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These are plants we've seen or own, but have forgotten or never known what their names are. If you recognize any of them we'd appreciate a note at our email drop.

Here are five images of a plant in our front flower bed. We think it came from Pete's Herbs this year (2004). It's a little over a foot tall and a foot and a half wide. It's doing well, but what is it?

These next are a mildly continuueing mystery. We had "known" for years that there was saw palmetto growing in the river swamp. Then we read in an article by Andy Cabe at the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden that the saw palmetto's range did not extend this far north ans inland. A few emails ensued, and some poking around the net looking for the right species and variety.

We're almost there, but for now we'll put some mid-October pictures here.

A large mature:

The exposed part of the trunk, none found over six inches high:

A fresh sprout from an old trunk:

And some almost done for the year fruit: