We don't call it 'Hongcouver' for nothing you know. That is some massive bamboo, my goodness! A person could have alot of fun thinking of different things to make out of that.

Den Vic, It's nice looking garden and sure it's remarkable given that it's in BC - and not in California. I have been in BC and actually lived in the interiors for at least a year. I love the climate of the interiors and of the island but I just couldn't stand the rainy weather in the coastal areas. Back then (~30 years ago) tropicana types couldn't survive the area. I can only think of climate changes that allow tropical plants to survive there. If so, that is worrisome. In some areas of Toronto, even the Japanese banana manage to survive. It's either the heat of the city or again climate change. or the El Nina effect. One can only look at the devastation in China and Pakistan to see how bad the climate has become. However, of course it can also be that plants were developed to tolerate colder zones. I know the Japanese bananas trees is one such case. In my old tropical country, we do have palms growing in the highest mountains which are colder areas and so I can see how some plants from a more cooler climate can be developed further for cold tolerance.

Hi again, If you are interested in some of my seeds, please give me your trade list and your email address so that I can contact you. I am not interested in SASE. I donate most of my extra seeds to my "Seeds for Classrooms" program that I arranged with the local school board and schools (6,000 pkg a couple months ago). Other extra "useful" vegetable and herb seeds get donated to disaster relief organizations. Hope to hear from you about your seeds for zone 3 hardy and interesting perennials and shrubs. Happy Gardening

and on the other hand, I think its outrageously humourous, worth many a chuckle with re-reads, and appreciate the ghastly overlaid depiction, rendered in words and timbre that I even understand as normal. -perhaps its all in the Sir Donald Tsang and 'Sir Bow-Tie' that implies the manner of understanding the term 'nip' contextually. -perhaps some are forgetting Nihongo/Nippongo from earlier dictionary editions, not to mention the 'Japanese' word contextually referencing Herbs lantern as 'implying (perhaps) -coarsely Japonaise', and generally missing the boat as not even being related to Japanese beyond the misnomer of Nip. Japanese was used twice indicating he knew its use well, yet chose to insult Herb with a nip where it counted. This isn't even mentioning the dabbling that Japanese architects did with the post- Bauhaus concept WITH the ghastly geometric gravel gardens surrounding the entire concrete edifice... ..though regretably, I must disagree with the 'deeply conservative love of Neo-classicism' viewpoint of the Nazi regime in regards to the closing of the Bauhaus 'school'. The website does not mention the reasons for closing the Bauhaus. At some other time or place I would be curious to know where this perception came from, Nazi's hating and being antagonistic towards Bauhaus -design-... or (lacking?) modernism... considering the modernism that has been introduced into N. American infrastructure that was invented and introduced by the Nazi regime. Are we sure that the Nazi's did not hate the organizational ability of the 'grass-roots movement' of the 10's-30's hippie era of communal art colonies, of which Bauhaus was an irreverent misbegotten sport that refused to wear the armband of compliance in order to practise? (besides the armband was clothing that interfered with nudism as a necessary precept for natural craft design... now where did that term 'blockhead' come from??? and why was Tsang referred to as Sir Bow-Tie? --- it matters not) I still think the entire is funny and only poking at Herb's lantern, and perhaps his taste.. :), or lack of.