Cardinal climber seedlings. From 2009 seeds.

I'm overly proud of these little plantlets.  Three years ago I bought and planted one small cardinal creeper plant and it had a successful summer in my vegetable garden, growing up, over, around, and  through lots of other plants in my garden. I saved some seeds and finally got around to planting them this year. They did very well which shows that seeds can linger a few years and still be viable.  The hummingbirds like the flowers and deer will only occasionally nip at the plant.