Vina.. few things on your list interest me. (perennial Sweet peas, Clematis: Arctic Queen and few others) don't have the time to go through the list right now. (at work) can you save a spot for me to trade with you. I'll look at your want list again later and let you know what I have to offer. just by glancing at it I think I have rose of sharon, daisies.. will let you know tonight.

I take all of your cautions about Morning Glories to heart, and I won't plant them so that they actually use the roses as trellises, but I do think that those of you who rail against them are thinking of the perennial version and not the annual versions that are available. I am well aware of the shed or house-eating qualities of the perennial Morning Glory; I planted one because I wanted it to hide an ugly shed, and it does a pretty good job of that. But the annuals are....just that....annuals which die back (at least here in Zone 9), and occasionally (only occasionally) reseed and even then only minimally. To get MG's to do well here I have to start them indoors because they like more heat than we get. Still, I do think you are all right that they would be too big and too heavy and block too much air if planted as a true companion to roses, and so....I'm just not gonna do it. Gee, it's so much fun to have been able to log on at all that I'm just going on and on.... Susan

I grew perennial sweet peas by mistake the first year I wintersowed. I didn't know that there was a perennial version, and I planted them up in a pot but no flowers all year. After I contacted the one who sent me the seed she said she didn't know, but 'they just came up every year'. But I forgot that I had planted a few seedlings in front of a peony and I have been trying to get rid of that each year since. It has a huge taproot, which I cut back savagely each fall and it comes back. But the flowers, although with no fragrance, are beautiful. Mine are pale pink and white, and I control it by cutting it back during the year. It produces copious seeds, but does not seem to re-seed.

Hi everyone, Great discussion! I really like rose campion too. I agree with everything you've said, especially about it getting a bit ratty when it goes to seed, and about the color being hard to place in color themed gardens (which mine never are, lol). Great plant though. I also call the color "screaming pink", and I love it. The whites and pinks are great too. Right now I'm growing a fun variegated-leaf type with white swirls on the fuzzy grey leaves. Hopefully they'll bloom for me next spring (they're just mid-sized seedlings now--about 25% of the seeds came out variegated). Fun! Has anyone tried the double-flowering form? I've seen it in a few catalogs and have been tempted. The flowers look like small carnations--really neat. Apparently it rarely-to-never self sows, which some folks might like. If you've tried it feel free to share. Thanks again, Grant