(I took these photos on Dec. 20, 2012)
This Swiss Chard is still green and thriving, despite having been transplanted a month ago.
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| Swiss Chard |
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| Parsley (in a pot on my deck) |
(This celery was grown from last summer from the bottom nub of store-bought celery.)
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| Celery |
This black-eyed susan didn't bloom until December.
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| Black-eyed Susan |
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| Only these blooms remain on all my chrysanthemum plants. |
This strawberry plant was chewed to the nub by Japanese beetles this summer, and I had given it up for dead and was about to throw it out. And then it began to grow back, miraculously pushing out a strawberry in December, which couldn't quite ripen.
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Strawberry plant in December
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This Alysium was grown from a 50 cent seed packet. It still smells like honey. (The store-bought alysium plants in my deck planters had already died).
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| Alysium surrounding a strawberry plant |
