Yet More Seed Snatching

ROFLMBO Just HOW LONG did it take to write that? Magpye, that is hilarious. I don't have a poetic bone in my body.

Creative genius at work....
Can we get that printed on the back of weeze's seed packs?

Here here! Magpye! Brilliant!!!!

Weez - guess you noticed didn't e-mail you over the weekend. Will though promise! Just got to think on it a bit!

That was'nt my DH but my DBIL, fun was had by all, my DsisterIL DMIL DH 2DBIL's , DH took lot's of pictures, and I will post in pictures! too soon it ended, and back we came treasures in hand!
Here's a picture for the side of the Blue Bus!

Equi, my DH knows I'm crazy, and usually will play along, he loves the fact I have PERSONALITY, and am my own girl!!!! I know, you know kinda hard for them bones, Rossmoor, Walnut Creek Ca.
Weez, You crack me up!!!!
Sugar, GardenAddic, You're too kind!!!
Magpie, I will sing your song for the Holidays, So well said!

I vote for Magpye as our official poet laureate! Looks like we'll need a lap top or two in order to get printouts so we can sing around our post raid bonfire.

NC, no problem... I'm so spacy I can't remember what the heck we were working on! LOL!

I volunteer to provide lots of buckthorn for the post raid bon fire!

Hey, Equil, I looked up buckthorn, and I guess you won't miss a few there in the midwest, will you!

Good old Rhamnus frangula and R. cathartica! And there are many more there ripe for the taking! Let me know how much you want for your little bonfire and I'll have sugarweed come and get it once she gets her new CDL! Say, I've got Japanese honeysuckle too. That stuff is great as a firestarter! Really gets that European Buckthorn going good!

How bout some Kudzu! We could have a bonfire that can be seen from the moon!

I can add some Devil's Club... that will bet it cracklin, too!

new and late at the same time...
Fall tis the season to snatch: watch the big planters infront of various offices and corps that may have uncommon varieties of pelargonium & coleus for cuttings and you may even lift tubers of the black or chartreuse sweet potatoe to overwinter.
CANNAS - look at what they still charge per rhizome for a Tropicana or Bengal. Welll, they do set seed sometime if not deadheaded so if you spot a stand of cannas around that haven't been cut back, give the fuzzy little seedpods a squeeze. If they're hard take 'em. Score and sprout and have blooms next summer. OR have some things for the plant swap. I got my orginal Black Knights from the entrance to a golf course and Wyoming from a local nursing home.

Stealth Snatchin'- Have you ever been wandering around a nursery or garden section of Home Depot/Walmart, etc.. and you get approached for assistance by another customer who thinks you work there? Well then, since you've probably still got your favorite pruners/scissors in a well worn holster from your belt, a few pruning cuts will be undetected as one of the 'employees' and is an appropriate reward for your contribution, don't you think? By the time I was finished with one lady at Stein's, I had to get a real employee to help her with two flatbed carts loaded with sod, ammendments, sand and pavers. Her jaw dropped and she proceeded to crosscheck everything I had told her with the employee but eventually left with everything. I had a few buddleia cuttings sticking out of my backpocket as I checked out and left.

8ftbed, WELCOME to Dave's Garden and the Seed Snatchin' thread. You'll fit right in here.

Hey Weezingreens - this thread is starting to take a bit to load for me... Think we ought to go to NUMBER 4? :-)

We may be settin' a record!! LOL

Just a suggestion. Not much of a problem for me at work but at home - don't even want to think about it!

No record yet, nc, Nightowls over in Jokes and Chat are in their 20'th something thread.

AHHH!! Wow!

Oh my gosh, I shop at Steins on Green Bay Rd! Where are you 8ftbed? I live about 10 miles from Zion Illinois. You have some incredible and innovative game plans there for snatching! Me, I am a novice and only have one snatch to my credit. Perhaps you had better show me the ropes!

