Jan23 I have a couple more of the red double Knockout Roses like you got at swap. Need another?
ssgardener Just visited the nursery here where I found the sedums for you this spring. They have the following carex sedge varieties for sale: "Evergold", 'Ice Dance' and 'Palm oehme' Would you like me to buy some for you? Also, you are wanting Sweet Flag and and Donnerville has 'loads' of acorus. They are the same plant, so she would be a good source. I have a small asparagus fern for you and an ostrich fern.
donnerville I think I have a blue hosta for you.
Fall Swap at Sallys- DISCUSSION about your haves and wants
Whoever has the 6 Blueberry pots--I would like to take one for my daughter.
She loves Blueberries! Will they grow in the pots--or have to be planted in the garden?
How old are they? Making berries?
Thank you. Let me know. please....Gita
edited to say...
Greenthumb said one needs two to get fruit. So--I would need a couple Blueberries....
IF they are not all spoken for yet....
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coleup - The tree you gave me at Holly's is doing fine, but I have been unable to ID it despite many efforts including direct consultation with Viburnum Valley, the go-to tree person on the Plant ID forum. As to the Deutzia, do you know the species? I know some are happy in part sun but whant to make sure we can give yours a good home.
Edited to add: We would be happy to grow blueberries, which Pat loves. As I recall, two are needed for pollenation. Thanks
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Thanks, coleup!
Donnerville, I think I asked for your acorus further up in this post. I'll take as many as you're interested in digging up.
Coelup, I'm in the process of geting new fencing put in. I'm so confused about what needs to be dug up and moved before the workers come in and rip up the existing chain link fence. Once the new fence is put in, I'm going to have 30 feet x 3 feet of new gardening space that is currently nothing but ivy and weeds. I don't even know where to begin with that space.
I recently got a good deal on a couple of carex plants ($1.50 each!), so I'm waiting to see how they look in the new spot before I make my final decision. Thank you so much for looking out for me! That Evergold looks gorgeous in pictures.
Coleup, no thank you on the rose. Thank you for thinking of me.
I am sooo looking forward to getting together at Sally's with everyone. It will be here before we know it.
Greenthumb - Thanks for all your work in trying to id those understory trees I inherited along with the Oregon Vine Maples! The deutzia is 'old fashioned' in that it comes from a 30 yr old bush I saved from demolition. I'm going to say Slender Deutzia gracillis. Does well for me in partial to mostly shade and should get enough sun to bloom well before big trees leaf out in my woodsy yard. My big one pictured is 7x7. In my experience they are like their relatives hydrangeas and like water when they want it or will droop. The one I have has benn growing in a container for years and wants/needs to be liberated! The flowers have a slight fragrance to them and bloom just as the japanese maples leaf out. The arching stems are nice. The rest of the year it is unremarkable. (Like forsythia but with more substantial and deeper green leaves. They can be cut back or old canes removed for renewal. I'll bring you one and then you can trial and rec to others who may want to try! OK?
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/plant-finder/plant-details/kc/v560/deutzia-gracilis.aspx
Greenthumb (and others) - I also have some sedum 'ogon' also known as golden Japanese Woodland sedum to share. This sedum has done well for me and prefers woodsy conditions rather than full sun also, likes more water than reg sedums. Want to tuck some around your new water feature rocks?
http://www.plantdelights.com/Sedum-makinoi-Ogon-Gold-Japanese-Woodland-Sedum/productinfo/8756/
Here it is fringing my 'flamingo' coleus. I think ssgardener gave me my start and I bought another pot.
Added to my Have List.
Have mercy....don't check in for a couple of days and we've got Figs gone Wild among other things.
FIrst and foremost a belated happy birthday to Pippi and to Joyanna!!!
