Heavy Snow

Some wet, heavy snow has come in time to make a White Christmas.

Bamboo-Snow

Bamboo is weighed down with the snow.

Blue-Spruce-Snow

Evergreen Windbreak with a nice Christmas look.

Snow-Fence

Unique Snowball formed on steel fence post.

December Green Bamboo

Bamboo is still green into December.

Bamboo-Backyard Black-Walnut-Bamboo


Animals like hiding in the bamboo.  The best kind to grow in my climate is hardy species from the Phyllostachys genus.

Fall Colors 2012

Nice fall yellow color on a White Mulberry, while others are still green.
Yellow-Fall-Color-Mulberry

Bald Cypress rarely fails me and has good fall colors most years.

bald-cypress-fall-2012

Bitternut Hickories(Carya cordiformis) turning usual yellows in fall.

Yellow-Bitternut-Hickories

Pin Oak(Quercus palustris) hangs onto its leaves into the winter.

Pin-Oak

Red Oak’s fall color and the still green bamboo(Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘spectabilis’) contrast nicely.

Bamboo-Red-Oak