My "dead sambac has been outside for a couple weeks and just looks dead-er, but my fingers are crossed for a resurrection.
I've got you down for one 'Hot Lemon' pepper plant and a Bronze Fennel; again, I can't promise they'll have any left....
Spring Plant Swap 2014 in Lucketts, VA - Part 2
I'm good either way... should sow some fennel out there anyway, when we throw some dill seed around.
Yehudith has posted in another thread that she can't use all the glads and dahlias that she bought, so she's giving them away. She lives nearby so I can pick up the bulbs and bring them to Terri's for anyone who's interested.
thanks, SSG!
I'd love some dahlias. Thanks SSG and Yehudith!
Devon - late to the party as always...if they had (and you picked up) any of that Carolina Jasmin - I'd happily take some off your hands because I'm nice like that - LOL. The sambacs (for me at least) always play possum toward the end of winter. Jill is right though - give her little sun at a time and warmer temps...you'd be surprised!! Mine is in my bathroom still and has 5 buds on her...with 1/4 of her leaves. Would you like me to check the plant stands that had them last year? They were in the 6-8" nursery pots for around $10.
Chantell and Muddy: There weren't any Carolina Jasmine left -- sorry. I got there right when the leftover sale started, but there had been some "early birds."
Chantell: I think mine is toast, though I'm not starting the funeral dirge yet. If you see a sambac, I'd be delighted to reimburse you.
Critter: I picked up the 'Hot Lemon' pepper plant and Bronze Fennel for you and plan to transfer it to AspenHill today for safe passage to you.
SSG, we'd be interested in some bulbs, too.
We have a couple of Queen's Tears bromeliads if anyone is interested. Please d-mail if you want one.
Thanks, Happy!
Got you down, Pat!
No worries, Devon...thank you for checking.
ALL: I've added the white Daturas to my HAVES list. The mama plant reseeded last year...love the evening scent of these blooms!!
I think I just weeded out my only surviving parsley seedling. OOPS! I really need to be more careful when weeding.
Does anyone have any extra parsley? If not I'll try sowing some more seeds.
Does anyone have pink lily of the valley? Just fell in love with a lovely pot of it at the plant sale. Didn't get to buy it. One of the members brought it in yesterday during set up. We are allowed to purchase anything before the sale and of course it was gone before I got there this afternoon.
SSG I have lots of Hamburg Parsley seedlings (seeds from Greenthumb from the seed swap). Would you like some?
Holly I have never seen a pink lily of the valley. If I were you I would ask around who brought it.
Best of luck!
Catmint, how interesting! I'd heard about using parsley roots in soups, but I didn't realize there was a cultivar specifically for this purpose.
I'll let the caterpillars eat the tops and just use the root. Thank you!
And greenthumb, you have such interesting plants!
Okay, got you down, SSG! :-)
I would call them slightly white with a serious pink blush. Very charming.
Oooooo sound very pretty...fragrant as well?
I got a few pips of the pink lily-of-the-valley at Merrifield Gardens and another few pips at the plant sale I went to last weekend. I never have much luck with even the white lily-of-the-valley spreading, but if these pink ones do I'll have them for sharing in a few years.
My white lily of the valley spreads but very slowly within maple roots. My friend can't get rid of hers though. They aren't big growers, but once they are there, you can hardly get them out, if you wanted to.
I have rooted cuttings of Night blooming jasmine.
Sally, I'd love a night blooming jasmine (I might already have asked).
Sure happy- I'll probably just bring the whole small pot with four stems in it.
Sally - how do you root the NBJ?
Regarding the Lily of Valley - I think I shared with you all that all the ones I purchased would die. It wasn't till I rec'd some at various swaps that they did well. Mine are spreading beneath my dwarf Magnolia but slowly as mentioned above.
Terri - if ok...I'd like to bring my friend Donna instead of my nephew this year. She loves plants and just bought her first home so sadly doesn't have anything to share but I'm sure would welcome anything that hasn't found a home by swap time. She's a wonderful person AND plant lover!!
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Sure Chantell. We'd love to meet her!
Sally Method to Root NBJ- for Chantell
Get plant from Jill. year one
Never prune , and it gets ridiculous tall skinny stem
Get mites over winter, nearly kill it.
year two early spring
Cut off tall stem to force branching from base
Chop stem into pieces six inches
Stick in pot.
Put on picnic table subject to torrential rains and temps in the 50 to 60s in shade.
Voila!
LOL Sally! What kind of soil did you root the stems in?
I can't remember who wanted it, but I might have some Asclepias syriaca plants to share. I dug them up from the lawn of a very nice young couple who have a patch from which it spread to the grass. I'm not sure how they'll do because I didn't get a lot of rhizomes with the clumps. As it was, I was butchering their lawn with their small shovel, which I managed to break shortly after accidentally bonking their toddler on the head with it (toddler okay)!
If I had Sally's natural born talent, I could propagate the rhizomes; for now, I planted some and left the rest sitting in a bucket of mud.
Chantell wanted some Asclepias syriaca. I acquired some for her yesterday. Spent the past two days manning the milkweed sales table for Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. The organization, with the help of Brownies, Girl Scouts, parents and other assorted volunteers installed large Monarch Waystations at two Loudoun County Locations, totaling over 1,000 milkweed plants and a similar number of nectar plants.
That's wonderful, Greenthumb!
That is awesome David! Great work.
I just advised people on Milkweed purchases and collected money. Everyone else did the work.
I should have specified- stick the pieces of NBJ stem in some old reused potting mix
I thought I had another request for A syriaca so I pulled some more stems, trimmed them like cuttings, and potted them. I had done this last week and they looked pretty happy that way. Each stem has a few inches of white portion, but no actual horizontal rhizome. We'll see.
Good job David!
I'll take one of those A. syriaca, please, Sally. ROFL @ your propagation methods. My main plant croaked over the winter, but I have a cutting that's been in water for over a year (even flowered once or twice), so I'm going to try to transition it to a pot. NBJ is pretty tough!
David - you're THE man!! Thank you...and the butterflies thank you!
Sally - that was snortable!! I had my 2 since before Chloe was born soooo 7+ years. Never got spider mites but much like everything I bring inside - I let go semi-dormant...at least that's how they appear losing all their leaves and such. Well it's doesn't look like she's gonna bounce back this year. She'd typically (much like my sambacs - see photo) be 'waking' up by now. She'd got so tall (6' plus) in the past I'd have to prune her back before bringing inside for the fall/winter. Oh well...picked up another this past weekend...I mourn quickly...what can I say?
BTW - need to add to my have list - Blood Maple toddlers (let me thank my neighbor again this year) as well as that ginger that I can't seem to get the entire rhizome up and bless her heart keeps coming up each year...LOL. I'll look up specific name but I believe it's Thai Pink Profusion. No scent - or faint...but pretty bloom...hardy for me.
That is too funny, Sally! :-D
David, I've been so impressed with the work of the Loudon Wildlife Conservancy. Sure wish Maryland had something comparable!
Chantell, Can I have one of your Bloodgood Maples? Thank you!
Is anybody interested in baby red maples? possibly also sugar maples? I'm visiting my parents, and I see little ones all around... I will probably dig some for my own fence row, so I could bring home some extras pretty easily.
Jill, I think Jamie and Deb would like a Red Maple. If you get one dug but don't put yourself out, too much.
I'd take a Red Maple if there's one available for me, Jill.