There are various walking routes round the house: minimum (i.e. the closest easily walked circuit) and maximum (the widest circuit possible); shortest (which is not the same as minimum as this cuts corners). All these and other variants can be walked clockwise and anticlockwise.The route is clear at present, though all kinds of vegetation cutting will soon be necessary. The only pruning I have had to do so far is of an errant bramble cane and a few leaning stems of a variegated bamboo Pleioblastus viridistriatus (see right). The leaves of these have been described as "bright yellow with random avocado green stripes".
It is known as 'kamuro-zasa' in its native Japan but I have not been entirely able to unscramble the meaning of this apart from 'kamuro' having something to do with baldness, though no reason for this was put forward. Maybe it was regarded as a cure for baldness. 'Zasa' I think is just a word for bamboo.
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