Sorry Buttoneer can't help with that, but I do have some that I got at one of the first plant swaps I went to that were grown from seeds. They were tiny little plants when I first got them and now they are beautiful.
Ric and I did a Pond Tour yesterday and I put up a thread with the pictures over in the Water Garden Forum. If anyone you like to see them.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1327083/
Neck of the Woods CHAT Summer 2013 Part 2
Just beautiful, Holly! Looks like it was such a lovely trip.
Buttoneer--
Tiger Lily "seeds" are NOT really seeds that are produced from the blooms.
The "seeds" are in the axils of where the leaves join the stem.
They look like small, black berries...and are called "bulbils"...
Usually--there are a lot of them--up and down the stem.
One per axil. Also--these 'ripen" (get bigger) from the bottom up.
They just SIT there--and as soon as you touch one--it rolls off to the ground.
IF you still have any on the stems, get a small bowl and hold it under each "bulbil"
and roll it into the bowl.
Usually--these start "ripening" before the blooms ever open up.
Hope you have not missed it...
What I do--is just prepare a small W-Box of soil, and scatter the bulbils
over the top, pushing each one about 1/2" deep with my finger.
Make sure they are all well into the soil. Cover with a alayer of dried leaves
and put it up against a S. house wall where the sun will keep it warm.
If you like--you can pile more leaves over it for the winter...Leave it outside!
By mid spring--remove the leaves--and you should have 2" sprouts
from the "bulbils"...They are ON THEIR WAY!!!
To grow them on--I prick each one out and plant it in a cell pack--or in
very small pots (bath cups?). They will grow a bit taller ans be ready
to transplant in slightly bigger pots (2"+) and let them continue growing.
That is about what Holly got from me 3-4 years ago.
This is what you should have after the winter is over.
This was taken in April of 2011. Already transplanted into small pots. +
I DO NOT know, exactly, how many years it takes until they bloom. Sorry!
Holly--are yours blooming? How long did it take?
Gita
Yes, they are blooming. I am not sure they definitely did bloom last year but I am not sure if that was the first year of bloom.
I knew about the bulbils but Georgia Vines advertise them as seeds. Whevefr they are, I ordered 20. The plant had just started blooming but I saw no bulbils om the plant.
Ya gotta remember this is a "Michigan" Lily, NOT a tigerlily. and the leaves are around the stem (see pictures) NOT the same as the tiger lily (see pictures). I will email Georgia Vines & see if these Michigans produce bulbils or seeds.
Coleup, The plant, who's name escapes me at the moment, I got from you @ Sally's, well this lady on the pond tour had a number of them. She had mostly shade gardens and had @ least 1 in direct sun, so it must be pretty tolerant of conditions. She said she had gotten it from her father, and called it a bear paw and she has propagated it by division.
Ric. I think you mean Acanthus ' summer beauty' aka 'Bears Britches'
I think it would be spectacular with some elevated over water and rocks for instance. Kinda in its element. (Yep, propagation by division and root division. Happy, you, and Greenthumb have one.
How's yours doing Happy? Did you find a spot for it?
Thanks Coleup, All I could remember was that it started with an A and was something like Aruncus. I wasn't too far off. I'll put it in my file so I won't forget.
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Coleup: My "Summer Beauty" is doing great, but it is still in its pot. I've focused all my energy on my awful front hill this summer. I know just where the "Summer Beauty" is going, but that garden bed has been ignored!
Electric tennis racket for swating carpenter bees! Ha ha - that's a new one. Now where does one buy something like that??
My grass is dying from the extreme heat, and a lot of my plants are not doing too well either. This particular coleus is doing well though. It is 'alabama sunset'.
i LUV Alabama sunset,; have grown that
My faorite too--such gright colors--in the heat or no heat.
One I will always propagate....Gita
Electric tennis racket!?!? How in the world could a tennis racket need or use electricity!?!? Haahahahaaaa, that is too funny!
... oh yeah, and GORGEOUS Coleus!! =)
Alabama Sunset coleus is also known as "Texas Parking Lot" Tells ya right there how heat tolerant it is!
yes siree electric tennis racquet bug zapper
http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/koolatron-electronic-racket-zapper-3-pack/ID=prod3447244-product?SL_ClientGroup=1
SS The tennos rackets are battery operated & you can get them cheaply at Harbor Freight. And they DO work.
This message was edited Jul 31, 2013 8:30 PM
Buttoneer---
You never D-mailed me your address so I could send you the
Frans Hals bulbils.....