Ummmm Gita - when you're done with the existing FIG orders...might I do some begging as well? I'm going to partake in some squatter's 'rights' between my back fence the the wooded tree line up the hill. Same as I did with a few agaves. I look at it as helping the erosion issue on the hill behind my strip of townhouses. Gita - I'm more then happy to wait until spring...please do what is easiest for you. I would like one from the very sweet fig tree and one from the 'bush' - please and thank you.
Jill - remind me please what you wanted from Ikea and how many.
coleup - was the ensete banana the one I'd asked for before? My brain goes MIA - it's very sad, I tell you.
lol Chantell, I know whereof you speak re MIA brains! You have requested a Dwarf Cavandish banana pup from ssgardener. Do you want to grow this outside in the ground? The ensete I have is not winter hardy here but is a good size and candidate to winterover as a 'house plant' this year and then set out in warm spring it should reach 6 or more feet. lmk
coleup---
Please do not mind--but the pictures you post on the Thread are no bigger than the Thumbnails
when the Post is opened.
Could you look into making them a bit bigger so we all can see your beautiful garden shots better???
A while ago--I changed my ISO setting on my camera to a "5". Have not had any problems
with them loading and the enlarged picture is plenty big to see every detail.
Even when I post 5 pictures--they now go in a blink of an eye with the new format.
Chantelle----You got it!!! I have some stuck in pots already--as spares.....
Just mind you all--these are cuttings taken just this week. I think in 3 weeks, by the Swap time--they should all pass
the tug test. Maybe even have new leaves growing?
Also--I KNOW I read this somewhere---since Figs are, kind of, borderline hardy around here--it said to
keep the newly rooted Fig plants in the house or G-H the first winter. Can anyone substantiate this????
I have had so many requests for Fig starts--that yesterday I was all over my neighbor's yard taking more
cuttings and potting them in 1Qt. perennial pots. Making a list--checking it twice....:o)
I can always do this any time I need more cuttings- even though spring is supposed to be best.
Nothing wrong with the ones I have done now!
Most of the pots will have the top cutting as well as the stem I cut off below the cutting--stuck into the pot as well.
like---Two for One! Ficus is really a "garbage plant" as far as propagation goes. SOOO many plants in this class....
Today, I went to all 3 of Olga's Fig plants and picked plates full of ripe figs. Ate the ones that were oozy ripe! YUMMM..
Olga cannot do all this due to health problems--so I "garden" in some of her beds as well--and pick the ripe figs for her.
I have to say that the "Bush" figs were almost as sweet as the BIG tree's--just lacked that Honey sweetness.....
Also--the "Bush" figs are round--whereas the Fig plant under the house overhang --the figs are quite lg.deep smoky purple
And just moderately sweet.
Here is the kicker----NONE of her kids or G-Kids like to eat the figs. There is ONE Nephew that does.
Olga has made amazing Fig preserves in the past---but now that she is a widow--the "oomph" has left her.
It has ONLY been 2 years!
If all goes well--and if all the figs are still ripening (should be) by the Swap time--I plan to bring each and every one of you that
has asked for any fig cuttings one each fig to taste of the ones you asked for. Nice of me--NO?
Chantelle--Do you have any of the August Lily Hosta? (see pic.) This divinely fragrant plant???
I have a small one growing, and in bloom, in a bed that is going to be demolished. Gonna dig it up and pot it up for you.
IF you want it.....wink...wink....
Coleup----
LOVE...LOVE the color of that purple Coleus!!!! Hmmmm--could you start me a cutting???
I am thinking od starting SSgardener a good sized pot of "Alabama Sunset" Coleus, bc she loves it so!
I have plenty to take cuttings from. Do you want me to--SS????
OK! "Nuff for one Post----Geez! I can get sooo long-winded!!!
gITA
Coleup, 'Chickasaw' is doing great in a big pot and will probably go into the ground this fall. I thought spring would be the best time for cuttings from it... or should I try dormant cuttings in fall? If I don't get cuttings to take in spring, I can try air-layering (I'm thinking press 'n seal and moisture crystals would work well). How did you start the one I have?
