CLOSED: FREE FOR PICKUP - NO SASEs

I'm in Jonesboro, Ark (NE Ark) about an hour's drive from Memphis, TN, about 2.5 hours from Little Rock, and about 45 minutes from Cardwell, MO. I'm easy to find, right off our interstate. I'm cleaning out my gardens and have a few things that must go. I've freecycled what I can and am offering here too.

PLEASE NOTE: I do not have time to dig, pack and ship. I'm working hard this week while it's cooler (if you can call 90 degrees cool) to get as much done as I can. I will not spend my time packing SASEs and running to the post office. I'm going to spend every waking moment in my gardens while temps are 10-15 degrees cooler than they have been.

If you can pick up and dig, you can have these things:

Wisteria cuttings (cut today - the dang thing was eating my patio!) - so you'd have to come in a day or two for these
Passiflora Incarnata - passion flower, maypops
Purple Obedient Plant
Pink Showy Evening Primrose
Creeping Jenny
Clerodendrum Bungeii
Silver Mint - I think some has come back up where I tried to remove it
Spearmint
Limelight Artemisia
Lemon Balm
Variegated Vinca Major
Variegated Asian Jasmine (looks a lot like a variegated vinca minor, but slightly different)
Blue Spiderwort
Parrot's feather for your pond or boggy area
Blue Louisiana Iris - Iris Hexagona
Cuttings from Sweet Autumn Clematis
Cuttings from Chinese Fringe Flower (Loropetalum)
Cuttings from Roses
Cuttings from other things I'm sure
Oak tree seedlings that sprout up everywhere
Orange trumpet vine
Four Oclock bushes
Perennial blue Ageratum
Hollyhock seeds - assorted colors, ready to pick from the plants now
Kwanso Daylilies - the triple orange ditch lilies with lots of petals

I don't know what else. I'm sure there are more plants in my way. I'm hauling this stuff to the burn pile as I pull it, so if you want to come over for a "plant poaching expedition", let me know. You'll have to come within the next week or so because I'm working hard to remove it all as I redesign my beds. If you want all this stuff and whatever else I come up with, you'd probably have a carload.

I don't need anything in exchange. But if you have some empty nursery pots sitting around that you don't need or some old metal mini blinds I can use for plant markers, I'd love to have 'em. I could also use some thick bamboo stalks (to build the frame for the roof of my tiki bar) if you happen to have any.

When coming to pick up, please bring bags, pots, buckets, boxes, soil, markers, paper towels and whatever else you'll need to transport your goodies. I have garden gloves, trowels, nippers, and heavy duty shovels you can use while you're here. I even have a beach umbrella you can carry around the yard as you work, as my yard is full sun.

I'll make us some lemonade and cut up some fruit and veggies for us to snack on. So come on out. Bring a friend or two. There are enough plants for several people. What's left behind will end up on the burn pile.

If interested in doing some "plant poaching," let me know when you would like to come out.

NancyAnn

Oh how I wish I could be there... I started reading this post outloud (trying to top the kids), and when they heard my voice get excited, they KNEW I was reading about plants!! *LOL* My 10 year old daughter told me "Lets go get them"...when I told her you weren't even close to home, she said "We can drive!" *LOL* Smart 10 year old!!!

me too wow what a selection.

I saw on the news yesterday that they now have an air-car. It's a car that flies! So y'all go buy one and fly yourselves over! When you fly over a large yard with no grass and specks of color all over the yard with only mulched trails between them, drop on in. You can land in the vacant lot next door (which may not be vacant too much longer if I keep acquiring plants!).

Wish y'all lived closer. I think we all have similar climates and all this stuff would grow well for y'all.

you know i saw that thing too. it looked cool. wonder what the gas mileage is on it. hehe wonder if any better then a regular car. hehe

your right i would love to have some and know they would be happy here.

This message was edited Jun 30, 2010 9:34 PM

Wonder if you would have to get a pilots license?

I would imagine so. I heard them say that one of the reasons for the car was to get people out of traffic jams--like if there's an accident on a CA freeway and traffic gets backed up for miles. Supposedly you can convert to the plane and lift the car out of traffic and fly over it. Kinda makes you think of the Jetsons, huh? Remember when they would do those video conferences and that was science fiction? And now it's an everyday thing. Don't you just love living in this technological age?

Before ya know it..everyone will be above the tree lines...and the freeways will be wide open!

There'll be traffic jams and fender benders in the sky then, and folks will be falling out of the sky. YIKES! Don't fall on me, the lonely little mini-van on the freeway loaded with plants and a big white hairy dog.

I'll still be on the freeway as well so you won't be alone!

Nancy Ann ... what kind of big white dog do you have?? Just curious..I have a Great Pyrenees and usually refer to him that way!

I need one of those flying cars.... I put on about 40K miles a year and that flying car would sure come in handy! Of course, I would NOT want to have mechanical problems while in the air!!

Genna

Yes, you'd definitely have to have the money for regular maintenance if you're going to fly around. Breaking down on the highway is a lot different from falling out of the sky! (Don't fall on me!!)

I'm so glad I won't be alone on the highway. Irisluvr, when you see my old van broken down on the desserted highway, will you stop and pick me up, along with my big hairy beast?

Gen, I have a smaller pyrenees--a Samoyed. He looks much like a Pyrenees but doesn't get quite as big. He's lost some weight so now he's "only" 82 lbs. He's 12 yrs old now and still tries to keep up with me. Arthritis slows him down a bit, but if he can get up, he'll go anywhere I lead. A Pyrenees is my 2nd choice in breeds. When Sam passes on, I'll either get another Samoyed or look for a Pyrenees. I just love big hairy beasts.

aw cute dog nope no flying very high for me still on ground with my plants. shoot it will be safer on ground if everyone in the air.

oh my teens in the air nope staying on the ground.

