Here is the master list of seeds contained in the 2006 Seed Swap Box. Not everything has been scientifically identified. Some are store bought seed packets others are garden collected. If you want something, send in your left over seeds and I'll mail you what I've got. By mid March I plan on sending the leftovers to the Gulf area to aid the hurricane victims. Send anything to Raleigh Garden, Box 352, Garner NC 27529-0352 PERENNIALS Hollyhock - Dbl Yellow, Pinks, Purple Mix, Peach Unknown Hibiscus BabyÂs Breath Sea Holly Hosta - Med Blue & Large Green Hosta Inniswood, Hosta ventricosa Calamintha grandiflora Tickseed - Coreopsis lanceolata Digitalis - foxglove Silene Heuchera - CoralBells Columbine - various species (not canadensis) Liatris Rudbeckia - Cherokee Sunset Astilbe Echinacea - Purple Cone Flower Siberian Iris Platycodon - Pastel Blend Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis TROPICALS & MISC Chaste Tree - Vitex Hibiscus militaris Oleander - Nerium oleander - Pink, Hot Pink Brugmansia sauveolens Texas Star Hibiscus Old ManÂs Beard Golden Rain Tree Carolina Allspice Mimosa tree ANNUALS Forget Me Nots Snow in Summer Morning Glory - Grandpa Otts Bidens - Golden Eye Red Poppy Sweet William - Mixed Spilanthes - Eyeball Plant Euphorbia marginata Marigold - Safari Mix, MomÂs Yellow Tagetes erecta - Cempoalxochitl Marigold or ÂDay of the Dead Marigold Pennisetum alopecurcoides ÂMoudry Cleome - Mixed Datura - La Fleur Lilac Impatiens balsamina - Touch Me Nots Tithonia rotundiflora ÂTorch Gaillardia Chinese Houses - Collinsia BlueBonnet - Maroon Sunflower - Cinnamon Su n Verbena bonairensis Cardinal Creeper VEGGIES Tomatoes - Supersweet 100 Carrots Bell Pepper - Red (from Italy)­ Corn - Checkerd Choice Sweet Corn Corn - Bloody Butcher Dent Corn Corn - Silver Queen Hybrid HERBS Anthemis Anise Hyssop Italian Parsely Cilantro Garlic Chives Agastache ÂBlue FortuneÂ

dunno if this will clarify or not from my non-scientific viewpoint, but here goes. i had i. pennata for several yrs. then, after i got too vigorous in weeding that out, i found a source of seeds for i. quamoclit, which i'd seen and wanted really bad. anyhow, it seems more seedy/weedy than pennata, and comes up all over(no hope of weeding it all out)- but always with the extremely fine ferny foliage. i have some regular ipomeas(blue heaven, saucers, granpa otts, etc.- those are multifidas) that bloom at the same time and all over each yr, but have never seen them cross with or noticed any recognisable crosses of them and quamoclit(or pennata when i grew it). the common multifida ones cross every which way but loose with each other, but at least for me they haven't boogied with quamoclit. pup- i understood your question, but don't know the answer. it makes sense that it would be part of the genetic grab bag, but i haven't seen evidence of it. maybe your yard/experience is just that. i didn't mean that species don't or can't cross earlier, just that if the seeds are pure species, they should come true. we count on seedsman to label things correctly and breed them true. there's no way to really tell, though, just by the seeds(or plants), but i hadn't seen those 2 buggers cross or spontaneously mutate. however, because the common names are so similar, they certainly could get mixed up in a seed packet. and, who's to say some birds or storms didn't help along with some seeds from neighbor's yards? anyhow, i probably was making too many assumptions & should have kept my lip buttoned. i hope i didn't hurt any feelings. and, that's a good ? about what you call a species that can't cross. anyone?

I line up my 5-gallon pots near a fence (in an area that has bad clay soil in an area I haven't improved yet) and let them climb the fence. In a separate area, alongside the dog's fenced-in play yard, I place the 5 gallon buckets in a row about a foot from the fence and put a round wire cylinder tomato cage around each bucket, with the tomato cage resting on the ground. The vines grow and cover the cages and then meander over to the top of the fence, which is more or less even with the tops of the cages. In this way, I can have vines cover the fence and give the dogs some shade.....but the dogs can't destroy the vines, like they did when I tried to grow the vines directly on the fence itself. I have grown them in 5-gallon buckets with only a 3' tall wooden stake. The stake, though, wasn't meant to be their whole support....but just something for them to climb early on. They went up that stake and onto the fence. By midsummer the stake was completely buried under mounds and mounds of foliage. If all you have is one stake for them to climb, the first vines will climb the stake, and then other tendrils will climb the first vines, and so on and so on. Both Lowe's and Wal-mart usually have some fairly small portable trellises you can stick into a large pot, or into the ground near a large pot. Dawn

Yes Noisy Miners like anything bright and dont they go so well together, they look great....Cheers..MM.