the kids are alright...the established plants continue to produce a bounty of berries...and the imported plants that i have been tracking continue to grow leaves from the crowns and are obviously adapting to new surroundings ( third through fifth photos )..but Jean!! i had though the four plants i had planted on the north end of the yard had met their demise...when i looked the bed over last week i saw nothing in the way of old leaves or new growth...so when i wandered over that way to look at mashua nd some teosinte i was pretty much stunned to see that there was new growth from the crown of one of the plants ( sixth )...but when you pull back to look at the larger picture ( seventh) you will see far more than a few leaves from the crown...there are stolons there! plural! one tot he left ( eighth ) that ends in a daughter plant ( ninth ) and one tot he left ( tenth ) that ends in another ( eleventh )..so from there plants beginning to grow again we have suddenly leapt to six! when the supplier called them "tough little plants" they were seemingly not exaggerating...so i will be paying more attention tot hat bed from now on and rooting any new stolons in pots so i can move the berry plants around...we may become the berry barons on the south end of the inland sea...more as this moves along.
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