Send me a self addressed stamped envelope and I will gladly send you some fresh black knight niola morning glory seeds it is the only variety I am growing...don't want to trade at the moment.

My ivy leafed small light blue morning glories bloomed first and got to about four foot tall. The Early morning, or tall mix got tallest at about ten foot and bloomed much later. Because they needed to be sown after frost I didn't see a lot of difference between my direct sown and winter sown. I didn't use the best soil though and my drainage was bad. This year I'm doing more and will be direct sowing for ease of planting out.

Good morning Lucy, No football for me! LOL DH will be working tonight so I do not have to watch! Weather a little cool but nice, Rain tomorrow. :( So a will enjoy today, maybe get some more seeds started. Have a great day, Dorothy I love your photo books, no matter how you set them up. ;)

FOAS, you have some valid and thought-provoking points. Shark's fin issue is a very simple issue. Shark's fin has no taste, and it is becoming known that it also has little nutritional value, and as a matter of fact eaten in large quantities, may even cause sterility in men. Shark's fin is popular in China only as a status item to the older, and now very wealthy but still not very educated generation. The next generation will have not much interest in shark's fin at all. Overall, endangered species is a complex issue. Land animals can be hunted to extinction very easily, but not sea animals ( excluding ocean mammals). Keeping in mind that I am not advocating eating endangered species at all. At some point, the law of supply and demand will take over. The remaining few sharks, skates, or any other sea life, will be $5,000 a lb. What endangers skates is a combination of over-harvesting and bad fishing methods from fishing other species (Bottom dredging fishing). At the end, over population and pollution will be more of a problem to skates and sea life than anything else. Eating skate wings is not a popular thing here in the USA to worry about. The eating habits of fish here is very wasteful of natural resources. Filleting a fish throws away a great deal of the fish. There are many fish we consider trash fish. We really need to learn from other cultures to conserve food supply. We basically waste 1/3 to 1/2 of our food supply because of bad eating habits. It is a crime considering the global food supply situation. "----- Overfished and overfishing thresholds are set using a unique system based on three-year averages of skate take in annual fisheries-independent surveys. In 2005, the barndoor skate was downgraded from "threatened" to "endangered" on the IUCN Red List. This might lead Seafood Watch to rank the status of the barndoor skate as of "critical conservation concern"; however, its latest biomass index shows a rapid and significant rebuilding trend which started about 1999 and lasted through 2006, and biomass is currently at 62% of MSY. The species is no longer considered to be overfished and overfishing is not occurring. The stock status of the barndoor skate therefore ranks as a moderate conservation concern. The latest biomass index for the winter skate shows that the stock has rebuilt to 93% of MSY. Given the recent increase in stock biomass, winter skate is not overfished and overfishing is not occuring. Seafood Watch ranks the winter skate stock status as a moderate conservation concern.-----" dcarch