PlantFiles Pictures: Turk's-Turban, Sky Rocket, Bowing Lady (Clerodendrum indicum), 0 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Shoot Rj, you have me panting over the thought of painted bamboo and I can't find it. Is it colorful? Is it splotched with red and pink? LOL!! Years ago I saw a magazine picture of bamboo stalks wrappedd in 24 kt gold sheets. Oh my, what a sight. Also another photo in the article had the stalks all painted in different primary colors. Sure captured my interest.

Is the painted one the yellow with green stripes? I see giant bamboo there with a new culm coming up. New culms so excite me. I want to move in with Mike. I surely do. Think he needs a very cheerful, old, fat lady whom does not cook or clean but does garden and buy plants well? Where is his garden? I may apply for the garden muse position.

Funny you mention bromeliads. I had a serious affair with them over 30 years ago when the brightly colored ones were not around. This last year or so I was at the Strybing Arboretum in the back greenhouses and saw some very PINK/red ones and caught the virus back that fast. I now have tons again. LOL. I surely would have gone nuts over that sale but oh so sad the man who loved them dearly is now no longer able to enjoy them all. I find that so sad. But the thought of that very thing urges me to buy whatever my little heart desires now for tomorrow may not come. I have had this philosophy always but since my Mom died and I realized I am actually going to die, I am out of control. My poor husband deserves a medal. Do you have photos of you new bromeliads posted on your oh so very organized garden journal so I can lust after them?

Thankfully I am in Northern Ca not south where the fires were. God bless them all them! Thanks for thinking of me.

Here is a bamboo I bought the other day.