Just like the incredible
bamboo plant, Bamboo Women thrive. Compare the
amazing qualities of bamboo plants to the
qualities of women you admire.
Rate of Growth
One of bamboo's
primary advantages is its incredible rate of
growth. Bamboo grows faster than any other
plant, and once it's established, a bamboo
plant will send up shoots that can reach
their full height in just one growing
season.
Hardy and
Aggressive
Bamboo is also amazingly
hardy and aggressive in its growth habits. In
fact, once a bamboo plant has gotten a toehold in
an area, it's difficult to eradicate it. To show
how hardy bamboo actually is, it was bamboo plants
that first began to sprout in the devastation area
that surrounded the atomic bombing site in
Hiroshima in 1945.
Thrives without
Care
A
bamboo plant requires very little care and will
continue to thrive on just one or two inches of
water a year.
Unique and Useful
Bamboo's strength is also legendary. As far back
as the 1200s, Italian explorer Marco Polo wrote
about seeing Chinese fishermen use ropes woven
from bamboo to tow their boats. For centuries,
people around the world have used bamboo to create
a staggering variety of products, including
desalination filters, musical instruments, paper,
fishing poles, scaffolding, wind chimes, and
thousands of other unique and useful items.
Spiritual
In the Far East, bamboo was thought to
possess spiritual qualities, as well. It was
seen to represent long life in China, and
the Japanese surrounded their Shinto shrines
with bamboo forests to protect their holy
places from evil spirits.
Spreads Good
Fortune
The Chinese thought that receiving a living
bamboo plant as a gift would bring good
fortune, and bamboo has definitely lived up
to its reputation.
Fertile
It will also quickly
sprout if you break off a stem and put it in
water. All you have to do is change its water
every three days until the roots become well
enough established to plant in some soil. Then you
can share your good fortune with someone else.
Very few plants are
as forgiving and prolific as bamboo. Are
you a Bamboo Woman?
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