Thank you! I never noticed the flowers before this year but maybe I noticed the plant with its thin leaves.

I would be very interested as well - my daughter has a rose that we transplanted from an abandoned neighborhood house - I suspect it had been there for decades as the little lady who lived there had been - we have always called it Sister Annie's rose because we don't know who she is - she blooms only once, profusely, highly sweetly perfumed. She will grow to at least six or more feet if we can keep daughter's husband the control freak away from her as he tends to chop all greenery to the ground from time to time. This rose does best in sun but she also has one in part shade that manages well - a spot or two on the leaves at times but generally clean as a pin. She does sucker although it appears not madly although her proximity to the lawn may interfere with that process. This rose has never been fed or sprayed and yet is as healthy a specimen as I have ever seen. I don't know how to post pictures here - but the only one I have is of the bloom only - no buds - and some foliage - which is strikingly like the rose that is the subject of this thread - color appears identical - perhaps a few less petals but I suspect not as the rose in my picture is totally open and you can see a glimpse of the center. I grow a number of Bourbons and she looks nothing like them - she is most like in foliage on my one Portland and even more like my lone Gallica - I had suspected that she was in fact a Gallica, but am certainly no expert. I have transplanted a sucker into my garden that I brought back from Nashville two weeks ago and next year hopefully I will be more intimately acquainted with her - but she is a lovely, carefree rose that recalls the roses of my childhood to my eye and to my nose. I

Definitely not any of the Buddha belly bamboo that I grow. B. tuldoides does not have bellies and is known as Punting Pole bamboo here. I strongly agree with Kudzu on the ID of Ph. aurea. There are countless groves of it down here in the wild and even mine has identical compacted nodes. A very common bamboo here, and it will not have the compressed nodes on all culms and the degree of compression varies also. Buddha Belly aka B. vulgaris 'Wamin' always bellies except on thin whipshoots or culms less than 1/2 inch thick. Another Buddha Belly aka B. ventricosa produces bellies when grown under stress or kept small, but never in an open grown specimen. I do know that identical clones of bamboo can grow completely differently in different parts of the country. Soil, sun, nutrients, warmth, soil type, amount of fertilizer, etc all play a large part in grove growth. You most likely have P. aurea. Kt

Maples are some of the easiest to start. As soon as they are ripe (different ripening times for different types of maples), you can plant them directly in the ground. Once dry and kept over winter, they'll then need cold stratification early spring. I've kept ripe maple seeds, collected late season, in a baggie in the unheated garage over winter until March, then gave them the cold/moist stratification in the refrigerator for 60-90 days and had great success in germination. Silver and Red Maple seed can be sowed in the ground as soon as they ripen in the spring and you'll most likely have seedlings by summer. Sugar maples ripen in the later summer and in z3, I'll moist/stratify in early spring and plant in pots until larger/stronger seedlings can be planted out or used as gifts. I know nothing about Norway Maple other than identifying them so I don't accidentally plant one. lol.