Northeast Gardening: Garden Gems 2012 #7, 1 by granitegneiss

granitegneiss wrote:
This is a weird thing to post, but I love the variety of mosses and fungi on this tree stump. They have thrived partly because the adjacent ferns provide shade, and partly because I water the adjacent Japanese maple seedling periodically, and send some water to the stump also.

The other picture is a Japanese anemone, 'Pamina'. I had never had an anemone before I bought this last year, and I really like how the flower heads are so graceful above the foliage.