Stone, I only had this one plant last year and would be so happy to have enough seeds to grow 2 or 3 of these plants so that it could reseed and start a patch of these. I stop at every nursery I see looking for these and no one, even the woman I got it from last year, has them or every heard of this plant. And it wasn’t the master gardeners, it was the county extension office. I just checked where I put it back in the ground after its uncalled for pruning, and nothing is coming up. Sorry to be so long replying to your great message, but you don’t get a notification that there has been a comment to follow ones posting.

How much seed do you want? Wildseed farms in TX offers as much as a pound of seed… (they do have regular seed packets) http://shop.wildseedfarms.com/Standing-Cypress/productinfo/3223/ To get baby plants from your biennials, they must be allowed to set seed in the garden… Cutting the flowers off does NOT promote rebloom, it just kills the plant… Examples of biennials include foxglove, carrots, parsley, and some blackeyed susans. Biennials usually come up in the late summer or Autumn, and bloom the following year…. It just feels like the same year… Horrible story about those “master gardeners”.

WOW!!! Thanks so much! I sent pix to the county extension office (and showed the pictures to several instructors in my Master Gardener classes this year), but couldn’t get it identified that way so I dug it up and took it in last October. The agent cut it in half to take a picture of it laying on a white background and then handed it back to me to put in the trash. Stunned, I picked it up and took it home to replant. I don’t know if it will come back up, but no seeding occurred from the beautiful blooms; hence, my desire to get identification so I could get more. The Nagogdoches TX person who posted the picture on February 8th may not have seen the plant flower yet. I am perplexed as to why mine bloomed the first year, but will take my blessings as they come. Thanks again, Nancy

nice work stone!

They were close… not a cypress vine, Standing Cypress (Ipomopsis rubra) http://hawthornhillwildflowers.blogspot.com/2010/01/standing-cypress-ipomopsis-rubra.html As this plant is a biennial, there’s no need to get more to share… just wait until the babies show up this autumn… and then share. I remember when you posted the “cedar seedling”… http://www.walterreeves.com/name-that-plant/evergreen-seedling/ I’m glad that you came back to let us know how it did!