| The turquoise blue Martha Brae river ran in a big curve through the estate, overhung with giant bamboos and full of crayfish. |
| His slides showed examples of phormium, umbellifors, ferns and grasses, such as yuccas, angelica, tree ferns, bamboos and pampas grass. |
| In the past, the women performed the rhythms by sitting on tiny stools, singing and beating little rattles or bamboos cut lengthwise. |
| Most bamboos fall between the two physiological states of constant flowering and constant sterility. |
| Grasses, sedges and bamboos are grown mostly for their foliage and anything that enhances that effect is worth having. |
| Generally, the tropical bamboos tend to be clumpers and the temperate bamboos tend to be runners. |
