You might look at the site below. Although I now cannot see your picture but saw it yesterday, if memory serves me correctly, it looked similar to a Harrisia. Here is a link that might be useful: Cactaceae Florida

I am also including a link to a ginseng hunting forum where I have a picture of the roots... The post is titled: 'Question: Have I Found Ginseng???' ---third post down. I think you have to sign up to view messages though. Here is a link that might be useful: Ginseng Forum

Watercress! That never occured to me! Guess where I went after work yesterday; yep, that was me in the Marsh produce aisle haphazardly throwing bunches of watercress in a bag! It grows wild in my area, in the creeks - I think it might even be native. And if it was fine sitting on a bed of ice in the store, I would think it would survive my pond water until it can take root. I also went to the aquarium store and bought a couple bunches each of hornwort and anacharis for an experiment in water plant hardening. I'll put it in a 5 gallon bucket of aquarium - temperature water, then place the bucket on my back porch with a piece of bubble wrap over the top. It's supposed to be fairly mild the next few days. On Friday morning, I'll change part of the "house" water for pond water and sit the whole bucket in the pond. Hopefully, I can add the plants to the pond on Saturday (if it's nice) & not kill them. I'll let you know how it all works. My "friend":)seems reluctant to take the netting off of her pond and mess with the plants this early (some friend, huh - just kidding Barb!) so I thought I'd try this instead! Thanks for the suggestions, all. I am going to post some pictures of my pond-in-progress as soon as I read up on how to do so!

I appreciate the input but it defiantly wasn't the Hydrangea this was way too simple of a plant. And I'm pretty sure that it was fully grown Alison because this course has been there for a long time but these could of replaced something from last year we did lose a lot around here. There wasn't any fruit or flowers that I saw, I'm fairly sure about this because they had another bush that I liked and it was also fairly simple with tree looking leaves but it had large berries all over it. They were the size of cherries in fact they looked almost just like cherries. I had way too many flowers this year and the entire back of my wall is all grasses so I have kind of a hard time finding foliage plants that work. Most bushes wouldn't look right with the grasses (plus I hate most bushes including any type of fir or holly), I'm in full sun so that knocks out most of the annuals that I like and I'm working with a limited space. So I donÂt run across too many bushes that I like that will work. If anyone has any other small bushes that would fit my likes I'd love to hear about them. The only real chance that I get to see new & different plants is on the golf course and I really don't play as many courses as I used to. Right now this are is about 500 Sq Feet and the only things in it, besides the grasses, that wouldn't be consider a flower are one chive plant and a bronze fennel. 10% of this area is perennials and the other 90% was annuals so you can imagine how much work it was to keep everything looking nice. I'd love to find a few small unique bushes that I can WS and plant in this area. Strouper