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Article: Common plants bring the world to your backyard.(Dig/Colorado Gardening)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2006
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Byline: Rob Proctor
The new interest in hardy bamboo is one chapter in the fascinating tale of Asian plants in Western gardens. During the Victorian era, American and European plant hunters began to search the planet for exotic plants. Sponsored by wealthy patrons and scientific organizations, these early Indiana Joneses explored remote areas where westerners had never traveled.
Many new species came from Asia, a continent with an incredible variety of plant life. The plant hunters collected seeds and live specimens, bundled them carefully and transported them by packhorse and porters to ships, where many were lost to salt water or rats on the voyages ...