O goodness! About anything I have doubles of! I'm not 100% sure what I have that would interest you, I'm flush with elephant ears, I have about 15 tradable types, lots of other tropicals, some hosta, daylily, hardy asiatic oriental trumpet orenpent martignon ... Lots of lilys If you don't mind email me and can work things out, there's a few things on your list interesting me too I realize the bulb you mentioned is not cheap, ill make a strong offer, I just hope I can tempt you with the plant I have, most are not much like the ones you have, but the elephant ears sure do good for me in zone 6 Thanks alot for the response!

Actually, I didn't know, Patty, thanks! I had pretty much given up looking for it. One question on this one (Summer Love Clematis). I read somewhere that it's parent is Sweet Autumn. I have also read Sweet Autumn is invasive for some people. I wonder if Summer Love has that characteristic? That was another reason I hesitated on tracking it down any further. I added a few to my list since I posted, definitely. I finally got that chocolate mimosa that I have been drooling over for a while. Baptisia Dutch Chocolate Cotinus (got Royal Purple & Golden Spirit-yeah!!!) Finally found a Silver Heart Brunnera After much debate, finally settled on Chocolate Dragon Persicaria out of the many "dragons" that are available. Picked up a Salvia "Amistad" at a local nursery today, to come home and google it and find out everyone and their brother wants one - score!!! Black & Blue Salvia (always wanted one) Chocolate Eupatorium Verbena Lavender Frappe (very low, lacy - supposed to spread 3 ft in the first year!) Corydalis Blue Heron (love!!!) & Canary Yellow (ummm, verdict is still out, the grower sent me a very frazzled plant) Chuck Hayes Gardenia (yeah, finally found a local one!) Coppertina Ninebark (huge 1 gal on discount!) Misc Heuchera/ellas Misc Clematis Geranium Double Jewel Geranium Tshelda My debauchery knows no bounds, apparently.

It sounds like you are suggesting producing seeds from cut flowers in a vase by cross pollinating them. I do not believe this is possible, but if you have a scientific paper saying it can be done I would enjoy reading it. Al

You are right about these being from cool elevations. I have collected seed from a couple of species in the Venezuelan Andes at between 2000 and 3000 mts elevation but they never come up at lower elevations. There is however a lowland species with pink petals spotted with green and white and browns. My relatives had it in their garden at almost sea level. It is from the coastal mountains. Unfortunately I do not have its species name on hand or a photo. I know I have seen it in one of my books of local flora but do not recall which....