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Anyone know what kind of plant this is? It's so huge. This is what it looks like in September. In the winter it dies back to hollow bamboo like canes that aren't very strong. They all get knocked down usually by a late winter wind, I've been collecting the canes but I'm not sure if they are strong enough to really build anything useful with them. In the spring it sends up new shoots/canes.

If it's not edible, it…

Well first we dug these cinder blocks out of the future blueberry beds. We dug them out beyond the bed area as well. There were 32 in all and we are pretty sure they used to be part of the ancient septic systems leach field because they led us to the tank.

We removed a rhododendron from in front of the south facing foundation wall beneath our front porch, dug out the roots and set it all out to dry for fire wood. We…

Anyone know what this large shrub is called? This is the flowers in the late spring and early summer. It has long thorn on the branches and made hard round green fruits in the fall. The shrub is about 7 ft high and 12 or more feet in diameter. The strange thing is the fruit has only appeared on the north side of the bush which also gets street lighting all night if that has any effect.

So about me: I have had a pretty…