Rachel's Journal

It's amazing the way our memories fail us. Great surprise to know that it now has a name. 'Aurea' is a lovely Phyllostachys. Well worth keeping.

Googled it- lovely  bamboo. And the bark is very ornamental.

Want to get a smallish for a container some time, love the way they move in the wind.

That looks very nice. Glad someone else has trouble remembering names etc.!! If i didnt keep the labels and write down the names I'd be useless!

I started a plant database last autumn, Dorothy, and put a lot of my plant names in it. Recently we had a computer crash and the back-up was from before last autumn. All gone! So I'm back to square one trying to remember plant names and looking through my bag of labels.

Yes, Jacinta, I'm always reminded of the saying "just becasue you're certain, doesn't mean you're right" : )

What a bummer that you lost your database. So frustrating.

Rachel, very very far from a computerexpert here, but have heard that things are never fully lost, they are there somewhere. Maybe if you know someone into computers, might be worth a try.

Thanks, Jacinta & Fran. You are right of course, Fran, but we are lucky we have the back-up, even if a bit old. I have years of genealogical research on the computer and at least that is safe. There is only the odd thing since then that I am sorry to have lost and I can live with their loss.

It was my teenage son. He uploaded some game he bought on the web and it caused the computer to shut down and delete all its files - 1 by 1. Nice : )

It is lovely "stripped", making it a better focal point. 

About your computer, if you do know someone who could take out your hard disk drive and connect it to another pc, you should be able to get most of the information back.  

Now i know why i more trust to my 'Gardenig journal' book,nobody won't try uplod some games there.But all time have to watch,because here is little fingers,who want check all what is mammys)

Ah Rachel thats an old show trick, I remember a Chelsea exhibitor saying they used black boot polish to shine the stems of the black bamboos in the garden (Phyllostachys Nigra) and that aurea is just lulling you into a false sense of security I bought a tiny one in Naas, it did little for 3 years, but after that turned into a bit of a monster, start lookng out for those cement roof tiles and start burying then in a circle around you bamboo as a barrier while your still in control :-)