
When I see bamboo, I always think of cane fishing poles- it does make a nice fence though!
Awesome photo! We had a problem last fall, Kathy, with some inexperienced zoo helpers feeding oleander to the giraffes! One died and one was sick for a while. It was sad.
We have lots of bamboo in our backyard but no animals to eat it unfortunately. So we had to cut some down to have a new fence, because the old one had fallen apart. But it wasn't easy to get the bamboo away, it is deep in the ground...
Bamboo is a wonderful natural fencing but not one your neighbors would appreciate your installing, especially if any of the canes take root. A real plant thug, I believe?
I love it! It has all the elements of a great photo!
Bamboo has lots of uses!
I like how you blended the living trees with the bamboo fence. Nice!
Very good! Bamboo is great.
makes for a beautiful fence
Lovely composition of live and dead bamboo.
Hi Kathy, in the Philippines bamboo can also be a house. In the rural areas they split and clean the bamboo. It takes a lot of bamboos but the result it is a house which many of the people there call home. ^_^
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Yes, it does make a lovely fence. I didn't realize how invasive bamboo was until I glanced through the comments...kinda reminds me of berry briers!
I use dried bamboo poles to gentle wild mustang horses too.
Love the angles created by the growing bamboo.
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