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May 2025 Palm Coast: Stuff in the Ground for Posterity and Beyond

 Lavender I planted some lavender in this pot about a year ago, and this is all I have from it! Loquat (Noquat) Our lawn people somehow mowed our loquat tree, which was like, five feet tall. I really can't figure out how it happened, but I was incredibly sad. There is a loquat up the road along our sidewalk and I found a disrupted seedling and made an attempt. I don't know why it's so difficult to get a loquat.  If you have loquat seedlings, I will take some--pay for them. I want a loquat.  Cucumbers I learned recently that we changed to hardiness zone 9B about two years ago, which is super wild, because a few years before that I learned it wasn't 8B, but it was 9A, so is climate change a hoax or nah?  Anyway, I'm really, really wanting cucumbers to pickle, and I don't have the greenest of thumbs. These cukes are struggling in the good ol' 9B Florida heat.  I had a few mushrooms in there and thought it was some sort of tragic sign of the soil, but apparentl...