Spring 2015 Plant Swap DISCUSSIONS

Did you grow them from seeds? I brought NE Asters seeds to the swap last year. Mine were 5-6' tall last year. I didn't cut them back, and I had to stake them.

I saw milkweed seedlings when I was cleaning up outside today. Tomorrow's rain should help more pop up!

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muddy--

If all Milkweed seedlings look alike--can you take a picture of one?
I would like to see what a seedling looks like.

I had one pot of tropical Milkweed--and i am sure seeds went flying all over.
I would like to use my "unused" bed by the fence to grow more Tropical Milkweed.
Can't plant anything else there....

Thanks, g.

RIght now they're too little to be of much help, but I'll take some photos when they have true leaves.

OR--I could look them up in the seedlings of everything link I have saved.
Did I ever post it here? I think i did.... VERY useful...

http://theseedsite.co.uk/db1.html

Please bookmark this site!!!


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one cue is leaves in pairs on milkweed seedlings

Muddy, I got a clump from a local gardener and they've self-seeded prolifically.

I just cleaned out one of the beds and potted up 4 Winter Blooming Jasimine. They sure are a bright spot in early spring. Any takers?

Holly, to my eye, those would be lovely with a stone wall to drape. But in my flat yard I never found a good spot (yet)

I think I am going to get mine up on a trellis but I think you are right Sally, they look like they really want to sprawl.

Tammy, from HD, asked me to ask you all if anyone would be interested in
divisions of Variegated Miscanthus Grass....Maiden Grass...

She has a clump that needs dividing--or maybe she just wants to get rid of it.
I have no idea how big the clumps will be--but I can ask her as the swap comes closer.

Please let me know--and I will put your name down for it.

http://plants.bachmanslandscaping.com/12070012/Plant/2843/Variegated_Silver_Grass

gita

Two plants I already know I will have for the swap:

#1 Persicaria amplexicaulis, common name Mountain Fleece. Grows 36" - 48" tall, sun to part sun. Scarlet blooms late spring to mid fall. Clump forming, non-invasive.

#2 Salvia lyrata, common name Lyre-leaved Sage. Grows 12" - 18" tall, sun to part shade. Blue-violet flower spikes in mid-spring. Seeds around some but easy to control.

Will dig and pot up prior to swap, but only to order, so I need to know in advance.

I may ask for the Persicaria...

These daffs will need dividing among my early ones blooming with ice follies these are eight inches tall with small flower in proportion to leaves.. Pardon me if pic posts twice..od not at all...something funny going on

Sally, you "may" ask? Is that potential request? If so how many do you want?

Pat and I would be delighted to have some divisions of the daffs you have pictured, of the daffs you have pictured. :-)

My daughter, Aina, wants to dig up a pile of DL's--mostly Frans Hals.
I have to go help her...she has a bad kne...HA! and look who is going to dig????

It is amazing how big and tall etc...everything grows in her small front bed.
It is dry and clay-ee. She has put me to shame since she started gardening...
What on earth is into that Dundalk soil?

I imagine some of you may be interested to have some of these beauties???
LMK. Gita

David, you're like my teasing brother that I never knew I had!
:^)
OK so give me either one or three Persicaria. Cuz I have either one or three holes in my head ...

I'll be happy to share those daffs those daffs.

PS I post from my phone when I add pictures and my typing is usually more horrendous in that case. And when I added the daff pictures it didn't show them ...Ah technology.!

Greenthumb, I would like three (or more) of your Persicaria. Can you comment on its 'pollinator appeal' and bloom period for you? Also performance in dappled shade or morning sun and moisture needs, ie where does it grow best for you? Also, are you and Pat doing the Loudoun Wildlife plant sale again this year? Would you be willing to pick up some plants for me? You are looking for native shrubs and trees...Adkins Arboretum sale had some beauties last Spring:Yellow wood for one. I will try to post dates.

Sally, I love your little daffs little daffs and would take a clump or two along with any extra milkweed.

Coleup, I have you down for at least 3 Persicaria. Really can't speak to 'pollinator appeal', but in checking my photo files I have shots of blooms ranging from mid-June to mid-September. I will indeed be working the LWC native plant sale on the 18th and can certainly pick up some plants and bring them to the swap.

