Fifty years ago, the area was all savanna, waving fields of reeds and elephant grass running for a thousand miles on both sides of the river.
She steeped reeds for basket weaving.
In the seventeenth century, the colonist here thatched their roofs with reeds and straw, just as they did in England.
All I know is that each year when the rush flowers blow in the breeze and the leaves turn yellow, the whole crop is cut and stacked in the squares round Baiyangdian Lake like a Great Wall of reeds.
In Tal as many as 12 people are crammed into flimsy shelters patched together from reeds and plastic sheets.
She can tell you how to weave reeds into a beautiful basket.
We potted at the wild duck in the reeds.
In my case, I want this layer for the water and reeds only.
The sun was sinking in the west, the reeds, cattails and willow branches were etched a ruddy-gold before Xiangzi stood up and followed the city wall to the west.
Towards the Iranian border and south to the Gulf, rigid and yellowing reeds jut from a hard-baked landscape of cracked mud.
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