The weathermen PROMISE we are going to have spring in a week or so. That said, it is snowing today and yesterday...
I would love to start rooting a bunch of sun coleus and sweet potato vines. If you have some or if I sent you some in the fall or winter the last two years, can I beg for some cuttings?? I'd be happy to send postage up front or find you a suitable trade.
Thanks!
Michele
Who has my sun coleus and sweet potato vines? LOL
sweet potato vines...that weed?? you want that weed??! if you insist..stupid stuff took over my flowerbed...making 'tators big as footballs last summer, talk about invasive.. :-)
That was my experience too Lisa! Six years ago I planted a couple of little plants and had wheelborrows full of 'taters!! So now I only plant them in containers. Interesting thing went on this winter in a couple of the large containers.......somebody was snacking on them....you could see the teeth marks and every time I'd cover them up, someone or something would come back and uncover them for another few bites. Don't even know which varieties they thought tasted better than others, guess I'll have to wait til the come back to see. :-)
LMBO! Please, please, mail me your footballs!! Okay, I'll settle for baseballs or even cuttings. :) Okay, look at your zone and look at mine! You two are not playing fair and you are even hitting below the belt! I did try to winter them over one year but they were serious magnets for flying plant eating critters and web making ones too. I swore after that I would only keep taters. I didn't get any taters last year. SO, can I have your weeds for postage or trade? hahahaha
Badseed, I love to read your postings because they are so cute!!! If I had tater, I would send you some, but I don't....... (also don't want any)
Judy
But Judy, they are so pretty planted under ears and with the sun coleus and in window boxes and in hanging baskets....guess I can't convert you? LOL
I also started a thread in the plant trade forum for ears. Do to all my fall responsibilities, I neglected to properly store my ears. I'd love to do a big trade with a couple of people for the sun coleus, sweet potato vines, and ears for my ponds as well. I lost my fontanesii (sp), black magic, illustris, rubrum, etc.
Chele,
I was the one! You sent me a mess of coleus and they have done wonderfully. I have taken many clippings and started them and shared already. I don't think I got any tater vines from you, but hey, I'm like the rest of the ladies here in the south, I have them everywhere. Mostly Margarite and a bit of the black. I think the pink/green variagated got smothered by the yellow.
I know you had some offers above, so do you still need more? You know I am happy to send them. Also, for the coleus, if you want to wait on shipping until its a little warmer, I can go ahead and start rooting them for you.
LMK
Molly
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LOL Molly! The way you posted that makes you sound guilty! LOL I was happy to share them with you and would do it again any time. :) I'd love to have whatever you want to share. I plan on rooting them a bunch and planting them EVERYWHERE! I truly love all those neat foliage plants. They make great fillers between the perennials when they poof out. I think our weather is supposed to hold out for the next week or so. I know it would be cheaper and easier to mail cuttings and that is fine with me. Let me know what I can send you. I really appreciate you offering to share!
Chele,
I am so happy to give to others. You helped me rebuild my garden and I'd like to help you back. That's what we are here for. Oh yeah and I think I shall give you a clipping of one Happy_1 gave me, her worlds record coleus. (I saw the certificate from Guiness Book)
If your weather holds out for the next week, I can ship on Monday if that sounds good to you. Just give me the latest weather report on Sunday if you have the time and we'll use our best judgement.
Molly
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Not guilty Chele, grateful is the word.
I want to come back and post here. Not only did I get one box, but I got two! One box was nothing but ten feet or so of green sweet potato vines, like a garbage bag full! The other box was all kinds of sun coleus and a ton of surprises. I was shocked when I saw that I had two boxes. I laughed really hard when I opened the first box and had nearly miles of sweet potato vines. Then I opened the second box to find like 13 kinds of sun coleus, tri-color sage, bronze fennel, black and tri-color sweet potato vines, soapwort, a sneaky piece of wandering jew (I think) and...gosh! I hope I remembered to list everything! I stood there pulling plants out of the boxes, one after another, tears welled up in my eyes and my husband looking at me like I was nuts. I told him 'all she wants back is some sedums'. Yeah, so I am a happy nut and thankful for my friends here. :)
It took me nearly 3 hours to cut it all up and pot it all up for rooting. I rooted every single piece! I almost forgot to go pick my kids up from choir practice. LOL I had to pick them up and run to the grocery with pizza sauce on my arm from the baby, not to mention I had on an old sweatshirt with paint on it, mud and creasote stains on my jeans, my hair a wreck, my glasses on and no makeup. He he he Hey, all is well that ends well. :)
THANK YOU MY FRIEND!
And don't I have tears myself now. You are the sweetest Chele. I am so pleased you like everything.
Oh my, I think I forgot to mark the Guiness Book coleus.....or did I?
My little friend Cassidy helped me package everything up. She's a little girl after my gardening heart. I'm getting her a namesake Daylily.
Love ya Michele
Molly
I would love to have some sweet potato vine if anyone else would like to eradicate some! LOL! I can't seem to find it around here (SE PA)- I have especially been looking for the black and chartruse (maybe I am just not looking in the right places - If anyone knows a retailer LMK!) I don't have alot to trade for yet (I will have some stonecrop- I think Summer joy? the purple one and some yellow sedum later.) I have seeds but am just now testing the batches to see if what I saved will germinate.
Heather
Hi Heather,
I will have more than enough to share but I will have to wait until they root now. I chopped them all down into small pieces.
Heather,
I got my first sweet tater vine as a hitchhiker in a pot of something else I bought from a local nursery. It was the chartuese. Then one of my customers gave me a few clippings and they took right off. Is the purple sedum you have "Purple Emperor"?
I was pulling the vines away to make room for some black hollyhocks. This stuff is a monster down here. I pulled it up and what I didn't ship out, I just threw over in the other patch by the fence. It wasn't fazed a bit. It just acted like it never moved.
It's getting warm in Ohio, I hear, is it getting warm in PA. too?
Molly
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Molly,
Thanks for the mention....Check your mail.
Nancy Lee
I'm so sorry Molly! I forgot to say that you DID mark it and also where it came from. :)
Please tell Cassidy that she did a marvelous job packing and that I am thrilled with my plants.
Nancy, I saw that and I'm about to go back over there and spend some time. Thanks for sending the link.
Chele, I certainly will tell Cassidy. She will be very pleased to hear that.
Molly
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MollyMc ---Purple sedum-- I have no idea of the cultivator- a friend gave it to me-- it looks like Autum Joy but it is light purple- lavenderish-- I have a pot FULL of it and some around my pond. It is just starting to peak up thru the ground so I have to give it some time yet but it survives great here. I have a couple differnt kinds of sedum I haven't listed yet- and I have inherited my grandfaters plants too so I have a few of those to get cuttings from and list at some point
It is finally starting to warm up a bit here -- I am 20 minutes from Philly and we're in the 40's now we have gotten as high as 55+ a couple times but invariably we have one really NICE day and then a day where it rains and is COLD (30 ish) but the bulbs are pushing up bud, are swelling, my pond just thatwed (small pond!) and the lilly of the vally is starting to come up.
I plan if I get hold of some to keep it contained in a large pot sitting on the ledge of my pond along with Clivia growing up a trellis behind and iris, lotus and elephant ear in the water... ahhh I can hear the water trickling now...
Heather
(who can't WAIT for summer)
Lucky you Badseed. I knew you were a sweetie patoootie, Molly! Can't wait to meet yah! Only 5 more sleeps!
:) Donna