I've been looking at the leaves on the seedling oaks that are coming up around here, quirky, and I'm wondering if many of these are really laurel oaks - the leaves look just like the ones in the above pictures for the entire little tree. I can't speak for willow oaks, but I don't believe water oaks are short lived and weak wooded. I have a LOT of them, and they withstood Hurricane Katrina very well - I only lost two big ones, they were uprooted, not broken off like loblolly pines. I've got some mighty big ones that must be old, and, although they lost some limbs, what big, heavy trees didn't? Sounds like more misinformation out there! Sherry

The Gourd Guy has Carolina Nail Keg Gourds listed in his trade list. Find one of his posting and check out the pictures on his trade list. I think at the front of the second picture, there are some nail keg gourds. They are tall and cylindrical shaped.

I'd recommend Rick Darke's book, Encyclopedia of Grasses. Full of great pictures from grass gardens, nurseries, botanical gardens, you name it. Information is outstanding as well. For pictures on the web, try some of the mail order grass suppliers... Santa Rosa Gardens High Country Gardens Joy Creek Bluestem Nursery They all have internet sites with lots of pictures of ornamental grasses.

Search esalerugs.com. This one, while not identical, is very similar. Runner