alwazeroom4more, The Pawpaw,Asimina triloba doesn't have a separate male and female plant.It's the way the flowers are timed to be fertile that causes them to need another variety to produce fruit.The Sunflower variety is about the only one I've heard to be self fertile. There are other species related to Asimina triloba (Asimina incarna, A. longifolia, A. obovata, A. parviflora, A. pygmaea, A. reticulata, A. tetramera, A. X nashii)that grow more in the Southeastern US.Asimina Triloba requires about 400 chill hours. I have some seedlings,three varieties of A.triloba,but not sure if they are compatible in your zone. Oregon Grape also grows around here in abundance. Brady

I can find quite a bit of the wild stuff, but certainly couldn't afford to send that much. Chicory, plantain, fireweed, Purslane, wood sorrel, Solomon's seal (false?), some type of gooseberry (wild ones, when I go to Idaho) Jerusalem artichoke, red alder, skunk cabbage--maybe, kinnikinnick, MAYBE serviceberry, wild ginger (certainly not 40 of them, though), possibly Oregon grape, bedstraw, burdock, not sure on monkeyflower, cascara, snowberry, all heal, yarrow, yellow violets, Virginia creeper, maybe nuphar polysepalus, wild strawberries (fragaria virginiana and chiloensis).

matriarchy...you'd be surprised what you can pack into a small space! My yard is pretty small. I have a 30 year old half twin on a corner lot. It's less than 1/3 acre on the deed. Realistically it MIGHT be 1/4 acre between front/side and rear. For perspective, the side yard is 24 x 36 and the front is 28x48 and is bissected by a walk to the house which is about 4.5 ft wide. My back yard is about 44' long and an irregular 48 wide. (You have to net a large shed and a driveway out of that width across most of the length so for all intents and purposes it's 28 wide. The meadow just fits into an area about 15x30 but bisected with a 3 foot path going through and around it to enjoy the insect life and the flowers as you meander through it. Not sure you can meander through such a small space...! I had specific goals for the yard and knew it was beyond me to design it on my own. So I hired a landscape design professional with a degree in horticulture and landscape design and who specializes in native/natural landscaping. We are beyond pleased with the results! I was intent on providing habitat and welcoming birds. I wanted to attract and sustain butterflies and hummingbirds. I like to enjoy a garden but I did not want to spend tons of time working in it. Truth be told..I spend more time working in it than I would like to but I am having a terrible perennial weed problem this summer from the early hot summer! I did not want much grass. So the front yard is primarily flower beds...a long one flanks the front of the house (there's goldenrod and aster in this one among other things) and the fence line that divides the front and side yards. There is a huge island in the center of the front yard...huge being relative to the side of the yard. There's a tree in each end....and it is jam pack full of flowering native perennials throughout. (A neighbor said I had a jungle and my little GS said yes, a jungle for insects. The birds love it!) Then, the strip between my walk and the neighbors is another perennial bed. There is a swath of grass surrounding the island...but it's only about two mower widths wide. The side yard has beds...a raised and a ground level...on all 4 sides of it (along the house and between side and back, front and side and along fence on side). There IS grass there...not a lot...but grass for the dogs to potty. The back yard is no grass. There's a row of privacy arbs/red cedars/hollies along the back....and a series of gravel paths. Flower beds under trees...a lot of trees (I created a shady microenvironment in a SW aspect in the upper part of the small back yard)...a small pond...a boulder/rock outcropping, the little (teeny!) meadow below it, ferns up under the trees. There's about 12-1500 plants + trees. About 65 varieties in all. Anyway. The only grass in my back yard is native tall grasses...not turf grass. I wanted lots of flowers, seeds and fruits and that's what I got. Now it's quite charming and very tended...but not nearly as tame as most suburban plots. My neighbors are accustomed to very manicured things. But they all love and comment on the variety of my flowers, the birds and wildlife the garden attracts...and the impact they make in such mass. But it took a lot of work (we installed with some help) a lot of research finding the plants some of which are rather obscure and not a small amount of $$$. Just not all at once. It's always evolving. But, once you get past the keeping and tending grass idea you'd be surprised how much impact you can pack in a modest space. I'll take some pictures when I replace my digicam. DH took mine to a fishing trip and fell in the river. This is the third camera of mine he broke so from now on he gets disposables and I will replace mine...I have my eye on the Canon s5 is. Robin

