Originally Posted By: sybert777
Uni, how big are you lookin for, i have an ornanental oriental (try saying that 5 times fast!) garden. surprisingly bamboo grows here!!!


Um, actually I'm not.

Just suggesting that since bamboo grows in jointed sections and the stem is round in cross section that finding two pieces that fit together as piston and cylinder would be much easier in a bamboo forest than, say, shortgrass prairie or alpine tundra.