15 year old clump of bamboo

A friend of mine helped me move a 3X3 foot clump of Phyllostachys nuda from my parents' house to this location sometime back in the mid to late 90's. Since then, it's been given free rein to expand in two directions. I keep it in check with mowing on the other two sides. As you can see by the dwarfed-looking deer in the picture, it's making a stately grove now. Its really cool to walk around inside of it. The deer must think so too because they're always either playing games in and out of it, or sleeping on the leeward side.

Reblooming Iris Volunteer

Here's that volunteer iris seedling still reblooming. The first picture is as it just opened on Thanksgiving morning (yesterday). The second picture is the next morning. The third picture has a pink Chrysanthemum with it to show how close to pink the purple actually is - my camera has a hard time accurately capturing subtleties of purple.

'Home Run' Rose

I've heard that not everyone loves this rose, but here in Maryland, 'Home Run' is a blooming machine - continuous all-season bloom - and I love the fire-engine red color!

"White Clubhouse" Strawberry (still !!!)

First time I've picked and eaten a fresh strawberry on November 20th! And this is after quite a few frosts and being buried under at least six inches of freak October snow. Impressive!

Glossy Kale and more

I took the first picture with my boot to show size. It's one of the regenerated glossy kales getting ready to go for another winter. It's got a fair bit of purple-ness in addition to being a glossy kale.

The second picture and third pictures show some plants I hope to also overwinter and breed into the genepool: a single purple ornamental cabbage, four Tuscan/Dinosaur kales and one of the 'Stonehead' cabbage seedlings I found on sale 6 for a dollar. Hoping these will contribute purple-ness, general hardiness (Tuscan) and thick meaty leaves (cabbage).

Winter grains

Wheats, rye, barley - including some small F2 populations from the F1 wheat hybrids harvested a few months ago.

F2 Rosa moschata X wichuraiana

I doubt it's gonna be a rebloomer, but this rose seedling sure is healthy. These shoots are growing inches from the soil and even so (and in late November) there isn't a spot of anything anywhere on this one. Now if only the deer and rabbits will leave it alone! It sure must be tasty.