Link roundup - Privacy screens and devil's walkingstick

Here are a couple more links of interest:

• Privacy screening in your native plant garden - This post suggests some native evergreens that don't grow excessively large.
• Giant flower, at last - I never thought of using devil's walkingstick as an ornamental near the house because it has some wicked thorns, but this person did.  As she points out, it does have an attractive flower.  Devil's walkingstick is blooming in my part of Virginia right now.  You'll see more from me about it in the future, including some pictures of the thorns.