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Our Island of (not so) Heavenly Bamboo

May 8, 2018 By Talya Tate Boerner 8 Comments

Heavenly Bamboo

Heavenly Bamboo is on the city of Fayetteville’s invasive species list of undesirable plants. One might say it’s misnamed. As in not so heavenly.

What’s the opposite of heavenly?

Earthly?

I’ll call it Earthly Bamboo.

We have a grove of it.

We didn’t plant it. It was planted years ago, a few small stalks that now provide fantastic privacy along the fence. It also grows into the neighbors’ yards and until recently was tangled in our electrical wires. Rumor has it that when our neighbor to the west bought her house, she found a Volkswagen swallowed alive inside the bamboo growing in her back yard.

Maybe Otherworldly Bamboo would be a better name for it.

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Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

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