By now--you will, probably be able to get this year's "seeds"
as the pods are getting ripe and starting to split.
Seed collecting has already started here.....Gita
Heeheeee, ok NOW I get it... it's a bug zapper!! I just had to check it out in action on Utube... LOL LOL!!!!!!! That thing looks like FUN!!
This message was edited Aug 5, 2013 8:35 PM
Judy you might want to move your address to a Dmail.
Buttoneer---
While i am sending you something---please check out my
Trade List of seeds and see if there is anything else you want.
The seed list is not too updated --as you have always been to
our seed Swap. Same old....Same old.....some old...
Will get the Frans Hals bulbils out to you soon. Will tell you when they
are on their way...
You may want to, shallowly, plant them all in a big pot and then
bury the pot somewhere warm and protected. Throw some leaves over it .
They should have sprouted by spring. Then--maybe 3 years to bloom!
At least--that is what i do with my Tiger Lilies....
I could dig up one clump of the Frans Hals and send you some roots
for postage--if you like --instead...Saves a couple years waiting for bloom.
Let me know before I send out anything.....Gita
I've just returned from a weekend trip from NYC where DH and I visited a few botanical sites. Have you all heard of the HIgh Line in Manhattan? It's an old abandoned elevated railway that became overgrown with plants and then turned into a linear park -- an aerial greenway.
I also visited the Cloisters in Washington Heights, where they had medieval herb/medicine gardens. I have lots of pictures I need to get through but will post a few here!
I'd love to see them, ssg.
Some pics of High Line plants and the surrounding buildings.
Portions of the high line had water and "beach" themes.
Oops lets try that again.
That's such a creative use of space! The Joe Pye weed is stunning. I wish it weren't so seedy.
The medieval garden at Cloisters was great fun, although DH was dying of boredom at this point.
Thanks for those pics. I have heard of the Highline but never seen close up pics of it. I love the way those pavers have the planted groves. So cool
WOWW, those are some great shots Ss!!! The Highline pics are really cool, love how the plants grow into the "cracks" of the patio.
OK, one day I am going to learn how to Espalier like that! =)
Happy, they had massive baptisia, even bigger than the ones we saw at the park in VA.
At the Cloisters, they had plants that were used in dyeing fabric. They have a gorgeous unicorn tapestry that was dyed using only 3 plants that I'd never heard of. One of them is called madder, which was the red dye. The plants are pictured here, I think.
Sorry some of my pics are sideways, but I don't know how to fix that on my phone. That espalier was so impressive! I think that's the one with a ripe pear fruit hanging on the corner. Oh, that climbing vine that's really tall? That's hops!
Their labeling looks great! It is so much more satisfying to tour a garden where the plants are labeled and you aren't left scratching your head!
ssg, I've put a bunch of baptisia plants on my awful front hill -- that may have been a mistake, given how large they get! I don't want them to be overbearing! At this point, they are virtually invisible so it is not an issue yet.
wow, SSG, that's really cool--it's amazing what they've done with the High Line, and I love the Cloisters gardens--such cool things--even hops!! :-)
I thought about all of you folks when I was at the gardens. DH was very patient, but so very bored with it all. LOL
Btw, the High Line is also worth it if you're a fan of architecture. The fifth picture of that first set shows a Frank Gehry building which is just gorgeous (to my untrained, amateur eye).
Happy, I think your baptisia may be okay. Since they're planted on a slope, they might not get as big as some of the babied ones in botanical gardens. I think they're gorgeous even when not in bloom.
The medieval gardens were separated into uses -- medicinal, arts, cooking, brewing, "spells." My favorites were the poisonous plants in the "spells" section. :)
Btw, this is the tapestry where they only used 3 plants listed above as dyes.
http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/cl/web-large/DP118991.jpg
oooh, I remember seeing that unicorn tapestry on my one trip to the Cloisters years ago. So pretty. I didn't realize they only used three dyes to make it! The 'spell' plants sound cool to me--hope they had a bubbling cauldron nearby for that display! :-)
I have seen pictures of that. It sure is impressive.
Love that tapestry....so detailed...
Now--if you think about it--ink cartridges in our printers also just
have 3 colors (not counting the black) and yet--in a blink of the eye--
it will print out every shade imaginable.....
Someone ages ago had all this already figured our. G.
High Line is on my list of things to see..thanks for posting pics Terry!