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Rainy Season Keeps Eel Hunters BusyJakarta GlobeThe bamboo traps allow eels to swim in, but they cannot get out. Before morning, the trappers collect and empty the traps. Their wives then clean the eels and sell them in the market. (JG Photo/Maratus Sholihah) Unpredictable weather patterns across ... |
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Leaming's Run Gardens is open for the season!NJ.com (blog)The bamboo forest was unexpected since I was expecting to see only flowers. As I walked the garden tour path I was suddenly surrounded by bamboo. This place had a serene feel except for the whispering clackety-clack of the bamboo. ... |
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Gardener's Journal: Join a plant societyMilford Daily NewsThere are plant societies and associations for virtually every type of plant imaginable -- from African violet, azalea, bamboo, cactus and succulent, clematis, conifer, crabapple, cycad, fern, fuchsia, gloxinia and gesneriads, hemerocallis, holly, ...and more » |
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Asheville area home and garden calendarAsheville Citizen-TimesBAMBOO WALKING TOURS: Learn about bamboo plants, their characteristics, species and environment. 1:30-3 pm Sunday, Haiku Bamboo Nursery, 468 Rhodes Mountain Road, Hendersonville. $20 cash. 685-3053. BLACK MOUNTAIN GARDEN SHOW/SALE: Silent auction, ...and more » |
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Taiwan, Brazil craftsmen create contoured bamboo chairTaiwan Today“The chair was made using young bamboo with each plant being about 2.4 meters long,” bamboo master Ye Ji-xiang said. “Out of 10000 plants selected, only 1000 ended up being used.” According to Ye, each chair required 80 contoured tubes connected in ...and more » |
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