OOPs, that should say 2010 blooms not 2009. they never bloomed in 2009, 2 months of rain and cold, prevented most of my MG from blooming last year. Ron, I remember you telling me about the blooms when I first posted about them. I don't remember if you said that Emma had the seeds or if it looked like the one being sold on ebay only. I will have to contact Emma and see if she still has some of the seeds, and if she does has she grown them again and what have they bloomed. OH, I heard from my friend on another end of my town and only one of her plants survived the chipmunk attacks this summer. Her "mutant" bloomed Wednesday and darned if we won't be surprised, it was different also, IT WAS A PURE WHITE. I like the same one that you do as well, but I do like all of them so far. I have each one growing separately and have them tagged with the color they bloomed. Will save seeds, if I get any to grow out next year. this is really becoming a yearly experiment to see what blooms and never know what to expect but the obvious. it will never bloom the same 2 years in a row, at least so far. Still have vine #4 to bloom, wonder what that one will do. Thanks for the comments everyone. Fran

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing Warren.

I have been checking this forum for weeks in hopes that Wayne was out and about! Now if you could post some pics of that 'catch', it would be wonderful!

Hi Nancy ... we do enjoy all of our woodpeckers. They all come to the feeders. I create a bird buffet on our front porch each winter to have a large covered area of comfort for them. Heated birdbath and such. We get to see the pileated babies also and their hairdos are something to behold. Could we call it spiked? We had a nest of them in our next door neighbors yard a few years back. That was really cool to get to see them feeding, etc. You can see the those photos begin here. You can close the window and look to the left. I was blessed to get a short video of Pale-billed Woodpeckers in Costa Rica with a baby popping in and out of the hole shouting for food. It was pretty high up in the canopy so it's a bit shaky but the parent returns with something and he really pops out of that hole. The parent seemed to be bothered by me, so I stopped filming to leave.