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

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

We have Cardinal Climber here every year and I have only had to plant the seeds once or twice in 15 years since they reseed so abundantly. So, I consider them to be somewhat invasive, but it just depends on where they are growing and what else is around them. I just yank out the seedlings while they are still small if they are someplace where I really don't want them, but otherwise leave them alone. The hummingbirds love the flowers and I like that the foliage is unique. Often, the volunteers sprout very early in the season and get killed back by late freezes or frosts, so that helps keep them from overpopulating and driving me nuts. They do continue to sprout sporadically over the summer, and often I won't even notice they sprouted and grew someplace...like in the midst of other vining plants or climbing tomato cages or cornstalks or something....until they start to bloom. If the cardinal vine you are talking about is cardinal creeper instead of cardinal climber, I haven't grown that one. Dawn

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