Lewisville Plant Swop - Some Pictures

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Well if they are all together I guess the home owner nips round the back to let the first feet in!!! LOL
Those with wee kids and the elderly stay home and let the others come to them, second and third feet are just as welcome! Once you've been first footed you can join in and visit everyone else too.
I'm not Scots by the way but my Grandparents were from the North of England and we had a modified version, but we did Christmas too. Xmas Eve was for parties, we then had a short watch night service in church through the midnight hour, Christmas day was gifts in the morning, a huge lunch, and listen to the Queens speech to the nation on the radio mid afternoon, (no TV in my youth) and visit cousins etc for tea. Boxing Day cousins etc visited us.
Boxing Day, the day after Xmas Day, was traditionally the servants day off to visit their own families after having looked after the "big house folk" on the day itself. Its called Boxing Day because the master and mistress gave each of their staff a Christmas Box (present) in the morning before they went off. ( The present was usually a new uniform for next year!)
Both my grandparents were "in service" at the big house in the village in their youth, so thats inside info!
A SG Hogmanay sounds fun - trouble is with all that driving we would all get nicked for DWI !!

I'm a little late, but I'm sorry I missed it too! I was going to go, but my husband asked out of the blue if we could go see my parent's new house in OK since he hasn't seen it yet. A man asking to go to his in-laws?! Couldn't pass that up! But seriously, he rarely has enough of a break during school to take an entire day off from studying, so we went to visit them.
John- you crack me up! My in-laws go to this wood carving class in Arkansas every year. Well, my MIL said that it's "always the weekend after I give my mid-term in my Spanish class" so they went that weekend. Got up at 3:30 in the morning and drove 4 hours to this place. Guess what? It was the previous weekend! So they just turned around and drove home. I cannot believe she didn't make sure it was the correct weekend- as if they coordinate it with her school schedule! Good stuff man.
Well, y'all let me know when the next swap is!

Jamie

She is a kindred spirit.

Sweezel, I don't think I left with any of your plants. I just bought and planted a bunch of katy mexican petunias a few months ago. I actually didn't acquire that many plants but my friend Laura (who came with me) stocked up. My Tahoe was full!
And thanks again for all the great stuff from everybody :) I don't remember who gave the old Niel Sperry Mags but I've been reading them. In fact I went ahead and bought a subscription.

Siggy, that reminds me to order his garden calandar. Thanks!

I picked up some sweet pea seeds at the swap. Any advice for growing successfull fall sweet peas?

Well, David... I tried looking up info on your Sweet Peas, but I'm not sure I have all the answers.... well, in fact I KNOW I don't have all the answers... Anyway, this is what I found:

Sow the seeds outdoors in fall about 1/4" deep in peaty soil.
They need 20-30 days to germinate at temps between 55 & 65 degrees.

Not sure if we have that kind of time left in the season, but you might have some luck. If not, just put 'em in the ground and wait to see them in the spring.

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I FINALLY got all my plants in the ground from the swap on Tuesday (yes, in the rain!) ~ feels SO good to have so much done for the season! Whew! I'd been dragging it out for months, even though if you'd ask my DH he'd say I was out there 25/8 (lol). right.

Hope you're all doing well. Yes, I'm ready to get started planning LOL ~ well, truthfully NOT but always up for a party! even though I haven't actually haven't "partied" in oh so many years! ha! Funny what plant people call a party, isn't it? hehe

I am going to give sweat peas a shot. Also I just planted some hollyhock seedlings in the ground. I don't know if they'll survive the winter. Planting seeds sure is fun.

I'm going to wait till late winter and start some in peat pots indoors and set 'um out in mid March. They can handle quite a bit of frost. Are you going with the tall or short ones?

Well I have both packets. But the ones I started are the tall ones. They are what I really want growing. Then I'll save the rest till later then. I understand it takes them a year to bloom? That's why I was trying to jump start the process.

They are cool season annuals.

They will bloom the same year you plant them if you plant in the spring. They are not pereenial so you will need to save some seed and start over the year after. If you let them set seed they will stop blooming though so you need to leave it late to harvest your seed crop.
Love them to bits the scent is so gorgeous.

