CLOSED: Plant Poaching Expedition Anyone?

All this rain has really spurred my plants on. I have lots of plants I need to thin out to make room for new plants. So I'm offering a "plant poaching expedition" thru my gardens if anyone is going to be in the area in the near future.

I'm in Jonesboro, Ark., about an hour north of Memphis. If you'll be in the area or driving thru the area and would like to stop by and take some of my excess plants, I'd love to have you. I have a few different mints I can spare as well as lemon balm, possibly some daylilies and irises, lost of perennials, groundcovers, etc. My entire yard is a botanical garden and I grow anything and everything that interests me. What I have in abundance, I'm happy to share.

For special or more unusual plants, I'd do some trading. I need some exotic trees and shrubs. But I'd also be happy with homemade canned salsa, garden surplus, garden ornaments or just anything I could use. I don't mind if the trade is lopsided, so don't worry about that.

I love meeting other gardeners and I love infecting new gardeners with the desire to grow plants they don't normally see. So come on out and see if you can find something here you just have to have. No one leaves my gardens empty-handed. LOL

NancyAnn

Well golly that's nice of you!
Wish I could hop in the car.....

You better hurry, Critter. Soon it will be 100 degrees here. It's already 87 today! In March! Sure wish you could come. I'd load you up! LOL

Beautiful picture, wish I were closer. I know what you mean by infecting people with a love of gardening. ;)

I wish you were closer too. It's really hard to find real gardeners around here. Even most of the Master Gardeners don't seem to be into gardening. Go figure...

I am giving a bunch of plants to a US veteran. He's so excited; his wife said he's like a kid who's learned he's going to the candy store. LOL

Good!

BEAUTIFUL!! When I moved I left behind my flower garden and have had a rough time starting over!! The existing flower beds are so overrun with grass I despair of ever getting this place up and going!!

Hi Pat,

You can do it. Just do one bed at a time. My whole yard was bermuda when I began. And the soil was all red clay. I've spent 12 yrs killing ALL the bermuda and planting what I want. Right now, it's all overrun with dandelions which are 2 ft tall. I don't knwo where all the dandys came from but they're getting on my nerves!

Just start somewhere today and work a small area. You may have to dig out all the good plants and use roundup to kill all that nasty grass. I know a lot of people won't use roundup, but if you're impatient, like I am, and have a lot to do, roundup can be your best friend. Once the grass is killed, you can replant your plants and add new plants.

I'd love to send you a box of perennials when you're ready for them...as a housewarming present. So when you have a place for a few sun lovers (my yard is mostly sun), let me know what kind of plants you're interested in and send me your address.

NancyAnn

The idea of "plant poaching" is just my speed. Unfortunately, I'm nowhere near AR, neither in my leaving behind house nor my moving to temporarily house. I have plenty of perennials I'm leaving behind for my daughter to admire (maybe even mow the lawn once or twice). We are moving into a rental house and we have signed a lease saying we will maintain the lawn, which I THINK means we will water twice a week and mow. In 2-3 years we are coming back, so the house and garden (so-called) will still be there when we get back. I was planning on a completely container garden, which works in New England but I think will fry in my tiny, hot, sunny patio.

I don't know why I posted here--doesn't really have anything to do with the thread. Never mind. ^_^

I'll keep that in mind Butterfly. That is one of the reasons it's hard to leave behind a garden. "I got this one from..." "I traded my ... for this from ..." and only one of day lilies survived the trip, and very few of my pink oriental liles. Oh well!!

I think you are right, Round Up on on the one "flowerbed" would be the easiest. Won't be the first time I lifted what I wanted and did mass kill on everything else! Sometimes there is not much choice!

