Alchemilla mollis is Lady's Mantle - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/179/
z3a - 9b, 18" - 24"
One of the most classic cottage garden perennials, Lady's Mantle has foliage attractive enough throughout the growing season to make it a 1st class edging plant; prefers sun but can take some part shade. It's tiny flowers bloom in chartreuse-y clouds that play especially well in dappled light and shade
Seed Swap and Chat #47 Waiting for seeds
Happy New Year Piggies..
Wanted to update you on the seeds that say start warm for 2-4 weeks before the cold period. I started 10 jugs of these- most on heat mat - at 65 degrees under lights- and -
YIPPIE-DOO! I have 3 jugs that don't need cold stratification. I have sprouts!
gentiana makinoi "marsha" - started sprouting in about a week
gentiana septemfida - sowed 12/3 - only a couple of recent sprouts so far
tricyrtis puberula - sowed 12/16 - just starting to sprout now - 5 or 6 sprouts at least.
Not sprouted, and about to be put out in cold soon if they don't:
aconitum, pulmonaria, trollius, gentiana asclepiadea, gentiana acaulis, gentiana unknown from Mom.
Well, to you delinquent piggies who haven't yet sent your seeds, Ella is too nice to do anything but urge you to send them, but I'm not that nice and understanding. This is how I feel: BY AGREEING TO PARTICIPATE, YOU AGREED TO SEND YOUR SEEDS BY DEC 20. GET OFF YOUR DUFFS AND SEND THEM. YOU ARE HOLDING UP SOWING FOR THE REST OF US, AND KEEPING ELLA FROM FINISHING AND GETTING ALL THIS STUFF OUT OF HER WAY. I THINK THIS IS REALLY RUDE!
If I was running this swap, and thankfully for you I'm not, I would ban people who didn't get their seeds in when agreed from participating in the future, or I would tell them that they have to send seeds oinked from them individually to all who oinked, and they won't get the seeds they oinked until they do. End of lecture.
PS. Ella, I think you should post a list of those who haven't sent their seeds yet.
Sorry to start the New Year on that less than friendly note. Ella, I don't know how you do it.
Those of you with pet frogs and lizards, I sure hope you make sure that they're not starving to death after they finish off the gnats or whatever.
Chelorie ? obliqua common name
Ella, sometimes folks write the letter 'n' in a way that I read as 'ri'. So, I suspect this one is -
Chelone obliqua known as Turtlehead. z5a - 9b; 2 - 3'
This is the main host for the Maryland state butterfly "Baltimore Checkerspot", which at one time was an endangered species since deer love snacking on its host around here.
Spitfire Vffa hyb. What is VFFa?
Since VFF is often used to indicate a tomato's resistant to verticilium and fusarium diseases, my guess with this one is that it's a tomato, and there is a tomato cultivar with this name - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/30602/
Bull horn acacia seeds. Is that atree?
Acacia is a huge genus, with some species making trees in zones milder than mine in zone 7. Many acacia species are especially known for their fragrance, so worth growing in pots, even if they are tree-wannabees...some have silver leaves
Welp, there is no cultivar named Bull Horn for the genus Acacia in PlantFiles. I'm going to keep going with PF, so if someone else wants to google this one meanwhile, that would help Ella.
After I go through PlantFiles, I'll go back and try searching through www.google.com
Commelina dayflower - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=Commelina&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&searcher%5Bgrex%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=genus&images_prefs=both&Search=Search
Lots of species in the genus of Commelina, and no way to tell which one. The one that volunteers around here is fun in the wild, but too sprawly, neighbor-thumping and weedy for my garden. The flower is a very pretty blue, though.
Love in a Puff is Cardiospermum halicacabum - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/648/
I don't know who could type the species name of this one with a straight face - this one just cracks me up - Steven King used the middle two syllables when describing something disgusting about one of his nefarious characters...and then following with 'bum'???
Ella, stop me if you want someone more 'mature'
heehee
Herbertia lahue - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/132027/
Common name is Sky Nymphs, which when combined with Ella's Sky Miles, is a literary treasure trove I'll leave to the next one to come along.
Must be the sky-blue color, because I don't see getting far into the sky on a less-than-6" bulb
tricyrtis what is it? - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=Trycirtus&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&searcher%5Bgrex%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=genus&images_prefs=both&Search=Search&searcher[genus]=Tricyrtis
This one is the Japanese toad lily, beloved food of slugs and possibly rabbits and woodchucks, judging from its quick disappearing acts in my garden.
