I need a good batch of *fresh* Mimosa pudica/Sensitivity Plant seeds, and have many freshly collected seeds to offer in exchange:
FRESH SEEDS FROM 2002:
** = among this year's outstanding performers
-- Alyssum, white, still collecting, good garden staple and good self seeder, dead-heading is important for continual blooms, otherwise there you'll get only a spring and fall flush.
-- Amaranth, “Prince’s Feather” (seeds not yet mature), deep red foliage, red stalk/stems, topped with wine-colored plume and smaller plumes at end of branches, 5-6’ tall, 2.5-3’ wide. Dramatic accent plants and annual shrubs. Young leaves can be cooked as potherbs.
-- Amaranth/Amaranthus caudatus, received as “Love-lies-bleeding” and “Intense Purple,” turned out to be a mix of every color of Love-lies-bleeding-type Amaranth: gold, silver, light green, red and pink, with green foliage. Tallish dense ornamental annual shrubs or accent plants. The different colors of pendant tassels look great when they planted in clusters. Young leaves can be cooked as potherbs.
-- Balsam/Impatiens balsamina, bush doubles, “camelia-blooms,” some mixed, some separated by color (fuschia, red, lavender, white/very pale pink). Dead-heading is good because the dead flowers are markedly unattractive.
-- **Balsam/Impatiens balsamina** - heirloom garden Touch-Me-Nots, aka Sweet Balsam, good self seeders. Mixed light pink and coral. Short-lived, so, in areas with long growing season, plan to replant in midsummer -- or just cut off stalks at ground level and rough the soil and keep moist for a few days. Replacements will come up from dropped seeds.
-- Bulbifer, unknown – large dry pod appeared from nowhere, full of good seed
-- Canna lilies, found cannas, 4’ red, constant bloomers
-- Clematis, Belle of Woking – fully double, large, light blue blooms, only 12 seeds, said to be difficult to start
-- Datura innoxia, “Moonflower” (a low annual shrub, not the vine), large (5”+) white, very perfumed trumpet blooms, open from dusk to noon, will bloom well all summer if given ample root space, fed regularly and seed pods are removed
-- Datura tatula – white trumpet w/indigo striped throat, will bloom well all summer if given ample root space, fed regularly and seed pods are removed
-- Dianthus, deep red – from purchased plants
-- Dianthus, pink w/dark pink eye – from purchased plants
-- Dianthus, pink with red eye – from purchased plants
-- Hyacinth Bean Vine "Ruby Moon"/Dolichos lablab -- pods not yet dry
-- Liriope muscari/Monkey Grass aka Lily Turf, dark green blades, 10-14", taller lavender racemes in midsummer. Unlimited supply of plants also available.
-- **Malabar Spinach** – Asian vining edible green, good cooked or fresh in salads (tasty and beautiful with nasturtium blooms!), a regular on my table. I had four seeds to start with this year; three germinated (slow starters), and they still densely covered a 5x15” lattice and surrounded the windows above them. Very ornamental, glossy deep red vine stems w/dark green, almost round leaves of all sizes. Profusion of racemes of “pink kissed” white buds from midsummer on. Buds mature to clusters of small, shiny, black, inedible fruit by end of summer. I’m convinced the fruit have antibiotic properties because I tried for a month and a half to ferment them (to clean the seeds): I bruised and mashed them and covered with water, a week later, added sugar to feed bacteria. Then, over time, I added every bacteria-rich substance I could think of, including composted manure, and they never fermented.
-- **Marigolds, Lemon Drop**, 8” deep green bushy plants, always full of 1" double blooms, good for carpet-planting. They’re common, but every year I start at least a flat or two, and they’re the workhorse of my garden, filling in wherever something else dies – and they are good self seeders. Dead-head for best blooming.
-- Moonflower Vine – pods not yet mature
-- Morning Glory, Japanese (“Hige”), fuchsia, double “feathered” corolla
-- Morning Glory, Kniola’s Black (darkest purple morning glory)
-- Morning Glory, mini sky blue, native or naturalized, hardy, 15-20” if started early
-- Morning Glory, Noah’s Orange, said to have appeared after a flood in Missouri, 15-20’, profuse bloomers, tiny red-orange flowers, halbert leaves, fast grower, out-paces all other varieties I grow
-- Morning Glory, Scarlet O’Hara
-- Sweet Peas, native or naturalized pink perennial, bloom all summer, right through 100-degree weather
-- Tomato, "Green Grape," possibly same as Green Zebra - smooth, round, 3", green with yellow stripes. Slicing tomato, pleasingly tart
-- Tomato, Jaune Flammee, French heirloom, clusters of 3" smooth, orange tomatoes, favorite of many expert tomato-growers
-- Tomato, "Rampant" Cherry, family heirloom, appeared as volunteer in my grandmother's garden 50-60 years ago. Prolific. When started early, will reach 15-20'. We've trained them on an arbor with clusters of cherry tomatoes hanging like grapes.
-- Tomato, heirloom White - really white, somewhat squat, 4-5”, normal, rich tomato flavor, shoulders tend to split like many heirlooms
-- Torenia, violet w/purple ears & white w/purple ears, mixed. Another good garden workhorse. I plant two flats and then use them all summer to fill in where other plants fail. Dead-heading is important for continual bloom.
-- Zinnia, dwarf orange – from purchased plant
Hundreds more seeds on my list mostly from 2001 or earlier. A link to my trading list is on my DG Home Page. I need for those to move on, so I will share them generously.
To propose other trades, please see my Wish List at the same link.
Seeking fresh Mimosa pudica/Sensitivity Plant seeds