I told my brother one day that if I ever leave this place, I'll be digging all my plants to take with me. He said it would take two 18 wheelers to haul all of this out of here...but I'm great at packing and I think I could squeeze them all into one...well, maybe...if I'll quit adding more and more! LOL

Pat, this fall, I MUST divide some of my daylilies, so remind me about the end of summer to send you a box of plants...if you're not picky about names and colors. I wish you lived closer so you could just come over and dig. A friend here in AR came over Wed and we loaded up her car. I even threw in a couple of wicker chairs and a fountain and garden decor I didn't want anymore. My tastes keep changing and I get bored with what I have and must have something different. One day, I'll get this place just like I want it...and then I'll load it all in a big truck and move it to my "new" home. LOL

I use roundup only when I have to for thorny or especially taprooted stubborn ones. My method of choice with grass is just to cover it with cardboard or paper and put some Scott's topsoil on top. The grass will decay and die (dandelions, too) and the paper products will disintegrate rather quickly, especially if you toss in a few earthworms, who'll have so much to eat they'll multiply like nuts.

That's what I did in the beginning, Critter. But now, time is of the essence and cost is a factor too. I also can't elevate some of my beds anymore. But I have been fortunate in being able to kill all the bermuda. If some begins to creep back in, I zap it quickly with Roundup.

But most of my gardens I created with cardboard and newspaper. Our recycling center gave me all I wanted. And I got mulch for free from local tree trimmers. That's how I converted my red clay to black gold. And people are always wanting to "poach" my earthworms! LOL

YEARS ago, 3 homes ago, I had a master garden thin her Day Lilies and I created a whole new flowerbed. I went to work one day, announced I was looking for day lilies if anyone knew someone thinning their's out and by that weekend I had all the day lilies the trunk of car could handle!!! I used my cement mold and created a ground level water bath. She set it in her flower beds for the "wild life" and her pets to drink from.

I love ALL the day lilies and color & names NOT important so I would LOVE to take you up on that offer Butterfly!

Just wanted to say I wish I was closer as I would bring my Goober to get some of your beautiful plants! We have just moved twice this year and I have been transplanting my whole garden to the new permanent home. I would love to make s long edging to my driveway with daylilies.
Sorry if this is misstyped I am using my cell to type this, and have big clumbsy fingers.

Anyway love your garden, it is wonderful!!!!!

Thanks, Mud-elf. I don't know how you can type on the tiny keyboard of a cell phone. I hate texting! I try to email whenever possible. I have a huge keyboard. It's not even a regular one; mine is the split wave ergonomic, massive one to accommodate my big hands. So I completely sympathize with trying to type on a tiny cell phone.

Congratulations on the new permanent home. Doesn't it feel great to be able to put down roots now? I've lived here for over 20 years and the thought of leaving it just doesn't appeal to me. I'm settled in. I'm glad you could take your plants with you when you moved. My plants are old friends and I'd miss them if I couldn't take them. I don't even bother with tropicals anymore because they die forever during winter. And then I miss them. My perennials are old friends who keep coming back for a long visit. LOL

Yep, LOVE perennials... and perennials that are GIFTS to me are TWICE as special! Everytime I see the plant I think of my friends!

Same here,,I do not have all my plants yet, however I am lucky in that the guy who bought my old place told me to take my time getting my plants, so eventually I will have them all. I donot have many daylilies yet and almost no named ones,, I will be working on that in the future, my driveway is about 200 feet long and up a slight hill. So I am thinking daylilies and iris are the way to go, we have 2.4acres of land to play with!!!

I only have internet on my phone for now..we are living in a very rural area of Alabama... So it is hard to get online much,,sigh

Irises and daylilies are great for the driveway, but don't forget to add bloomers with a different bloom time too. Sedums would be great mixed in there, especially the fall blooming ones. And you might add some hibiscus too. They generally start blooming before the daylilies are finished. Of course a rose bush here and there would be awesome too. I just bought a beautiful Peach Knockout rose and I LOVE it. It's everblooming until a hard freeze gets it, which means it will bloom up into Dec most years.

Kris, maybe we could do some trading this fall. I will need to thin my irises and daylilies by then, and I might be able to share some sedums too.

Great. I will d" mail you my info.

What time of the year is best to transplant roses ? I have 4 to 5 kinds at the old house.. one is a very pretty Lady Banks thornless yellow rose. I think the others are knockout roses to. Need to find picturs of them.


We donot have internet here try....sigh..