I'm going to winter sow this one just one more time, though, because it does fine in quite a bit of shade and is graceful with the curving arc of its branches - about 18" - 24" in my garden - very interesting architecture/pattern to the flowers
oh no keep going blue. Hehhehe waitign to se e what ya come up with for the draco one. hehhehehe
Love in a puff = Cardiospermum halicacabum
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/648/
ants
Cohosh mineral, veggie, plant ? http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/646/
My guess with this one is the genus, Actaea, and the local one is Actaea racemosa, commonly known as Black Cohosh for its herbal medicinal qualities, as well as Fairy Candles, for the way its late summer spires of fluffy white flowers seem to float in dappled light of woodland paths. z4a - 8b; 4 - 6' when in flower
ants I already did Love in a Puff. I'm going to do the following ones next. I'm glad to see you chiming in - would you like to do some other ones so we can get this done for Ella quicker?
Pavonia hastata is that a peony.
Agalinis purpurea common name
Bidens aristosa commonname?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2340/ dracocephalum moldavicum
schizanthus hookerii
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/65610/
Pavonia hastata
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/59615/
Bidens aristosa
http://www.finegardening.com/plantguide/bidens-aristosa-tickseed-sunflower-long-bracted-beggar-ticks.aspx
Agalinis purpurea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agalinis_purpurea.jpg
dracocephalum Moldavica
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2340/
Oops sorry Karen I see that you were going to do a couple of those :)
Happy New Year everyone :)
Pavonia hastata is that a peony.
Nope, not a peony - Pavonia hastata is known as Rock Rose - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/59615/
z7a - 10b; 2 - 4'; pale pink
Yeah, I see you are much quicker than I am :) Even with the ones that I sent in! :) LOL :)
ants
spellign that looks like Billi's monstrosa is that the name and what is it?
I dunno
Here's the entries in PlantFiles that include 'monstrosa' as part of their name - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=monstrosa&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&searcher%5Bgrex%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=genus&images_prefs=both&Search=Search
Anyone else know about this one?
ps - yea! nice to see ya, moonhowl and Lea and ants :)
Castilleja coccinea Indian Paintbrush - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54751/
z4b - 8b; 18 - 24"
shore do light up them prairies out west - makes me green with envy
I'm sitting here procrastinating I wonder if that means that will be what I do for the next year lol If it is the year won't change much for me Ha!
I wasn't sure about that Billi's monstrosa either :)
Does anyone else wanna see what they can do with the following two I did not identify -
Billi's monstrosa - my notes are here - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7416868
Bull horn acacia seeds. Is that atree? - my notes are here - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7416757
Lea, Ants & Moonhowl, looks like we got 'er sewed up, except for the above two.
I'll trying googling, but I don't google as the crow flies, so I might be wandering around for a while - in other words - HELP :)
karen
Nice to see yall too :)
The one that looks like Billi's monstrosa might be
Bellis perennis 'Monstrosa Mixed'?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/125126/
ants
This was so funny when I was looking the Indian Paintbrush up Karen, I was thinking it sounded like something that you and I would both plant and I was right I saw your comment on them in the plantfiles and you have it :)
Ruefully laughing with you, Lea - I too was sitting here procrastinating when Ella asked for ID help. At my age, am I really going to reform? Well, we can try, can't we?
Oh no, Lea - I don't have the Indian Paintbrush in the sense that I grow it in my dark, leafy, humid eastern cave of constricted space. But I have it in my heart where I'd love to take a mule train with dh and other like-minded souls out to some western prairie where I could admire it in the wild.
Bulls-Horn Acacia
Acacia sphaerocephala
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/64327/
ants
Bellis perennis "monstrosa"
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/125126/
By cracky, Ants and Moonhowl and Lea - looks like we dun it! That was fun :)
LOL :) Was kinda like a game wasn't it :)
ants
I'm being nosey, don't knck it off. I thought Indian Paintbrush had to have a host plant to live. I was wondering if this was the same one?
You all know what you are doing I'm just being inquisitive. Happy New Year to you all. Happy Plants to everyone.
Oops - well there are two we didn't get -
"grape" that's all that was on that packet
And then Ella wants to know which hibiscus is the one that's illegal to grow - don't know that one, either
Hahahahahhahahaha hehehehehehehhe ROFLOL big time.
