I have two of a yellow variety and also want more, more, more, so it's really good to know they're easy from seed. Thanks.

My offering's a hybrid noisette rose, Crespescule (actually the noisettes period). I purchased her the spring before last before I had a good place to plant her, so I tucked her in below a pawlonia, which promptly arched over and cast complete shade all day all summer. No blooms, needless to say, but with total neglect she grew into a nicely shaped shrub with lush and handsome foliage that was completely unbothered by anything. This spring I moved her to the sun, and she's been happily putting out lovely little apricot-gold blooms ever since--without spraying or particular attention, and again without any problems at all. The Japanese beetles did munch some but did minimal damage compared to other plants nearby. Fragrance is slight, unlike many other noisettes, but she's a very, very nice old-timey rose with a sweet cottagey look. I've got her right next to my kitchen door now.

Sugarhill,
Don't give up on the Tricyrtis hirta seed yet, it often requires 2-3 or more years for them to germinate. I have seedlings appearing in a garden area where the original plants were removed several years ago. They also are stoloniferous and form offsets readily. Once the offset develops into a selfsustaining plant, the stolon disappears and you have a seperate plant.A single stem potted up this fall, will usually produce 3-4-5+ plants that will flower next year.
There are early flowering species, T. formosana and late flowering ones, which have yellow flowers. One of the best yellow-flowering one's is a hybrid, T. x 'Eco Yellow Spangles', introduced by Don Jacobs of ECO-Gardens.
I grow dozens(or is it now hundreds?) of Tricyrtis species & cultivars and just potted up 20 of the newest available hybrid, T. x 'Lemon Twist', a cross of T. flava x T. ohsumiense, with dark-spotted leaves and yellow flowers in October.
Warning! Tricyrtis are addictive! (No known treatment presently exists)
Rb

Rb, why are you potting up tricyrtis? Are they not winter hardy here?

Sugarhill,
Yes, all of the Tricyrtis species are hardy here. One hybrid cultivar that I am trialing, T. x 'Tricolor' is said to prefer a colder climate than ours. Two years old now and so far, so good.
The one's I am potting were small tissue culture plants and outgrew their cells. In pots, I can protect them more easily from slugs, who will pass up every other plant in the garden to munch on a Tricyrtis (common name: Toad lily or more appro, 'Slug Munchies'!). Best defence is to set the pots on a sheet of copper foil, but with the cost of copper these days, that's out of the question. So Sluggo will have to do.
Rb

I have a copuple of different varieties of toad lily. One that seriously needs thinning after 4 years. Love them! Love that they show up so delicate looking when everything else is winding down. I haven't had a problem with slug damage in that bed. But then I don't seem to have a slug problem more snails and wild violets that won't die.

This year I discovered the outrageous bloom of spider lily (Hymenocallis caroliniana). I had planted it next to the front porch just to give it a temporary home. I never expected it to do anything more than exist, certainly not bloom. I didn't even notice the bloom stalk until the first bloom opened.

This is a native wetland area plant that I have rescued, but this one was a gift from a fellow rescuer.

Here is a picture from another website to show you what it looks like (this is a single flower, each stalk contains 5-6 flowers):
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And now I have some seeds!

Oh, esh. That's beautiful. If that's a wetland plant, it looks like I'm going to have to crowd one more thing into my bog garden.