Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Let’s Swap some plants! Ric & Holly’s, 1 by ROSES_R_RED

ROSES_R_RED wrote:
Rob (DH) and I have decided to give this a try hoping that my seedlings will turn into something decent. He helps me with the grunt work, but these meetings and trips might get him interested in the actually planting and all the care that goes into the different species.

I am especially hopeful that my blushing susie vine will be as successful as it was 2 years ago. It was mixed with morning glories. I soon found the morning glories becoming too invasive for the area where I planted them. Now I give instructions to Rob to dig out any heart shaped flowers near the beds. Live and learn.

Most of the plants in my beds are too new to divide, but I need to start lots more to finish the landscaping so that it is not all boring flat lawn.

I have some shrubs that I could bring cuttings from (if I was sure how to do it.)

sand cherry
wisteria
purple smoke bush
varigated weigela
lilac
lilac jolee
crape myrtle
beautyberry
caryopteris blue mist
limelight hydrangea
everblooming hydrangea
rose of sharon
weeping cherry tree
purple pear tree
kwansan cherry tree
weeping willow tree
red crabapple tree

My hostas might be getting large enough to divide. Need some instruction on how to divide and transport them.

My daylilies and other perennials were put in last year and will be ready to divide and collect seed from somewhere in the future.

I have about 30 hybrid tea and floribunda rose bushes that I am going try to propagate (with help from some experts).

Rob and I will be planning to stay over after the swap and take the advice of HollyAnn and Ric on where to stay and what to see.

If this info is on the wrong thread, I will edit it out and copy and paste somewhere else.

So happy that I discovered Dave's Garden and all its members!! (almost 2 years ago when we first moved in)

We are also planning to visit the Philly Flower show either with the bus ride that is being arranged in town or by car on Wednesday after which we will stay at my daughter's house across the river in New Jersey.

Hopefully I will get to meet some of you (who I feel that I already know)

Teri