That my ide a of an Indian Paintbrush too and it must be somebody elses cuz the person who sent it also sent a q tip in the package to paint the seed s with . snicker snicker.
I sa w the qtip and stuff onit and thought oh no what goign on here, as it was in my hand with a bunch of other envies i wa s seprating.
mekos.. Your buggy looking bean seeds stil freakign me out layign out all on my bed. I wa s like pelase, let these be seeds and not have one of them decid e to get up and start crawling. LOL
Oh also whoever sent the seed fertilier packages, they had hole in the and chased fert seed pellet s all over. I think I got em all but if I wake up oen morning and have grown another 2 feet and am sproutign more appendages. I'll knwo I missed some. hahahhahaha
I tell ya I get a kick out of the sorting. We'll I'll make sur e that I don't put them toadlilei s next to the package of seeds that ha s a lift off the envie flyign type butterfly. No inappropiate behavior on my be d between seeds now. snicke r sicker.
Thansk for finding them all for me folks. That wa s amajor , major big help.
Perhaps the reference is to the Texas Red Star hibiscus, it is not illegal to grow, but is often times mistaken for cannabis (pot) as the leaves are similar.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1181121/posts
yep just the word grape . Well what ya know. decide d to untape and open the envie up. Gues s what it grape seeds the edible grape seeds. They look almost too clean to be from real grapes unles s somebody did an awsesoem job of cleanign them. Wonder if grape seed are sold by themselves?
Nope know the Teas star not illegal cuz I grow and sell them. I watch folsk go bezerk and oen year had an elderly lady at market call cops on me. she told cops i was sellign weed plants. They came out udner cover and with police car to my booth and checked. I laughe d my hea d off and I have helicopters fyling in low all the tiem takign pics to make sure I not growign weed. Like I really gonan do somethgin liek that and spend 20 years in jail. I have lot s fo fun with the plants at market though. Ya sure cna tell who has in the 70's doen it with the smile s chuckle s and laughs they make at the plants. : )
Happy New Year Everyone! ^_^
Hmmm, I've never heard of a Hibiscus that was illegal or for drug use. Some of them have leaves that look like illegal plants.(edited to say: Ha! Sounds like you know that fact very well Ella!) A lot of Hibiscus family plants are edible too. So, I've no clue???
RidesRed, Yes, the Indian Paintbrush is hemiparasitic. I think they usually grow on grass roots but will use some other things like Penstemons too.
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The only hibiscus that I know that should be illegal to grow is that one with the stickers all over it can't think of the name but the stickers can get into your pets and get down to their skin before you find them I grew some seeds out and was gonna trade one of them and ended up telling that person they couldn't have it and pitched them in the fire out back! I'll find the name...I think they are outlawed in some places...
Karen, My neighbors think I'm so funny because I like the weeds as much as the flowers and I don't think I'll every change :) The only thing to change my choice in flowers would be if I was so restricted which I'm not here, I do need to get some more weeds in the field if it wasn't so cold up there and the wind blows so much when we have the snow everytime I think about pitching seeds out for this one corner, it seems to take forever to walk up there and I have no meat on my bones to keep me warm lol
I was trying to collect some Jumpseed Persicaria virginiana seeds to put up there this year I've gotten a nice stand of them in the side yard out back but I need some in the field and the seeds are so hard for me to grab :( I may try and take some cuttings off of those for the field this year.
I have helicopters flying over every year because I grow so many tomato plants can't remember a year I haven't had since I've been starting from seeds I know it's been at least three years before I moved out here so it's been about 12 years at least, one time I looked out my kitchen window in town, I had tomato plants on my kitchen window sills and there was police up close looking at my plants LOL
Found this, Hibiscus trionum is on the noxious weed list in Washington and Colorado.
Lea , you talking about the October rose one that so pretty?? or the yellow one that has like okra pod on it ?? Had given neighbor a red texas star and he woke up one morning and plant was dug up and gone !! And yes Ella had the helicoper flying low here and police looking at them if came in yard shoot I told them would sell to them cheap only 5.00 dollars for whole pot.
Carolyn
Here is that hibiscus that I was telling you about but doesn't look like it is illegal anywhere but it shoud be, wish I could find where they were talking about it on the internet just don't have the time to look for it right now has anyone here grown this one?
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/59791/
Read the last comments about it, any one with pets running around should never grow this hibiscus it's very dangerous to your animals!