It's too bad no one is headed this way today. I'm ripping out some extra Prince's Feathers (Amaranthus Celosia Plumosa) and some Ozark Beauty strawberries that I don't have room for. Yesterday, I cut back a Sweet Autumn Clematis and filled a wheelbarrow with what I cut off. Today I'll also rip out some obedient plant that has covered a big area. Too bad none of you live close enough. There aren't many serious gardeners in my city. So I'm afraid I compost a lot of plants someone might think is worthy.

I listed extra plants on freecycle two days ago. 7 people responded and wanted them.
Not one has shown up for them
Pam.

That's how they do on Freecycle. I keep a list of the no-shows and don't even respond to additional emails from them. Most people around here are not serious gardeners. They want a big, well established bush or clump of daylilies to brighten a spot, but they don't want a little of everything--too much work to dig it or plant it.

I usually tell them they have to dig it if they want it for free. One lady responded that she'd be happy to take all I wanted to give her if I'd bag them up and sit them in the driveway. I've even offered pick-it-yourself produce and had someone ask me if I would pick it and deliver it to them because they didn't have transportation. Uhhhh, NO! I can pick it and deliver it to my vet, my friends, family, and other important people in my life.

My rule is, if you want it, you dig it. But most of the time I've already dug a bunch of it as I was working in the garden. So any extra stuff they want, they dig. I gave a carload of plants to a friend who lives about an hour away. She is having financial problems and was going to pot it all up and sell it at the Farmer's Market there. I wish she'd come back and dig more. She dug for about 4 hours and you can't tell anything is missing. LOL

I tossed three wheelbarrows of stuff on the burn pile yesterday. More will go there today. Some things I'll transplant of course. But some of my plants have not been divided in years and have run amuck. Of course some plants just no longer thrill me so they must go too. You know how that is since you like the more unusual plants too.

I guess she'd want you to shuck, silk, cut, blanch, and bag the corn or shell the peas too, huh ButterflyChasher?

A few years back, a friend of a friend needed firewood badly to heat his house. We had about a cord here and had switched to gas heat. The guy refused it because it wasn't split, and we wouldn't bring it to his house. He NEEDED it for heat!
Pam

woodthrush...guess there's a difference between NEED and WANT!

She probably would Angedawn. There are some lazy people who feel entitled out there. Free isn't good enough anymore. It has to be free and be effortless for the receiver too.

Once in a while you run across some really wonderful people though. We freecycled a very old, ugly, dirty gas range that we took out of a rent house a couple of years ago. This very polite guy asked for it since theirs was broken. He drove about 40 miles to get it and was so happy! This thing was awful! Ugly, gunk stuck to it. I couldn't believe he wanted it. It worked fine and he said cleaning it wouldn't be a problem. They needed something to cook on and couldn't afford a new one. So he took it.

He emailed me several times over the next few months to thank me so much for the oven. He cleaned it as soon he got home and installed it. And his made had made them many wonderful meals on it. About every two or three months, for a year or so, he emailed me again a wonderful thank you. So of course, if I ever offer something again that he wants, he has dibbs on it.

Yeah, some people are truly THANKFUL, while others are not! I sure prefer to help the thankful ones myself, and I sure wish it wasn't 4 hrs to Jonesboro! But then I am tied up with a major project on a rent house this weekend anyway!

Years ago when I was still living at home, we were over run with strawberries! Really nice, sweet berries. We froze them and made strawberry preserves, etc..... until we didn't have any more room. So we called several neighbors and friends and told them to come help themselves. NO ONE came.... they all wanted them PICKED! I was just a teenager - but I was in shock! And this was a rural community where most people were used to working!! My parents were both unable to work for my entire jr high and high school years and believe me, I would have GLADLY picked whatever anyone was willing to share with us because money was so short. But I could pick with the best of them - everything except butterbeans - and I could pick them too but I was REALLY slow at it.

Nancy Ann, I agree wholeheartedly with you - if I am going to be the one to pick them (and clean whatever) then I am going to give it to who I want to! Someone who has helped me in some manner or appreciates things!

AND the guy who wouldn't come get the firewood - I won't even SAY what I am thinking!!!

Genna

These days, beggars ARE choosy!

I ran another ad on Craigslist for the free plants and have had lots of responses. I've picked three couples to take them. One couple came yesterday, just moved back to Jboro after living in Dallas for years. Turns out I graduated with the lady's brother. She and her husband bought 30 acres outside of town and are landscaping it. They brought me some empty nursery pots and hauled a bunch of plants. She wants to bring a friend of hers by sometime to see my gardens. They're such a mess right now with me rearranging everything into themed "rooms", but she thought it was wonderful.

The other two couples are supposed to come today, so we'll see...After today, everything that is left will just be composted.

Now I've got to get out to the gardens. I'm late getting out there this morning and I bet the butterflies have started without me!

Plants are all gone. I spent the last two days marking plants and leading people thru my gardens to dig up some goodies. Now I have a nice big bare area where I'll put in a pond, a lover's bench and lots of new plants. Would have done that today, but I spent the day with a brother and sister I don't see very often, as well as my dad and stepmom. I have to say, I rather enjoyed sitting in the AC and not getting dirty, hot, and sweaty for a change. LOL

Gotta love craigs list .. I advertised my canna bed free for the taking .. ad went in at 10am and the whole bed was cleared by 1pm.