Thanks, Sandy. I'm still not quite sure. I'll make it a point to notice if there are seeds all along the stems once they're growing this year and to that point. I'm really not sure if the plants are false nettle because I never looked at them real closely. I know they get little white, barely noticeable flowers on it and they seem to be in the same arrangement as the ones in the picture. Do you happen to know if any other plant has a similar makeup? I think the plants that I have come up here every year have fairly shiny leaves, and I don't think the plant gets as high as 2 feet but I'd say one for sure. One thing I noticed about the plant is that it is extremely easy to pull out of the ground. I used to pull them out before I suspected that they might be false nettle, but they might not even be that. Oh, I just thought of another characteristic. Does the plant have kind of a sticky feel? These that I have do. If those things I mentioned don't describe false nettle, then I guess that would explain why I don't see Red Admirals here (only once in the past 3 years), and I've never noticed cats on the plants, but then again, I didn't look that closely. I was so busy with other cats that some things that I wanted to do went undone. Cathy

I also have a few butterfly pea vine seeds to share. It is the Clitoria ternatea variety. Beautiful blue flowering plant that host the long-tailed skipper. Through my experiece, it is best to grow this as a small bush as the leaves fall off the vine as it grows and I didn't think it too attractive, but your omv. Also, Nancy, your package of seeds are in my mailbox waiting for the mailman to pick it up. Nice choices. On another note, does anybody, say in Texas, have blue mist shrub or flower seeds. Queens were nectaring on it like crazy when I went to NABA in Mission, Texas. Thanks

Dear Michael, I left all my False Nettle in Florida when I moved to Alabama..Would you be so kind and send me a few seeds?? I would so appreciate that.. Greetings Susanne(SUE)

Oh my, that would be great, Susan! Oh, you're not awful at sending seeds out. I don't think I ever waited on anything from you. Hey, how about you and I do a trade? I can use lots of false nettle seeds, seriously. I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me some. I have Tropical MW seeds from last year or can wait until the ones that I brought in the house have seeds. The seed pods are pretty big, so I'd think that I'd have some before too terribly long. I could also send you some Salvia coccinea 'Lady in Red' seeds if you're concerned that yours might not reseed; that's up to you, but I have extra. I also collected some Vernonia altissima seeds...only I temporarily misplaced them. Ha. I'll find them eventually, really I will! You're so lucky to have all of that FN. I had planned on having a lot of plants and did up until a certain point. First of all, I don't think all of mine made it through the winter, and then the drought did in a lot more and left me with I think 8, or maybe 9. The one was "iffy", so I don't know exactly how many I did end up with then. They're in partial shade; I wasn't quite sure where to plant them. I think I'll let them where they are, replace the ones that died, and also plant some in another area that gets more sun and see which ones do the best...or maybe they'll both do fine. I really would like to raise some RA cats. It sounds like I have more trouble with my rue up here than you do there, Susan. I have mine planted in two locations, both of which get pretty much sun, but I wasn't sure where else to put it. I have a total of about 30 plants. This year I bet I replaced about half of them. They didn't come back from the winter. I don't know their extreme low temp that they can tolerate, but it got down to minus 15 deg. here, so maybe it was just a little bit too nippy for them. I think rue is such a beautiful plant; I hate that it makes me wheeze and makes me feel itchy (so does the Tropical MW). I didn't mind it at first, but I must have developed allergies to some of the plants that I have here. I don't know why but I had been thinking that the A. clematitis isn't hardy up here, but of course, you're right. I just looked and it said hardy to zone 6. I appreciate the info you gave on that and those other pipevines. Now I have some researching to do. I love reading about plants. You sure have a variety of pipevines. I have mostly all A. macrophylla right now. The PVS seem to love it, so I didn't really add anything else for them, but I suppose I will sometime, surely one or more of the ones you mentioned. I have a couple of A. serpentaria plants too from last year actually and STILL didn't get them planted outside. So now you know how slow I am! Ha. Yeah, that's kind of the case with me too, no more room in the inn. I'm not expanding the gardens. If I want to put something new in, I guess something will probably have to come out to make room for it. Let me know about the seeds, and if you want to trade, email me for my address. I need yours again too. I really could use the False Nettle seeds, and thank you for the offer. Cathy