Spring 2015 Plant Swap Discussions - PART TWO

Jill, may I have three of the Wave Petunias?

LMBO...Bec you WANT MG seeds....are you CRAZY?!?!!! How about if I send mystery seeds - could be MG could be Cardinal or Cypress vine????

For the record PLEASE if you've asked me for something...send me a dmail. I'm horrible (as most of you know) at keeping up with the threads.

Thanks sally--
I hope the Tropical Milkweeds will grow in a root-infested bed. It IS a weed??

Weird--that the soil in this bed is so very good--maybe remnants from
decades ago when it held 2 whiskey barrels full of good soil.
Eventually, the barrels disintegrated--the maple invaded the soil In just 2 years!
We removed the barrels slats and filled around them piles with good soil.
THAT is how this bed started....However--it has sat unused also for decades.

it is SO hard to dig any presentable hole in this forlorn bed--as big roots
are everywhere--and right near the surface. That is why I was trying to
grow the Milkweed from seed. Let their roots find a way to some good soil!

Besides--I can plant your 3 "babies" in the same big pot I grew them in last year.
I think that was also 3 rooted starts--from coleup.

Will work something out....G.

Catbird, got you on the Wave Petunias, 3 for you and 3 for SSG. I was happy to find them also, because one of my heat mats failed... I finally realized the petunias and other seedlings there were just staying tiny and staying tiny and... well, they may eventually grow now, but they will be pretty late! The price of those wave petunias is why I like to grow them from seed. But for plants as big as these, I'd have had to start them in January. :-)

Sequoia, I had you down for 1 Hellebore from the first round -- do you want 3?

Does anybody want "mystery" (eg "lost tag") Hellebores from the $3 special? The ones that aren't 'Pink Frost' (can guess from the foliage) are probably one of the other varieties they had -- 'Cinnamon Frost', 'Mahogany Frost', or the white one that I can't recall LOL.

I'm planting a meandering hedge of hellebores... and any extras that y'all don't want will be taken to my MIL's garden. :-)

Chantell - yes, I do :) Mystery would be great! Remember I have 1/4 acre of fencing to cover!

Jill, I'll take 3 - 5 of the NOID Helebores and I'll split the cost for another Pink Frost to send to Becky via Chantell! That would be 10 pink frost, one white, and 5 noid. I'd also like 3 of the Wave petunias, color doesn't matter,

I do have a suggestion since you and I are exchanging so many or so big plants, that we make a time in the next week or so to meet up and trade. I'm riding to Swap with Sallyg, Catbird and Gita so space is limited. Save us both some loading and unloading. too. What say you? This would be during the day, between rush hours!

Had trouble making posts on Maf last half hour or so. Have contacted Admin...no send button!

Would anyone like some Sensitive Fern, Onoclea sensibilis?

Sally, Do you still have some double Yellow Datura seedlings and Blue Spruce Sedum?

Sure do Holly. The Datura only have a few leaves but I'm counting on them growing fast in the ground and catching up. I'll bring some of each.

clarifying- I'll bring some of each. -yellow Datura and the blue Sedum,

GT do you still have any Baptisia alba - White False Indigo?

Thanks Sally

Yes Holly, enough for you.

Holly, I am so thrilled that Jamie will give the Bald Cypress a forever home!!! Let me know if he wants a Swamp Oak, too.

These are from a pile of letover 'free trees' at an Earthday/Arbor Day fair. I grabbed them and have potted them up and am awaiting leaf out to ID some of the others. Should be some Grey Dogwood and Willow Oak amongst them, Will make a list of availability for Fall Swap. Hope also to root cuttings from Red Twig Dogwood with the variegated leaf, and some yellow twig.

So, last minute request for any extra 4' square (deep preferred) or 1 or 2 gallon trade pots.
Thanks!

Colup--

I can provide you about ten of the 4" deep, perennial-type pots
and five 1.75gal. black pots. Need any reg. 6" pots?

Gita--the pot collector.

I'll see what I can find in the way of pots. Will talk to Jamie about the Swap Oak.

I took cuttings of japanese dappled willow, "Great Aunt Erna's" lilac, and variegated weigelia... LMK if you want to try to root your own, otherwise I'll pot them up as they strike roots (they are in communal pots for easier tending/watering now) and bring them this fall and/or next spring.

Gita, could I please have a fig? My one vigorous cutting dropped all its leaves while I was in Pittsburgh... and yes, I brought it outside in stages... no clue what happened, although I'm hoping it will leaf out again. If you have 2 left, I'd take one for Martina, too... she'd like to try a fig on the sheltered side of her shed. Thanks!

Bad news on the Purple Rooster Monarda... There were a lot of evil weeds sprouting up right in the midst of it, and by the time I finished pulling and fussing with it, my "big clump" wasn't looking so promising. I'll try to give it extra TLC this summer and will hopefully have it to share down the road.

I've got some houseplant cuttings available... 3 sets of purple-leafed "Moses in the Cradle" already in water, and I can offer spiders from my Hawaiian Spider Plant as well as my Curly Spider. I can also take Alsobia 'Cygnet' cuttings, and they're almost as easy to root as spider plants.

Speaking of easy to root, would anybody like Hardy Geranium 'Biokovo' cuttings? I do them in deep cell packs or 16-oz plastic cups, usually 3 cuttings to a pot just because I have lots, no special care or covering this time of year, just keep them moist until they root.

Thanks Gita and Holly!

Gita, we can leave the pots at Sally's. What time are you planning to get there? Remind me that I have a special project plant for you as I figure you are about the only one who can save it, another of your amazing skills along with pot collecting and pickling!

FYI Tropical Miilkweed should be ready by June....maybe at Yehudith's Tea Party! I've just taken cuttings from my mother plants this week. The tropical really wants heat to germinate or take off.
Hope there is enough sun in that back bed so you get some more flowers and more seeds.

Does anyone want a 2nd season in my garden azalea that bloomed for me this year - in RED? I noticed it last evening when I was doing the walk about. You guys know that I rarely do anything but the pastel color shades in my woodland garden, so seeing the RED was a surprise. I have the named cultivar that I will look up, but either I read the description wrong when I bought it or it was mislabeled. In either case, I'll be digging it up and it is up for grabs LOL.

Aspen, would you put me down for dibs?

Ha, Jill, I was just thinking of how some additional 'Biokovo' would look. Yes, to some cuttings and sorry about Purple Rooster.


Heads up. as of this morning I have at least 4 pots each of Butterfly Weed (asclepias tuberosa) and Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) to share. More may emerge by tomorrow!