I have an aralia spinosa about 12 inches in height if you are interested. I am interested in your agastache honey bee white or salvias that I don't have.

Hi chammond/Chris, If you aren't successful in finding seeds, and are interested, I could probably send some rooted suckers once things awaken here in the spring. Feel free to drop me an email in late march or early April. We had an interesting discussion about it a while back at The Native Plant Forum. Aralia Spinosa-a little heard of or talked about native Sue...chemocurl

Saschja, I just now saw this comment from you in July......never got a notice in e-mail. So sorry to have not responded. You can e-mail me directly at free2bebrian and the @ and then gmail.com. My name is Jan. We still have walking sticks, but have managed to keep them limited. Takes a lot of plucking. The best remedy I found is watering the plants and watching for them moving out of the wet zone. They don't like water. Then I grab them and either kill them, which I hate doing, or put them in the yard waste bin. The problem with not killing them is the risk that they just get put somewhere else via the yard waste recycling. Mostly I suck up my buddhist impulses and kill them. But its hard. Write to me and we can talk directly. The brown and green are the same, just adjusted to the different color plant part they are on usually. So sorry you have a major infestation. Not a good sign for PG. Jan

"I would let it grow. Don't be fooled by those straight suckers. Some go up several feet before they start curling. It's all about whether they start below or above the graft. More often than not it's hard to tell where the graft is on contorted hazelnuts because it's usually down very low," I do plan to let it grow as most everything in my gardens are effectively all experiments. (: However, I can see where the root stock has been grafted onto the main stem. A few small curly branches are coming from above the graph and all of the straight ones are from below. The straight ones are growing faster. I suspect that the branches from below the graft will take most of the nutrients robbing the HLWS branches from any productive growth. I am hoping that the large root stock will produce a lot of growth for a nut bearing shrub. Since it is much closer to the house, maybe the squirrels will not take all of them before I get any.