Edited to add: Ours gets midday sun and and survives in crappy clay soil with little additional watering.

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you got em coleup!

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Chantell! Where have you been?

Heya!

I'm putting an order in at Texas Water Lilies ASAP. They have a bicolor lotus that is totally stunning, and they say it would do well in a big water garden container (whisky barrel or bigger) and that it just doesn't stop blooming. If we collectively order 5 of them, we can get them for less than half price... $13 plus a dollar or two for shipping.

Check out the top of their lotus page: http://texaswaterlilies.com/lotusorderpage.html

Also, through MamaJack's there are discounts on some of the other water lilies and marginals from Texas Water Lilies. Let me know if you want the list/link.

Is anybody interested in Helleborus 'Pink Frost'? I got a GREAT deal on gallon hellebores this afternoon at Lowe's... they were just marking them down to $5, and when I started sorting out a dozen of them the manager offered me a price of $3 each. I came home with 30, 18 of which are 'Pink Frost'... I can "spare" 9 or 10 of them. :-) I love the foliage on this one -- it has a silvery, somewhat blue cast to it, like a "blue" spruce... would look great with Japanese Ferns, hostas, etc.

I also have 2 or 3 extra 'Cinnamon Frost', with a lighter bloom.

Critter, I would like 5 - 6 of the Pink Frost. Ya. Ya, Ya!
And one or two of the Cinnamon.
Do you want payment now or at Swap??

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Critter I will take one of the Pink Frost and a one Cinnamon Frost. I would take one of the bicolor water lotus I could use some water lilies, too. What's on sale?

Holly, I'm sorry, i offered the extras on the Plant Addicts thread also, and they're gone. I'm going to try to stop by Lowe's again this afternoon... do you want hellebores even if they are $5 instead of $3?

Here's the list of hardy water lilies (you don't want tropicals, right?) and prices. There will be some shipping ($5 for up to 5 more plants), since I'll have to go up the next sized box, but there are 2 "marginals" I can add to make it an even multiple of 5. :-)


HARDY
AUGUSTUS MCKREY $7.95
ATTRACTION $7.95
CHARLENE STRAWN $7.95
COLORADO $8.95
DEBBIE JUNE $7.95
HILITE $7.95
LEMON MIST $8.95
NYMPHAEA ODORATO $5.50
PEACE LILY$7.95
PERRY'S BABY RED $9.95
PERRY'S FIRE OPAL $12.95
SRIBANGPRA $7.95
SULPHUREA$6.95
TEXAS DAWN$7.95

I'm getting both the "Perry's" ones, as they are small varieties, but both are now marked as "sold out." There's also a small, lovely lotus available, 'Beautiful Dancer', for $14.95. I'm getting one as a gift for Joyanna's ballet teacher.

My email just pinged... Jesse says they have sold out of the bicolor lotus, dang it, but we could get Wann Shou Hing instead.. It's a bowl lotus, white with pink tips and maybe more pink on it. Wholesale price is $9.95 (instead of $21.95).

If anybody wants an easy hardy container plant, a small lotus is a great one to try! Fill a no-hole pot (at least 16") with clay within 4 to 6 inches of the top, then add water to the top. Place the tuber on top of the mud, put a rock on top to anchor it, add a couple of fertilizer tabs, and stand back!! They only need to be topped up with water (and a few mosquito-preventing "bits") weekly... much easier than any other container plant! They look so exotic, and they're so tough!

So... who in "in" for trying a bowl lotus??

I'm digging up more raspberries. They're ever-bearing and kind of short, around 3 feet tops, but I have no idea what variety they are.

I was just over on GW and their MAG spring plant swap is also May 9th! They don't seem to be as chatty as us though.

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I can offer black raspberry canes that self-seeded in my orchard area... I'm letting some stay, since they are so very tasty, but I have to get them under control LOL.

SSG, I'd like to ask for a raspberry start for Martina... and if there still extras at the end of the swap, I'll snag one :-)

I've been telling Martina to save the date, but her family is so busy I'm not sure if she'll be able to join us. Her daughter Sarah would sure have fun with Joyanna and with Chantell's granddaughters! Hmm, maybe she'll let me bring Sarah even if she can't make it...

Ok, I got you down for raspberries!

