bkelley408, I've just harvested some seeds from my "Catawba". It's a nice purple-flowered 12-20' tree. I don't know how true the plants will be cause there are a ton of other crepe myrtles growing in the area. Email me if you want some: fossilman42@yahoo.com.

Wow, that's amazing! Never knew you could seperate it from the mother plant, nor did I know you could keep a cutting from it and root it..another question, if a piece falls off or I need to prune it, how do you go about "rooting" it? I also have a dwarf allamanda, and a month ago, a branch grew to close to the fence, so I cut it off, but seeing how pretty and healthy it was, I didn't have the heart to throw it away, so I put it in the vase with water with cuttings from my Potho,.....and it actually grew roots!!! Not one by a long shot of having a green thumb..(I usually let nature take over), it surprised me. Now I'm thinking of planting that little branch elsewhere in our backyard...de

They are on their own roots. You can take softwood cuttings at any time and they should root quite readily.

I had a great time on Saturday. I loved meeting everyone. Thank you all for your generosity. My husband wanted to stop and watch a movie as soon as we left the park. Ugh! I looked and smelled ferocious, but we stopped and watched Captain Phillips. Awesome movie. We took our time driving back and stopped and had dinner. All in all, we had a great day. Thanks again everyone! I worked in the yard all day yesterday. My body is paying for it today at work! Thank goodness I'm not busy. Can't wait until the next plant swap. See you then! Darlene