post-holiday campus trip II

i made a stop at the pgp while i was out there and autumn is advanced there as well the gamagrass looks dormant from a distance and pretty much is...but there's still some green in there along with a few seed heads that haven't shattered yet...they were the really late bloomers and i doubt that the seed is very viable...in four months the gamagrass will start "greening" for a new season as chlorophyll returns to some of the old growth from last season...it doesn't entirely regenerate new foliage so i'd call it dormant, not dead...a hardy native perennial it will be back in 2014...the seed heads that i left on the northern tepehuan teosinte have begun to open and shatter like the ones in my back yard and i have found seeds on the ground...they will overwinter there and i will be interested to see if this plant ( not a "stand" really since it is one plant ) becomes self-generating...i will be watching that particular area of the garden as closely as i will be looking in on the stand in my yard...the mulches in the pgp are holding up as well...i really didn't expect any issues...the process that i used has worked for several years without a hitch so i think both gardens are good to go through winter...another look at seed heads and dormancy sometime next week.