We had a bit of a windstorm on Friday and Saturday. Some folks lost power and there were a couple of stories in the news of trees falling on cars and houses. We were spared any such damage. However, a bamboo that acts as a divider between two areas in my side garden blew over.
It took with it a column that stood nearby. Fortunately, there was no damage to the column. It came in several parts that stack on top of each other and simply unstacked.
The good news is that the bamboo was growing in an ugly white plastic pot with the bottom cut out if it that I'd been using as a root barrier. Silly really as this is a clumping bamboo. The pot was mostly buried but about a foot of glaring plastic stuck up above the soil line. I'd hoped to get the pot out of the picture but couldn't get it to move this summer so the wind actually did me a favor.
The dragon head that lived on top of the column did suffer some damage but can be repurposed somewhere else. So, while the wind helped me, beneath the pot is hard soil full of timber bamboo roots. I got rid of that bamboo and thought that the roots would rot away sooner than they have so digging a deeper hole to plop this plant into will take some effort but I'll be very happy to be rid of the ugly looking white plastic business.
