Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for July 25, 2022

They’ll do well in a NE winter!

If eucalyptus can handle a Rhode Island winter, they could get Koalas instead.

The seagull peeking out…

I grew up in a house where this had happened. Some brilliant person planted a few sticks of bamboo back in the 50’s and by the 70’s we could have fed pandas. The whole backyard was solid bamboo, eight feet tall, completely impenetrable. For some reason my dad decided the situation needed ameliorated. We were afraid we would never see him again. He was victorious only temporarily because that stuff is a type of grass which means it came right back any time you looked away for a moment.

Yeah – as a gardener, Wallace’s Mom would definitely object!

Love the artwork in the 2nd panel.

Wondrous!

Gotta go with Dad on this one, a horrible invasive, almost impossible to get rid of.

Don’t get bamboozled

Bamboo roots will grow thru your foundation they’ve outlawed new plants in some areas

Serious comment of the day: I’m really surprised that bamboo isn’t banned as an invasive plant species! (We now return you to ridiculous and inane comments)

Wow that got shut down pretty quickly.

Yeah, Dad, hear Wallace out! I wanna know what comes after the pandas! More pandas?

Here the boy out. However, I doubt that Dad could afford the $1,000,000.00 per year rental fee China charges zoos for having Pandas…..

Come on Mr. McClean! Panda’s change everything.

RED pandas!

Wallace should have led with the pandas.

A friend was telling me a few years ago that he had seen a show where bamboos were attacking a flock of flamingos. I mean, I knew bamboo was aggressive, but! I asked him, what was attacking? He repeated bamboos. Then when I kept looking at him he said it louder several times. Bamboos! BAMBOOS!! Then he realized he meant baboons.

The gardening section of the local paper (back when it had one) once said that if you plant bamboo it can only be contained by concrete 18×24″ and I don’t remember which way was high and which way was deep, but basically, it was in answer to someone’s asking about their neighbor’s bamboo that had somehow punched through their garage floor and was trying to take over their garage and it wasn’t something the victims had even planted. Yup, it’ll do that. Oh, and the stuff sometimes called Heavenly Bamboo is not a bamboo but a non-native whose berries kill the native berry eating birds. One will kill a cedar waxwing, two a robin—please don’t plant Nandina.

Bamboo has a 1001 uses including as food just like kudzu.

lemme get to the pandas HAHAHAHA

No, no, no, no, no. Bamboo grown over here is a weed that cannot be killed.

This reminds me of the Wallace cartoon where he puts his bed on a bamboo grove and every day he wakes up a little closer to the stars. I love that one so much I had it framed.

Do it

Someone in our neighborhood did this. It’s… interesting. I don’t recommend.