I've got a few coleus cuttings rooting now & will take more in time for the swap... I also "scored" a leggy pot of red heartleaf philodendron from the clearance table at DPF this afternoon (Joyanna just had to go see Pogo the Parrot when we were out that way), so I'll have cuttings of that as well as of a white & green pothos whose name escapes me at present (one of the newer brighter ones).
The philo is a noid but looks like one I've seen that I think was called 'red velvet'... similar to this photo from PF: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/175492/
Or--maybe "Satin"......there is a Satin Philo...
I will do a continuation thread tonight
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...I guess I will catch that tomorrow.................................
New part two for more discussion
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1276818/
oops no picture oh well...
Critter, on the crepe myrtles...
I worked for several years with a small local grower of tropicals, tender perennials, water plants and other interesting plants which we distributed for sale to area Home Depots.
Our stock plants were about the size of yours and were wintered over in a cold greenhouse. When they broke dormancy and had new growth. we would take cuttings to stick, keep under our intermitant misting system and then pot up in 6" pots for sale in mid May-June as they began to bloom. Any leftovers were up potted to 3 gal to become next years stock plants. We also took cuttings later toward end of season and kept as cuttings in heated green house run cool which were potted up to 6" and then became our 3 gal sellers when they started to bloom a bit earlier than if grown outside or those in cold green house (unless we heated it to speed things along)
They are quite easy from semi-hardwood stem cuttings even taken now. Trick is keeping cuttings from drying out, but there are many ways to keep them moist.. If I were you I would take a few now, just to get a feel for them as you'll be waiting forever for them to break dormancy in the Spring. What takes will need some winter protection as they won't be ready to plant out til they have had a chance to put on some growth (cold frame?) Mama plant spent winter in a pile of shredded oak leaves with all my others stuff.
So, nix on dormant cuttings air layering and all that other trouble!
Nope, I think the one I have available is a pothos not a philo... and it's not 'Satin'; I've had that one and this one is multi-tonal variegated, not silver-splotched toward the middle of the leaf. I'll find the name...
Thanks for the info, Coleup, I'll see what "takes!"
and now, I'm going over to the new thread too!
The Idea of sharing things other than plants is music to my ears..Last year one of the gals that I met at the first plant swap that I attended in Burtonsville, posted that she had lots of nursery pots that she had saved and if anybody wanted or needed them, they were FREE and I guess I must have been the only taker for them. She emailed me and asked what sizes I was interest in..which I told her and she sat them out by her garage door while she was at work with my username on them. That felt like Christmas Morning to me! I hope to cut up some mini blind plant ID markers and bring them along..I could use larger pots..like you'd buy a good size azalea in. Is that 2 or 3 gal size? Sometimes the pots will have the size on the side, like PW pots 2.90 qts. I have enough of that size but could use something larger..I tried to look under the bottom for sizes..impossible to read on some of them.
I have plenty of the 4 in. nursery pots..I plan to order some 3 in. size in the winter to prepare for next Spring swap for starting cuttings in. Always good to have some extra trash bags along in case somebody has any FREEBIE Pots to give away or a cardboard box..
If anybody has an extra thrift store mini blind or two, I'm about out (I can cut my own... I use a lot of them!). I almost bought a new one the other day... cheap, but I still cringed at the idea of cutting up a "working" one.
edited to add, I'd be happy to pay for a used mini blind if anybody has one (whether you scrounged it or bought it for a couple bucks). I think new ones started at maybe $4 at WM... still cheaper than buying "official" plant markers! I know I could use plastic spoons etc... but the mini blind markers work really well for me as ones to bury in the ground with the plant, preserving its ID if the above-ground metal marker is lost or moved. I don't always manage to do that, but I do try, especially for named daylilies or others I know I'll want to divide & share down the road.
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Ahem
PART TWO DISCUSSION
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1276818/
pleeze
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Cuz once we start there we all need to get there