I think $10 is fair. Besides it produces seeds and you can propagate yourself til you have the amount you want.

I got mine in Spring from Shady Oaks. The 4 inch pots are 10 dollars each there, too. Starter plants are cheaper. I threw some of the seeds from my new plants in a pot, seedlings after a week. Love Almost Eden though. So great to work with.

If you just need seeds, I can send you some.

I got some seeds in the spring, Iris. They didn't come up. How do you plant them? Covered with soil for about a half inch? Less?

Yes, I like Almost Eden also. I didn't like the $15 shipping charge for three plants, though. I'm probably being unreasonable.

I just took one of the open seed pots and sprinkled the seeds in a pot where the stuff I planted didn't come up. Scratched around a bit, so they were barely covered.

The 15 dollars aren't so bad compared to what I paid for shipping when I ordered a few plants from Annie's.

I ordered three from Almost Eden. I called around and no nursery in our area carries them. They are great for pipevine swallowtails. They eat all the foliage, but the leaves come back quickly. Hopefully with the new plants some will grow long enough to flower and produce seeds.

You wont regret it

In certain situations a. Fimbriata can become very well established.

It is by far the most robust Aristolochia I have grown.

Tom and all, I read somewhere that Fimbriata seeds need to be planted when freshly harvested. I haven't personally tested that theory, but I do plant them as soon as collected and have good success. I mailed seeds to a friend and while I don't know how long he waited before planting he told me later that they didn't germinate for him.

Do they usually come back late in Spring? They should be hardy for my Zone, but I am not seeing anything yet. This was their first winter here, so I don’t have any experience with it. My wooly pipeline is halfway up the fence by now.

MIne have been actively growing for close to a month in zone 8b, and we had one of the coldest winters I can recall. I have one that was potted that did not come back and another that did.

When I look it up, Iris, it says hardy to zone 7. So, you are right on the line. It did well here in zone 9b, but that's no help to you. Let us know if yours comes back. I hope it does. I'm having difficulty finding the right formula to grow this plant. It doesn't seem to like direct sunlight, but I'm not sure how much water it needs, nor the type of fertilizer to use for it.

Thank you both. They seemed to do very well last year. Just morning sun and it stays pretty wet where they were. I guess I will wait a week or two before looking for replacement plants. My passion vines just started maybe a week ago (even the one staying green for the past couple of years froze to the ground this time) And some of my Miss Huff lantanas I found out just today that they made it.

I lost mine and I'm in zone 9a (unless they are just amazingly late to return?). I'm not sure what happened it was fine until the frost... I'd say wetness was an issue but I gave it the same amount of water as both a western penstemon species and a swamp milkweed so I can't imagine it would want more than a wetland plant or less than an arid plant.

They are very good looking though

For once A. fimbriate has gotten a head start in San Antonio TX and are growing fairly large before the Pipevine swallowtail lay eggs, they hatch, and the cats eat the leaves down to the nubs ...

They've all been planted in pots where they make a nice trailer, but a few have seeded themselves into the ground.

They're already blooming and forming seed pods ...

Pipevine butterflies are just now beginning to lay eggs on my plants.

A friend, Linda M., in Seguin TX, a few miles east of San Antonio, already has scores of Pipevine butterflies visiting her flower garden. On her acreage the Swan flower Aristolchia erecta hosts the cats. It is a very small plant and the caterpillars have to crawl from plant to plant to get enough to eat.

It will be a few weeks before seeds are ripe, but if anyone wants seeds for A. fimbriate message me through my Houzz page for the address to send a SASE. I believe they need to be planted when fresh.

Roselee, your plants are looking fantastic!

Yay, looks like at least one of my two plants is finally coming back.

I shouldn’t have worried. It looks like I have a lot of seedlings coming up. Must be from last year’s flowers. Mine is just starting to flower now.

I’m still figuring out how to grow them. Right now mine are doing best in mostly shade with potting soil and a lot of water.

I’d like to hear how you guys grow yours.

At this time of the year, mine are getting a couple of hours of sun in the afternoon. The soil there is pretty good. Close to the house, so I have been putting mulch on there almost every year for 25 years. It’s pretty wet, there are pots nearby that need daily watering. My seedlings are also doing well. I potted some of them, they didn’t mind even though it was 90degrees. Hope I find some homes for them, it’s a bit crowded now.

Tom, repeatedly I found that they grew well in pots,
and that the same plants, transplanted into ground,
remained forever in survival state,
The right amounts of soil moisture and of fertilizer had no effect,
unless to contribute to survival.

Most of the times that I have seen them become very well established and spread to where one homeowner began to view them as a weed was in very sandy soil. I have very sandy soil and this spring my oldest one emerged with leaves that were over three inches wide. However, I know of at least one other property where they grow in root bound soil and wet soils and they have survived and multiplied, but not as quickly or abundantly as the sandy soils.