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[SG] Spring is springing...

I just took a walk through the yard and into the woods.  Things are
certainly turning green -- the grass, the trees, the cars... The cars you
ask??  Yep!  With our pollen count skyrocketting, *EVERYTHING* turns green,
whether it's organic or not.  :)

The cheap Home-Depot Super-Value-Pack Hostas (HoneyBells and Undulata
Univittata) are out of the ground and growing.  Maybe they won't be as big
this year as potted ones from the nursery at $5 each, but $20 for 20 of
them beats $100 for 20!  :)

Out front, the camellia japonica and gelsinium sempervirins my girlfriend
gave me for Valentine's day are both showing lots of new growth.  Guess
they've decided they like where they're planted.  More importantly (and I
know this isn't a shade-lover!) the Mr. Lincoln rose she gave me is
vigorously sending out leaves and cane-lets.  (and last week I gave him the
company of a Chrysler Imperial, an Iceberg, and a First Kiss -- Pike's had
'em buy-2-get-1-free and I couldn't resist!)

But to the point of this note.  There's a LOT of stuff in the understory of
my woods that I can't identify.  Sure, I can tell ya that those plants over
there are ferns and those are trees and that one is a vine, but that kind
of stretches my abilities (oh, and the white-flowering ones are azaleas).
Part of it is 'cuz I'm a transplant myself and the woodland stuff I grew up
with isn't here.  On the other hand, I want to clear out some of the
underbrush in the woods, air it out a little and create a path down to the
creek.  But I don't want to do so at the expense of neat/cool/native
plants.  "Weed" types I'll gladly pull and shred.  Can anyone suggest any
reference materials for native/woodland plants in zone 7a (Atlanta, GA).

And this is also a bit off topic, but I do have plenty of mosquitos in the
summer from the creek.  There's enough pools and such for them to have a
field day.  Any reccommendations for fish that might (a) like a snack of
skeeter larvae, (b) be cheap, and (c) be indigenous so as not to create
problems by stocking the creek with them.  It's just a little creek, 2-3 ft
wide and a few inches deep.

Thanks all!  Hope the weather's beautiful where you are!

-- Lew Jansen, Atlanta GA, Zone 7a
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