Dale Almond, 59, of Maumelle, better known as “Mr. Bamboo,” is out to convince people that his namesake plant should be everybody’s favorite, writes Ron Wolfe in Saturday’s HomeStyle section.
“I’ve been using this handle,” Mr. Bamboo, for 10 years, he says, and it seems to him that more people are coming around to his side of the bamboo fence. The recent Arkansas Flower and Garden Show kept him busy selling the plant that he learned to love as a sprout himself, playing jungle explorer in the canebrakes.
See Saturday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more about a plant that’s easier to spread than to spread enthusiasm for.
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