Texas Wildscape Native Seed Trade Thread #2

Got some more seeds from AJ today, TY. I'm getting more seeds than cards. What a treat.

Feeling better now and can't wait til I can get outside and start planting again.

Thanks

Dane

Josephine started a thread on planting your seeds......have questions post them there, so we can all learn and have it in one place.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1144543/

I received seeds from AJ today, too! Thanks!

Tonya

Now we need to find out what happens to all these seeds. I expect pics next spring.
C

Of course, we all should take pictures, although some seeds may not work out for one reason or another.

But we all learn from our mistakes....and learn that we can do all the right things,
but the results aren't promised. It is in the doing that we learn from each other.

That is right Sheila, nothing is for sure, but when the seeds sprout, what a miracle it is!!!

Whoo Hoo....more seeds today. Dennis and Jay...the eagle dropped off the envys...thanks so much!

Alright!! I got seeds today from AJ and Txagiegal!! I am so excited!! Now I need to plant another tray full of 4 inch pots.
AJ, are you Horntoad on cubits? I though that might be you.
Josephine.

Sorry, with all the excitement I forgot to say THANK YOU.

This message was edited Dec 11, 2010 5:07 PM

That's me. I prepared those tags for Ella's swap over there and didn't bother to reprint.

That's o.k., I see you are doing a good job with your site over there. Keep up the good work.
Josephine.

My seeds went out in the mail yesterday, as promised.

This has been a fun swap! I'm sorry that several who signed up to participate were not able to, after all. Maybe next year! Josephine, thanks for oraganizing it and thanks to all for the fun and seeds!

Now I'm headed over to the other thread for info about planting the Scarlett Buckeye...

Tonya

Well, today I received my seeds from ....

Nbgard
Careyana
Bananna18

Thank you ladies for you generous contribution and kind words.
I think this completes this wonderful exchange for me. I hope all the seeds work great and our collection of native plants will increase greatly, I am very excited.
Thank you everyone for your participation, it would be great if we could all get together at the spring swap to show and share the plants.
Your Friend,
Josephine.

I got seeds from Brandon and Careyana. I think this is all I requested.

Hope everyone got their seeds from me.

Looking forward to doing this again.

Thanks everybody

Dane

Glad to hear you got the seeds, Dane.
Brandon

Seeds from Careyana arrived yesterday!! Now if I can make myself get serious about planting some.

Thank you, Tonya...the Christmas card was a delight!

You're welcome Mary!

Got my seeds today from Tonya along with a pretty card. Thank you! I've got all the seeds I begged for and hope mine found their new homes as well. :)

I have all the seeds I requested, too. I can't remember if I mentioned that I got Sheila's. Thanks again to all for a great swap!

Tonya

Jay-Did you get yours?

Yes I did. Thanks Lisa

Good Luck! Some of those are growing in Penn. from seeds that I started here.

Got all I asked for also....they are great, it was a wonderful swap!!

I received some Wafer ash seeds from Realbirdlady today, thank you very much, I really need that tree for the Giant swallowtail butterflies.
Did you receive the Ironweed seeds? I hope so.
Josephine.

Yep, I'm set, thanks everyone!

For the wafer ash, yall may want to keep an eye out for the first year or so, and pick the caterpillars off. (They're the ones that look like bird poop.) They'll chow the little tree down to nubbies in no time. Once the tree gets established, it can lose some leaves and branches, no big deal.

It is pretty cool to watch the big butterflies wafting around to lay the eggs.

Yes it is, they sure are beautiful, thank you again.

re: wafer ash

Does its seed germinate easier than the prickly ash (aka Tickle Tongue tree)? The birds plant lots of those in fencelines all around us but never where we want them, and I've not found anyone who has successfully germinated the seed other than by putting it in their bird feeder and then the birds process and plant some around the feeder. We enjoy swallowtails every year and would like an ash tree in my new back yard butterfly garden.

Photo is GST butterfly cat enjoying prickly ash.

G

I received my wafer ash seeds today. I have received all of the seeds that I requested. Thanks, everyone!

I've never tried prickly ash, so I don't have any comparison. For the wafer ash, we fooled around last year with different ways to get the seed out of the husk, and every one made the germination rate worse, so um, just stick them in the ground and apparently the seeds know what they're supposed to do. Although we didn't try bird processing... I had maybe 25% germination year before last, but then I let a bunch of the little ones dry out and lost them. The ones that were direct sowed in the woods this past year (when it rained? remember rain?) I didn't count, but enough grew without any help from anybody to make nice young thickets.

Glenna, if mine germinate you will have one Wafer ash too.
Also the Prickly ash can be transplanted when they are small, you could try that.
Josephine.

Glenna...I remember you DH cut down all the Toothache trees along the fence line one year. Guess you are having him leave a couple now. I have one growing in the back but it is not but 2-3 foot tall. I al have a hop tree and if I can keep away from it it might be a foot tall next year.
Love the Swallwtail we get from those ugly cats.

Yes, I surely hope they do well. I also have a little wafer ash potted, about 8inches tall, these plants take time and patience but they are very much worth the effort.
I have one small Prickly ash at the Fielder garden and one at home they are both very small, but we do get swallowtails from them.
We all need to have these larval food trees to keep up the butterfly populations.

I received some wafer ash seeds from realbirdlady yesterday too!!

thanks everyone, it was great! I've received all seeds & now just need to plant and grow them!

Best wishes everyone!

Happy holidays to all ~ have a Merry Christmas and happy new year!!

Thank you Christi you have a Merry Christmas too.

Josephine... I am hoping to be able to participate in these seed swaps one day...next year I am hoping to start a Texas Native Garden in a little area of my front yard. I will onlt have a small garden but hoping to have a large impact!!!
We went on vacation in October & stopped at Monitcello where I bought some seeds... when I looked up today at what I got I realized that only a few were TX natives!! (Cardinal Flower & Texas Bird Pepper)... so i will be planting the other seeds in containers or the bigger garden!!
Look forward to attending the spring plant swap!!

I hope you will, it was and still is a lot of fun. We will have to see how many plants make it to fully grown.

Sorry I fizzled out. It's been a tough December.

No problem Stephanie, there will be other times, but you still can get some seeds from me if you like.