Thanks! Want a black raspberry? (not blackberry -- these are smaller fruits and smaller seeds, similar to 'Heritage' red raspberry, only black)

Lol I can't handle another bramble that wants to wander!

I didn't get to the Y yesterday morning, but Joyanna and I searched all around Lowe's garden area after her ballet class... no hellebores to be found.

SSG, your raspberry sure is a rambler! Started with one and now have 20 in 5 different places , three of them self selected. Very thankful for 'no thorns and large fruit.' This year I've tied mine up to a 4' fence so the tips don't root in...Am also trying some in a large container where the roots can't spread out as far and wide

I went to my Lowes yesterday after all this talk re Hellebores,
It is only 2 miles from my house. Thought I would find one I liked...

They had half a table full of them--NOT on sale!--and all of them were the dark
purple ones--$22. each.

There was nothing on clearance on their racks. G.

Coleup, my raspberries are spreading far and wide! They do have a few thorns, but nothing like blackberry thorns.

I did see $1 columbines on the clearance rack at Lowes, but that was pretty much it. Jill had such good timing!

Some additions to my "HAVES":

White False Indigo - Baptisia alba - full sun, 36"-48", white flower spikes early to mid summer. Young plants started from seed last summer. https://www.google.com/search?q=baptisia+alba&biw=1600&bih=784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ET8oVZjzIcSjgwSbpYHACw&sqi=2&ved=0CKcBEIke

False Aster - Boltonia asteroides - full sun, 36"-48", white flower mid summer to mid fall. Young plants started from seed last summer. https://www.google.com/search?q=baptisia+alba&biw=1600&bih=784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ET8oVZjzIcSjgwSbpYHACw&sqi=2&ved=0CKcBEIke#tbm=isch&q=boltonia+asteroides

Campanula 'Elizabeth' - A yearly offering. Pink elongated bells, full sun to fair amount of shade, 18"-30" Photo #1

Yellow Foxglove - Digitalis grandiflora - sun to part shade. 24"-36", yellow flower spikes in summer, early fall. True perennial species, very hardy Photo #2

Broad-leaved Mountain Mint - Pycnanthemum muticum - sun to part shade. 24"-36", white flower clusters mid summer to early fall. Pollinator magnet, makes nice tea. https://www.google.com/search?q=baptisia+alba&biw=1600&bih=784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ET8oVZjzIcSjgwSbpYHACw&sqi=2&ved=0CKcBEIke#tbm=isch&q=Pycnanthemum+muticum+

Greenthumb, I'd love to try that Campanula!

AHA! David--you got another "victim" to grow Campanula Elizabeth.

Yours grows freely in a clump--looks pretty! Mine is constrained in a 14" square pot.
I gave away so many last year.
I kept one of the pots. It is already solid green with new plants. I will let them all bloom!

SS--IF you don't want the "Elizabeth" to spread all over, grow it in a pot.
IF you have room--by all means-let it spread all over. It IS beautiful..

David--
My yellow Foxglove just struggles and struggles. Lucky to have one or two stems.
I am hoping it will do better and form a clump, as the blooms are not as flamboyant
as the Digitalis ones. Your picture id beautiful.
It does not get a lot of sun--and has to deal with the rain run-off from my shed roof.

Same conditions that my Monkshood did not like. Then I moved it. Same thing...
Last fall--I moved it behind my Bird Bath in full sun--where I dug up my Stinking Iris.
I am hoping this will be the magic spot.

I have had a Blue Baptista plant in a spot now for 4 years. It is on the sunnier
corner of my raised bed. It greens up every year and that is it.
Never even close to a bloom. All I can assume is that it does not like the spot
it is in. It also does not like to be moved (tap root)...not sure how long I will wait
foe miracles...

LMK how your Stinking iris is doing this year. OK? Did you seed the seeds also?

And--David--thank you for using common names when you post. I appreciate it.

Gita

SSG - have you down for the Campanula.

Gita - don't think insufficient sun is the problem with your yellow Foxglove. We have some that thrive in high(not heavy) but day-long shade. Perhaps drainage?

Stinking Iris' are fine, and I did indeed sow the seeds you gave me. Thanks

I'll keep the Campanula in the dry shade bed to keep it from going rampant!