Welcome 8ft bed, so glad Lauren found a seed stealin, dumpster divin buddy. It's like a small gift from ...oh well.
I'm studing those Bleeding Hearts, as You can see it's a prolific bloomer. I have a plan. have been out and have some i believe viable semi-herbaceous cuttings,they are loaded with seed pods. I also cliped some dried seed pods, but don't know which is viable.

I couldn't ... I jes couldn't do it ... no matter, even if I'da really really wanted these seeds
bad - - I'd still've not been able to pull this'un off!!! ... Oh wise weez .. fergib me, please .. !

(truth is, I didn't want 'em anyway .. had enuff of those things back in La) .. LOL ..

- Magpye

deadheading is saving the flower from distintion...Spreading his wonderful flowers for us all to enjoy..

Equilibrium... Greenbay covers a lot of miles but I'd bet we're both referring to the one in Kenosha which is basically 10 min out my back door. How ya doing neighbor!!

Houseplant GoldMine -----> Go to the MALL!!!
Every Mall has plants all over the place and so "Conveniently" planted where any benches and chairs are placed. While you rest and watch the walkers, you may as well gather a few starts of different kinds of ivy and spider plant and maybe offshoots of some succulents/bomelaids, whatever! They whack most stuff back to stay within the limits of the planting area anyway. So - new plants for you orrrrrrrr, more cheap cuttings to start for the next plant swap.

(sugarweed... "stealin.." that just plain hurts ) ;-p

.is this private or anyone comment. ? sorry if it is...

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Example: Yesterday I took the kids to a park to eat their fast food and while i was there i remembered their giant yellow columbine and sure enough i got there in time for fresh seeds enough to use and have a small trade of Or when you are driving down a back road somewhere and see a flower you can it dig up if it looks like it doesn't belong to somebody and take some home for yourself. I'm a plant addict so for me it depends on what the situation calls for sometimes I snatch and sometimes i propagate! ps this is not me i just giving explaynation for the two...

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8ft, Snatchin, dern it, Seed Snatchin. (;>)

sugarweed, ya know I sailed out of Mayport for 2 years. Since I was living onboard the ship (geographical batchelor for my last tour) I didn't get my nails dirty. BUT always fishing, I soon found some uh, contacts, who appreciated a constant supply of fresh seafood which in turn got me off the ship into some local homes.
heh, heh.. Care to guess where my Jade, dwarf citrus, aloe vera and avocado plants originated? Problem is I probably could've had starts for the asking but felt I needed to keep my Snatchin skills up to speed.

8ft, Well, give me a shopping route then. I've lived here almost 9 years, but was just a place to be between jobs. I'm trying to get retired, and love to garden, snatch, plant ugly free dirt, and have been known to do a clean out of invasives in the park my house faces.

hope43, parks and side roads can be absolute gold mine's. :-) You go girl!

8ft, way to go, Welcome to this thread, We can use you!!!!
Hope, no privacy here, just join right on in, sit down, have a cup and stay awhile, We love company!!!!!

hey hope 43, dont feel bad, i wanted to post , but my wife said to shut up and be quiet. dang pernickedy women. naw really, jump in there and enjoy ya self.. my wife will reply , caint keep her lips from seperating, or fingers from typein.... have a goodun.

by the way, my wife uses the name " magpye" on here. she is a lurker, kinda quiet

Wellllllllll .. Oh my goshers !! .. I've been ''de-throned' (so-to-speak) .. and, by my own kin, no doubt !!! ..
(P'nut .. move over .. Papa's movin' in widja tonite!! ) .. LOL ..

But, thank ya, ye ol coot .. fer tryin' .. Very sweet of ye!

I'd already had this typed up, and bout ready to post .. and he beat me to it!!

hope43 .. Gracious no hun .. Certainly have not meant to risk making you feel alienated, at all.

Please accept my apologies? .. Neither have I intentionally meant to not include you in my lil diddy poem, either. I know you've been acknowledged in one or both of the prior 'chapters' of this same thread ..

