Oh the bamboo has got plenty of water. It's the cold it couldn't handle, because we had about two weeks of more or less constant rainy, nasty, dreary days where the temperature rarely went above 50 during the day, and down into the 30's at night. The palm trees fared well, but the banana trees and the babmboo had all their leaves die. I'm worried about the bamboo tree, actually, because it looks great during the summer, and this is the first year I can remember out of the 13 yearsa I've been living here that it's stayed so cold for so long. Last week was almost hot with several days in the 80's and this week in the upper 70's, but the bamboo still isn't showing any signs of life and even the green parts of the stems are brown now. :( Well, at least I'll have some new bamboo fishiong poles if I want. Maybe I can sell them, LOL