You do know that you will have to plant them away from any other plants as once they get started they choke anything in their way. I know they are beautiful both as a plant and as a pretty bloom. I have seen them grow up a chain-link fence and never have any care given them growing in the grass up the fence. They one thing they do need is sun. I need to harvest my seeds soon to move them away from the flower bed as well as some cardinal vine seeds who also need sun. I tried to grow my cardinal vine plants in a shaded area. They grew up to the roof before they would keep their leaves and put on blooms. I may not have very many seeds will have to check to see soon. Don't need any hyacinth bean vines but if I do find enough then I am more than willing to send you some if you like. Paul

The names Cypress Vine and Cardinal Climbers are commonly used interchangeably for Ipomoea quamoclit and I. multifida/sloteri. Most commercially available seed packets you buy at a place like Canadian Tire will be I. Sloteri. If you specifically want one or the other, you're best off identifing them by the botannical name. The two are very similar, and grow in the same manner, but in my yard, I have found that I. quamoclit does not do nearly as well as I. sloteri. In my experience, neither of the two will 'trail' in a hanging basket, they will both climb. If you want a somewhat related plant that hangs down, then you might want to look for something like an ornamental sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). BP

dunno if this will clarify or not from my non-scientific viewpoint, but here goes. i had i. pennata for several yrs. then, after i got too vigorous in weeding that out, i found a source of seeds for i. quamoclit, which i'd seen and wanted really bad. anyhow, it seems more seedy/weedy than pennata, and comes up all over(no hope of weeding it all out)- but always with the extremely fine ferny foliage. i have some regular ipomeas(blue heaven, saucers, granpa otts, etc.- those are multifidas) that bloom at the same time and all over each yr, but have never seen them cross with or noticed any recognisable crosses of them and quamoclit(or pennata when i grew it). the common multifida ones cross every which way but loose with each other, but at least for me they haven't boogied with quamoclit. pup- i understood your question, but don't know the answer. it makes sense that it would be part of the genetic grab bag, but i haven't seen evidence of it. maybe your yard/experience is just that. i didn't mean that species don't or can't cross earlier, just that if the seeds are pure species, they should come true. we count on seedsman to label things correctly and breed them true. there's no way to really tell, though, just by the seeds(or plants), but i hadn't seen those 2 buggers cross or spontaneously mutate. however, because the common names are so similar, they certainly could get mixed up in a seed packet. and, who's to say some birds or storms didn't help along with some seeds from neighbor's yards? anyhow, i probably was making too many assumptions & should have kept my lip buttoned. i hope i didn't hurt any feelings. and, that's a good ? about what you call a species that can't cross. anyone?

I'll have Cypress vine seeds later, if you remind me. They're just starting to bloom well and haven't yet set dry seeds. I've only seen red Cypress vine. Last year after frost I took some vines with seeds attached and just laid them along the side of the stick house. They're growing right on up. Nell