day 311 - bamboo (12) garden support

This beautiful old gnarled pine gets protection from mechanical damage with a bamboo sheath.

Matsue-jo moat,

Matsue.

Giant bamboo stakes used to support and train a replanted advanced tree.

These armature/ pergola structures are commonly used around here to lift weeping branches so people can sit under the trees.

Kokoen,

Himeji

Recycled bamboo. A local man salvages garden stakes from an old blind.

Shinzaike,

Himeji