Sayward

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When I thought I might live down south originally I always envisioned a fairy ring of redwoods (sequoiadendron in my mind's eye, though sequoia may be more suitable to Sayward and metasequoia might be more suitable to this particular landscape arrangement) with phyllostacys edula, the giant moso bamboo, in a ring within that. In the very center there is perhaps an opening, a pond or a meadow wet enough to keep back the bamboo rhizomes, or maybe just the location from which shoots are harvested in spring.

I'd shelved that when I came up here. Now I'm wondering-- what would a realistic spacing on that be? It would be huge, of course. Vancouver is crawling with sequoiadendron planted in weird places and thriving anyhow. Snow would take down the bamboo but it wouldn't mind.

Hm.