lullaby, I would like something from my want list, or I'll look at your have list. Let me know. Bea, supposedly they lay their eggs on it. Google it and see if you still want some. It's a short pipevine that looks good in a hanging basket.

Thought I'd "hop" in here. This is a plant I've been growing from seed for several years. Last year I potted up the plants in the terra cotta plastic bowls--about 15" in diameter, and they did well. I put the pots in a protected place over the winter, and they are back. They have little tubers that look a lot like the asclepias tuberosa tubers. You could probably dig the tubers and store them. I lost my first crop as I let the tubers freeze. Putting them in a bag of peat and storing them over the winter would probably work well if you don't have a garage or greenhouse, and you are in zone 8 or colder. HTH, Sandy

Yesterday on a trip to the blackland prairie my perception of Aristolochia fimbriata as a small pipevine was shattered by the sight of plants that could simply not be described as a small vine. A proper description would have been lush, vibrant, and certainly no less than a medium sized Aristolochia, but these babies were more impressive in mere foliar mass than all of my pipevines except A. gigantea. The leaves were huge, their spread was wide and dense, and the amount of foliage before my eyes coming from a single plant was in excess of all of my pipevines excluding A. gigantea. Greater than that of the A. tomentosa, A. californica, A. serpentaria, A. elegans, and the A. fimbriata growing upon my grounds. The gardener who over saw these spectacular specimens had free range chickens roaming about whom de caterpillared the host plants. This could be the reason that these plants attained such great size along with the fertilization by manure. My plants have always been eaten to the ground by pipevine or goldrim swallowtails several times a year. Also these received a good bit more sun than all of mine. Well, I am going to plant some A. fimbriata in a very sunny spot up at the woods property.

i keep the seeds in small manilla envelopes. i started some new vines in augeust from seed that was 3 years old.