Hi thejas, I thought you might like to know there is no email link on your member page, thus no way to email you. To set up your email, just go to the bottom on any page here, and click on Member Pages Then click on Edit your Personal Information, Page, and Preferences You will then probably be asked to login in again. Then check the box Allow other users to send you email via forms at our site. That will place a link on your member page. While there editing, you might want to fill out a seed wish list with what all might be of interest to you. Annual flowers? perennials, vines? grasses? herbs? veggies? etc? Happy Gardening and trading. Sue

I live in zone 5. A friend of mine planted this next to her house along with climbing roses and Autumn Clematis years ago. BAD idea! It has grown underneath the foundation of her house and comes back vigorously every year despite her doing her best to uproot it. This vine indeed thrives very well in zone 5 and def will become invasive. It will take time, but it will "Creep Out" and show up everywhere lol. The lady across the street has two trained around old clothes line poles to make "trees". They are beautiful. People stop all the time to ask her what kind of trees those are. She regularly mows around them and does not have an issue with them getting to full growth in the grass around the original plantings. We do tend to have unseasonably warm winters at times. Perhaps that contributes, but be careful with this one! You've been warned! lol

the flower from rose of sharon is beautiful but my neighbor Monique is lazy and does not dead head hers, it spreads everywhere even her own lawn has about 900 seedlings in that area,and they do not care. They are inconsiderate. I had to pull 275 shoots from my grass and now they planted them along the fenceline...I'm sure i will have at least 700 to pull next season. Nothing you spray on them make them die..The seedpods are still there from last year and they dont trim them either. They also have a birch tree that spews seed pods for months clogging my pool, gutters, and branches fall continuously all season long from those trees.I have pulled tons of seedling trees from that as well in my landscape, very invasive! If it was the other way around she would be going ballistic! May the wind blow their way and have them have to clean up after their own problems. Plenty of other plants to plant but they are wealthy and very very cheap.

Yes, you could pollinate them (use a paintbrush or such) but I suspect the flowers are not setting seed for other reasons. You could try misting the plants a couple of times a day (this is traditionally done to enable runner beans to set seed) - just spray a light mist of water from a hand-held atomiser - not hard enough to knock the flowers off........ and check the watering - too much? Too little? Peas are not happy with a dry environment and like a deep rich soil.