I guess I posted my list on the food list site. So here it is again. I will not bring them all so if your interested in something let me know what you have to swap. Nandina domestica Peperomia obtusifolia `Variegata' Peperomia Dioscorea bulbifera Heart leaf air potato Alocasia cuculata Chinese taro Alocasia 'hilo beauty' (Small) Alocasia macrorrhiza'Variegata' (Large Plant) Aristolochia fimbriata White Veined Hardy Dutchman's Pipe Phyllostachys nigra "Black Bamboo" (one small for special trade) Arundo donax 'Variegata' (Variegated giant reed) Liriope Green (Lots) Scadoxus Multiflorus (Haemanthus grandiflorum) Blood Lily White Calla lily Zephyranthes (zeff-er-RAN-theez) Fairy lily, Rain lily. Pink Yellow & White Duranta 'Sapphire showers' variegated Nandina domestica 'Firepower' Ceropegia woodii Sting of Hearts, Rosary Vine Kalanchoe Donkey Ears "Gastonis Bonnieri"-plant Kalanchoe -Bryophyllum daigremontianum Mother of Thousands Euphorbia Pencil cactus Agave americana agave, century plant `blue agave' and 'Variegated' Opuntia Prickly Pear Pedilanthus tithymaloides Variegated Devil's Backbone Night Blooming Cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Yucca Colocasia esculenta fallax Colocasia esculenta 'Violet Stem' Clematis 'Sweet Autumn' Clerodendron bungei Crinum asiaticum Crinum americanum - Spider Lily Crinum J.C. Harvey Crinum White Prince Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet' Boston fern. Hoya carnosa -Wax Plant Plain Green Leaf Hoya Carnosa Variegata Lantana montevidensis (sellowiana)Purple Trailing Lantana Musa zebrina 'rojo' Musa Yellow Chinese Musa Blue Java Beaucarnea recurvata Pony Tail Palm Cycas revolute Sago Palm Cyperus alternifolius Umbrella Palm Philodendron Domesticum Variegatum Philodendron Monstera Oblique Leichtlinii `Swiss Cheese' Philodendron Scandens Heart Leaf Philodendron Philodendron Scandens Medio Pictum - Varigated philo Philodendron Nutans Velvet Leaf Ruellia brittoniana Mexican petunias `Mexican Bluebell', White Katie,'Pink Katie', 'Baby Katie' Ruellia squarrosa Creeping ruellia 'Blue Shade' syngonium podophyllum V-Arrowhead Syngonium podophyllum 'White Butterfly' Live Oak seedlings Bignonia speciosa Violet Trumpet Vine CESTRUM NOCTURNUM Night Blooming Jasmine Ficus pumila Fig Ivy, Creeping Fig Jasminum polyanthum Pink Jasmine, Lonicera japonica Japanese , Purpleleaf Honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle) Passiflora Red Stigmaphyllon littorale ORCHID (BUTTERFLY VINE) Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Angyo' Tri Color Jasmine WATER PLANTS Copperleaf- Alternanthera reineckii Hardy Frog Bit- Limbonium spongeanum Parrots Feather- Myriopyllum aquatica White Snowflake- Nymphoides cristata Horsetail Rush- Equisetum hyemale Papyrus Dwarf - Cyperus haspan Pickerel Rush Blue large- Pontederia cordata var Sensitive plant-Aeschynomene fluitan Thalia- Thalia dealbata Umbrella Palm- Cyperus alternifolius Variegated Dwarf Bamboo- Dulichium arundinaceum Var. Water Celery Variegated - Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo' Widows tears spiderwort Tami