However, ol 'duh' me took and used names on this present thread .. to compose the poem. Please rest assured that it was not intentional ...

It sure don't give a body a very good feelin' when it seems you may be being looked over .. I certainly can associate!

I kindly dart in and out, as I can .. Sometimes can sit here for hours on in, and other times .. am duckin' in and out for 10 minute sit ins !! ... LOL Seem to be spreading myself rather thin on here .. AND with hubby!
Pushing my 'luck' .. and big time!! .. (as one can easily see NOW!!) . . . LOL

Catch a wind .. and parachute on in!! .. Ya mite have to ring some bells and blow some whistles on an occasion tho' .. but I think we're all in here, fer the fun ...

- Magpye

ROFLMBO I didn't know "magpye" and "quiet" could go in the same sentence.

I kind of figgered you would be magpye's other half, bein' as I didn't think more than two people in Deer, AR mite would own a computer. I been through your quaint town a couple of times and it's one of those places where you blink and ya done missed it. Some of the most beautiful country God ever made.

Welllll, the dangummit ol goats' done up and went and blowed my whole cover (hee)
...... AND, my dadblamed secret, to boot !! !! .. LOL ...

Ahh, men ... (excuse me) - make that .. (what'd he say up'ar?) - - 'pernickedy', ol men!!!
Now, jes what on earth .. is, pernickedy .. any how, puldeau ? ... Whar'd you go to be a
readin' such nonsense anyways .. ? .. (I luv ya coot!)

Reckon we mite oughta quit hi-jackin' this thread like'is. Now that weez, knows we's connected ..
along with them pitters I been a postin' . . . Oh lawdy .. she may come and whoop up on me fer
such tirades as this ... Make that, whoop ' US ' !! .. See thar, you done up and went and dug yorn
own ol hole - and I didn't have a thang to do wit'it either!!! ... LOL ... * Ya got a fresh pot o'coffee
down 'ar? .. hee

Cherish .... You're right .. it's not but quaint lil communities .. but life's sure nuff good here. Heck, our
biggest town (and county seat), haint even got a traffic light! Thank you for the wonderful comments
about our area. Mitey sweet of ya. Bless pat, all that we've been able to 'see' of OK, so far .. has been
the veiws thru the truck windows, from I-40 .. and right on thru OK. ...

One of these days tho' ... one of these days.

- Magpye

Magpye, if you've never been off of I-40, then you've only seen the part of Oklahoma that is flat as a pancake. The Ouachita Mountains are south of me, it's just starting to get hilly where I live. It's actually not much, if any, different that where you live. http://www.talimenascenicdrive.com/

Ya, one of these days, the quiet one, LOL LOL

AH HA HA HA HA! Magpye's husband is here! Oh my gawd! Gotta give the man credit! I used my husband's user name here in hopes he could spot me if he ever did lurk but no way no how is he getting anywhere near me and my garden geek buddies.

This thread has that 'come an' get me' sorta flavor, so hijack away! Eventually we'll get back to a subject, but meanwhile, wander where ye may.

Magpye i really like your poems.. so cute.. its pretty cherishlife down moutains, down heavener, been runestone twice now to took granddaughter.church group went down talimenia drive.. 412 real pretty to go down to ark though not really down.... oh so sorry but cemataries do not care if take seed pods.. were loaded last time went minne. at where dad is but i got few lillies seeds off than lost where put them.. sorry if its no no.. ..

Welcome Hope!!!! This is in my humble opinion one of the best threads I've ever read on DG! In my short but fulfilling life here on DG..

Not only is it funny and good chattin' but also applicable to real life Snatchin'!

We're planning a road trip too as soon as one of us wins the lottery!! lol

Hadn't thought about the mall 8ft!! Great idea, esp since I hate the mall and hubby loves it. Now I will have something to look forward to!!!

Hope, I don't see a problem with snatchin' seeds from a cemetary. I don't know how others feel about it though.