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[JoanRRosenberg@aol.com]

I live in zone 6/7.  For what its worth, I have a Vanessa on the back porch 
fence.  It got really huge, and then one winter it died,or I thought it did.  
The next year there was nothing.  A year later, the vine regrew from the 
roots.  Apparently it was hardier than I thought.  If it had not been for my 
laziness in not getting it dug out, I would never had known that it was not 
dead, it just lost the above ground wood to the winter.  Had I been 
intelligent, I would have pruned it back and covered it in burlap for the 
winter.  I was too busy worrying about the fruit trees and ignored the 
grapes.