Pacific Northwest Gardening: plant swap, 1 by catgal77

catgal77 wrote:
Too funny about the dandelions... I have just a few (thousand) of those as well, perhaps we should get ours together and try to create some super duper hybrids??? LOL

I brought my kitty ("Boy"... I know, not real creative or thoughtful of a name) home yesterday after being hospitalized, in isolation, and the doctor is pretty sure it is a virus and not eating a toxic plant, but I really don't know... no other cats around are sick. They wanted to keep him longer but after the $420 bill for just a night hospitalized and lots of blood tests, hubby was already furious... he is not as much of a pet-lover as I. :( Although I now have a bit of a realistic understanding that he is an animal, and there is a (monetary) limit... makes pet insurance seem very attractive when vets charge the same amount for different things as people doctors do.

Anyhow, thanks Gordon, looking forward to seeing (and getting!) those beautiful orange/red flowers... I enjoy seeing them on my walks through our neighborhood, now I just have to find the right place. Does anyone by chance have any fruiting grape vine cuttings or extra plants they don't want? I thought it would be neat to have a fruit plant that my kids could just pick the fruits right off the plant and eat 'em. But I know that they are generally attacked by animals and need to be protected in order to get any of the fruit ourselves.

I really wish I had more (and "cooler") plants to offer up... I am digging up and trying to collect all plants/seedlings/seeds that I can, and trying to recruit a friend or two in my neighborhood. I am really looking forward to this!

"Boy" is the yellow/orange one in the picture... the black one is "Girl". :)