I am interested, though my garden is young have a few things to share- arums. epimedium, toad lily.. can you tell I have a shady yard..and I would only have a few snippets of mentioned plants. But I would love to build a network. And I have a ton of hellebore seedlings, but don't know if anyone wants to nurse these for four years! spring!

"I've had no experience with queen snakes." I understand, and I think that this is also true of the others who are calling it a Queen Snake. For Mike and I, who have each seen many, many Queen Snakes and many, many Gartersnakes, it is painfully obvious that this is a Gartersnake. "that lighting and color in photography can be misleading" I see your point very well. But...the camera is not playing tricks here. It shows a dorsal stripe and red banding because they do indeed exist. "...and never seen such a patternless species whether in shed or not" But which is more likely, a Gartersnake with some pattern lacking? or a Queen Snake with a Garter-esque head, dorsal stripe, red-banding, and found far from water? "That being said, I can't be sure of the species." That's really great to hear someone say. I'm glad that someone can admit that they're not "100% sure" it's a Queen Snake, because it is not. This is a Gartersnake. -Todd ...oh, and to keep it interesting, here's a real Queen Snake found a few days ago in western Indiana.

Thanks, I never even heard of a canebrake rattlesnake. I did see pic.s of a timber and thought it would be him but didn't think they lived here in Ga. Looked up canebrake and looks just like him. Now being about 18 inches or so how old would you say he is? Don't know how fast they grow and the info said babies were born 10 to 16 inchs at birth in August it would seem that it would have to be a young snake from last year? I would have thought they would have grown faster. It was a thick snake. What would be the likelyhood that there a a lot more around? I have lived here 2 years now and never seen one before. Thanks for your help.

THANKS, it is so nice to have people at this site who can id snakes. I didn't think it was a cotton mouth but then they can be such different colors at different ages and stages of their life. I do see them swimming out in the big pond. I have read they are the olny ones who swim on top of the water, and that water snakes do not. The only thing I know for sure about them is the black line that appears to go through their eye. Is there a site out there that clearly shows all the different 'appearances' of these snakes? I really need to learn since I have created a wildlife friendly yard. Thanks again