Looking For Seeds Of The Butterfly Pea--double Flowered

[sbk]

I failed to buy some seeds off of Ebay when in the US this year. Amazing how time slips by so quickly and before you know it all that stuff you procrastinated is now too late to do

Anyway, does anyone have the double version of the Butterfly Pea vine growing in their garden? or a neighbor's garden and you aren't afraid to liberate some seeds?

Here is a picture, it is called Aanchan in Thai

[bina]

is that the same as sweet pea (smells heavenly, climbs everywhere); cause if it is, soon i can send u seeds .... ?

latin name, then i can ask kibbutz gardner since many folk here have it climbing around walls and up porch poles.

bina

[sbk]

No, different family altogether. but thanks anyway.

Sweet pea's are nice, but I think wouldn't do well in our humidity. What time of year do they grow there?

[bina]

what we call winter but is actually more like an early spring weather in other countries: rain, cold but not below zero, with lots of hot days.... in general, due to global warming (those dirty words again), our winters are getting warmer with less rain and our summers are getting longer and hotter (not so good for winter wheat and other rain based crops)....but with irrigating, the sweet peas seem to grow until late summer. almost everything kicks the bucket in august september with the dry heat winds...

on that note: our garden veggies seem to have picked up speed finally although due to the late rains this yearwe had an overgrowth of giant snails that hibernate in summer and come out with the seasonal rains so our coriander (pakchi), basils, and other soft leaf herbs were anihilated almost over nite and some of these were asian types that i'd ordered from my parents in arizona as seeds....but peppers, gourds and later plantings are working out ok.

funnily enough, there is some yellow flower that looks like a daisy that now grows on a lot of moshavim (rural villages) because the seeds were brought over by thai workers and the flowers like our climate. they are rather invasive and take over all the areas where thai workers live or used to live (usually back lots near chicken houses and such)... i would like some but in my area no one has them.... dont know what they are called:

yellow, tall, like black eyed susans or something similar. any clue???

Edited June 12, 2007 by bina

[sbk]

I have those too. I found the name once, many years ago. Perhaps I saved the name in my gardening book. I will look.

I believe this is the flower you are talking about, right bina?