John, the FLEPPC has put out that Invasives list for some time, and there are lots of clueless nurseries, mainly the smaller ones that will continue to sell plants on that list. Simple. It's up to people to be responsible and not buy them I do find it unnerving that many say so quickly "go ahead and plant it (the B. variegata cv.)", especially since it was mentioned Teeka lives next to a wetland! Did you mention means to ensure seedlings would be snuffed out in mulch or mowed over as a contingency for your "go ahead" recommendation? And Boom1, CEntral and South FLorida are not microclimates...the Invasives lists distinguishes among the three parts of the state (N, C, S), primarily based on the winter cold limiting factor. Central and Southern can be ambiguous because of frosts, and often a killing freeze in lower central FL occurs (now seemingly) only once per decade, rather than annually.

Marcie... I have "Pata de Vaca" trees & seeds - color purple. I can send you a couple. I had white but I lost the tree with a previous years frost storm. Is there anyone who would trade purple for other color(s)?

Those orchids look like the blooms on hesperaloe coming up out of the ground, seems like the deer would chomp them down, do they? Pink asparagus (deer candy) About that important seed in your pocket, I always like surprises of finding a plant I thought failed or that I didn't have. This year my surprise was two sand penstemons (P. ambiguus) volunteers that showed up when I was trimming back grasses. I was very upset that my one and only plant had died last year, the one started years ago from seed I'd purchased from PoSW. This is my absolute favorite penstemon and I always saved every seed and sowed a lot of them by hand and tossed all the rest in that area but for some reason its not too successful from seed, unlike the other types. Last fall I'd planted the last saved seed in pots left outside and ended up with zero plants. I CAREFULLY moved one of the plants to a choice spot since it was hiding under a large grass. So far so good. It blooms for almost three months and is gorgeous, flowers so brightly white they are like porcelain. You mentioned Yucca glauca elsewhere and how pretty the bloom is, I agree with that. We have a lot of them coming up on the land we own out by Norman, in fact they are quite common in Oklahoma. Twice I've dug a few tubers, planted them and then dug them back out again. With my space issues I always rethink it and then decide I don't need it. Partly the plants don't look all that great unless they are growing in a big field where they form large colonies with lots of dead yucca leaves but even so, its good contrast in the grasses because they are the same height and those stiff spikes just look fantastic as you look across a field. They look great blooming from a distance but up close they look like a good place for rats to nest in.

Actually there are 5 endangered or threatened species. A. meadii, Mead's milkweed, A. engelmanniana, Engelman's milkweed, A. lanuginosa, A.ovifolia, and A. stenophylla. All of them except A. engelmanniana are, or were present in Illinois. A. engelmanniana occurs further west starting in Kansas and Nebraska, but close enough to probably be hardy here.