What happened to the big bamboo trees?

[urbandreamer]

I was here today (Monday) and took a few photos:

Either way, it looks okay--with the trees gone, you can appreciate the architecture better.

 

[adma]

Hard to tell.

I'm wondering if they're searching for a durable substitute for bamboo. (And there's be poetic justice to such a search, considering the U of T greenhouse that once stood next door.)

 

[golodhendil]

it looks so... desolate now

 

[Urban Shocker]

One less campus trysting place - for a while, anyway: bamboo is hardy and grows rapidly, and the rhizomes store enough energy to send up new shoots.

 

[urbandreamer]

btw, I noticed another flaw in this building's design: the massively long wheel chair ramp is closed, perhaps because the designers forgot that ice+snow on sloping wood = disaster? I think the ramp should either be covered or rebuilt with good old concrete.

 

[Automation Gallery]

it looks so... desolate now

Great space for a patch of banana trees.

 

[Seymour]

I saw the bamboos recently, or rather, the stumps that are left. How sad. i wonder what's going on there? Maybe some new ones will be planted??

 

[Automation Gallery]

I saw the bamboos recently, or rather, the stumps that are left. How sad. i wonder what's going on there? Maybe some new ones will be planted??

If thats the case bamboo is part of the grass family and most likley these stumps will take off like wildfire.

 

[wild goose chase]

I still remember the bamboo, back when I attended UofT several years ago. Didn't realize they 're gone, but I did notice they didn't look healthy the last time I saw them. It almost looked like they were drying out. I wonder why it didn't do well. Light? Humidity?

Anyone seen what replaced them?