Native to North Carolina? Virginia? Where are you, exactly? Mountain laurel grows back there. Vitex grows here in Texas. Rhododendrons grow in Washington state. You'll have to go cruise yards in your county and buttonhole gardeners. All it takes is driving by slowly, seeing the gardener in their yard, and complimenting them on their work. Guaranteed you'll have a conversation and tips in no time flat.

Well, my beans were coming up and the snails discovered a taste for bean sprouts. They even bored down into the ground beside them and left pencil-sized holes where most of the sprouts had been! I had two short rows and have only about three plants left! I caught several of them red stomach-footed, and those suckers are smashed in the driveway. The rest, well, they're in for a little beer party tonight. And I'll replant that bed in a day or two, and keep more beer handy for when they sprout.

SRS