I cannot seem to find this species of dutchman in my state, Florida. They all seem to have Calico ones. I need the wooly pipevine for the pipevine butterflies.

"About passionvine...do you know if it spreads so easily like that up north?" Most varieties of passionvine do go crazy, but the cats make quick work of it once the gulf frits find it! Last year, I had dozens of cats at any one time, and most of the summer, they'd eaten every tiny speck green from the vine (they'd sort of crawl around pathetically looking for food... I gave a couple hundred cats over a period of a few months to a friend who grows a ton of passionvine so she could feed them). My vine has recovered and is growing wonderfully right now, nice and lush, but I've seen frits in my yard already, so it's just a matter of time before they devour it again. So, in short, if you're growing passionvine for butterfly gardening, you can never have enough, and I consider it a plus that it grows so well. The first butterflies I ever raised (I'm in Houston, too) were swallowtails--I went to harvest some parsley one day, and discovered cats on it (that's how I got into butterfly gardening, actually--it was a happy accident). Now I grow a bunch of fennel for them, which they prefer over the parsley (they won't touch the parsley until the fennel is gone), and the fennel grows really well in our area and is very easy to find at all the garden centers, so try that, too. I'm also growing frog fruit and blue pea vines this year, and both of those host plants are growing very nicely right now, but no cats yet on either. And, of course, milkweed, but no matter how much I have it's never enough. Good luck!

Hi everyone! I have starts (4 to 6 inches plus roots) from a very hardy, single white (red center) Rose of Sharon shrub. I am looking for Wooly Thyme to plant along the edge of my terrace. Thank you, and enjoy the sunshine!

I'd be interested in a trade. I have seeds harvested this spring and summer from tithonia, assorted poppies( one is an antique from Civil war era in a grapey color, another is a peony type; all are mixed to some extent), larkspur, cornflower, gaillardia, dill, catnip. Have older seed which has been stored in fridge --assorted flowers, vegetables and herbs. LMK if looking for something in particular. Please email directly: rositoes@txcyber.com.