So the ones I am growing now, the seedlings are doomed? I thought they were perenial :-(

Sweezel Will tell you later what plants I got. Am busy now remodeling my mothers bath and she has no water. So will try to catch up as soon as possible.

Thanks Ted

Pville: Thanks for the tip on uploading pictures. Hopefully, I can do that on Sunday.

Cajan: I am so glad to know who gave me the dwarf canna.

When I have a chance, I truly enjoy reading this forum and all the great discussions.

As of this moment, I am still palling on going to Trinity on Saturday.

See y'all.

Adeline

Siggy,
Are you talking about the sweet pea or the hollyhocks that you thought were perennial? I have read that Hollyhocks are biennial and should be sown in the fall.

You can plant sweetpeas in either fall or spring, which ever you do they will flower that summer. There is a perennial sweetpea its a bluey purple flower, grows well in shade too. The multicoloured ones that are heavily scented and good for cutting are the annuals. They need a fair bit of sun to do well, but not I suspect full Texas afternoon sun!!
Hollyhocks are officially biennial so they need a whole season to develop and flower the next, at least in the UK. I have had them flower the next summer from a fall planting but its only a few. I've also had the odd one become a sort of short lived perrennial. Mainly I've planted in spring for the following year but they self seed like mad so once you have them they are always there!

That answers alot. I thought I could pull off planting sweet peas for fall/winter color. And I thought hollyhocks were a pereniel. This is all new to me.

David,
You just ask away and anyone with knowledge will gladly jump in to help. I have really learned a lot since joining DG.

It might be posible to plant sweetpeas now Siggy. They can take quite a bit of cold weather but, to me it seems risky. Keep asking. Maybe your county agent or, a local nursery?

I have plenty of seed. I had heard that sweet peas like cool weather so I figured they would work the way petunias and snap dragons do. What the heck at the worst they'll die. I don't have anything else growing there.

I think the biggest risk would be from cold soils until the plants emerge. Then they would be ok until it got very cold. I don't know what that bottom temperature is for sweet peas though. But, it is lower than most plants.

Commercial flower growers in Yorkshire UK used to winter sow as routine when I was a kid. To get an earlier crop. It gets pretty cold there in winter, and winter is much longer than here, so I think you should be OK here

Wow, looks like everyone had a great time, except poor John...

I am in for the next time. Though way up here in this cold snowy weather, I don' tknow what i could grow to bring. We will see...

I usually have a good time where ever I go. But, not in the same place as everyone else! :-|

My hollyhocks have been 'odd' to say the least! I had three var. growing at once. One was a dwarf double pink. Didn't know about keeping them dead headed, so I ended up KILLING that one, I think :-(

Had a double yellow and a black growing in Sam's garden last year. Both came back in the spring, but the black one "disappeared'! I have NO idea what happened to it. The double yellow is still rather short, but awfully study looking and seems to be on a nice growing spurt these past few weeks. I have no doubt it'll be back in the spring and HOPEfully I'll see blooms next year!

hope this helps,
~ Carole

Hey where and when did this happen?!!!! I have to go next time. Sorry I missed all of this fun.. I have so many extra plants I would have glady driven someplace to share and trade. When will it happen again and where?

I finally figured out that the pictures I was trying to upload were too large; so I resized and hope it will work this time.

Adeline

Oh! Oh! Oh! It worked.

This is great fun. LOL. Doesn't take much for me to have fun.

LOL...I think we may have created a new photo monster LOL j/k....very nice pictures!

You did it. !!!!!!!!!!!! nice photo's

Thank you! Here's another.

Wheeeee! I'm on a roll.

Wish we still had that weather.

Close to finish.

Thought I took more pictures, but these were all that showed up on my camera. Probably too busy talking and gawking at all of the beautiful plants you all brought. Hopefully, this spring I will have some plants to share at the swap.

I also found out while sending these pictures that just a picture cannot be sent. You must type something in the message box.

Last one.

Adeline, so glad you got your pictures to post. That's the back of my dd in the first picture you posted.

Ruthm, I don't think we have decided on a date for the next roundup but we have been talking about the first of April. Probably decide something around February.

The Buffalo Bull, turned out to have been bottle fed by humans, so he has no fear of people...not that, that makes him any less dangerous...but it explains his behavior a little.