Calif. Roundup-June 25 - Plant trades

Doing the happy frog dance. Thank you soooooo much. I had best keep up with the ammending around here. The "ground" under the front lawn is less than optimal for much but bermuda-which I think I have about killed. Removed a lot of "natural stone."
take care
Janice

I know the soils in your area. They are loaded with those 'cobbles' that have many names, most of which cannot be repeated here.

*Note to all traders, we produce huge amounts of vermicompost and are willing to share a bag or ten. If you need a large quantity, bring a truck and contact me by email.

best,
Don

btw...I really want to see this froggy happy dance and wonder if it helps you pick fruit high up in trees or assists in difficult high pruning...Iol. I need a froggy happy dance if it does.

I have teenagers for that! Lol!

rotf...

I wish I could get horses to learn to use pruning shears....It would make life a lot easier...lol.

Now there is a picture I would pay to see.

lol, I'm still working on getting my doggies to sign their names. The best I've gotten so far is Kuki making a nose print with ink...lol. I'll work on the horse thing when I retire from retirement.

Wisteria sinensis... goodie!
*Doing a happy dance* (frogs not involved)

hiya dovey,

I read your thread on the topic and have been nurturing a Cooke's Purple Wisteria sinensis for over a year trying to find a spot for it...I knew I had found one when I saw your thread. It is in a 15gal nursery can/pot and is well rooted, has been in the full/blazing sun and is doing well. I am also interested in one of your Kahili Ginger rhizomes if there are any left.

best,
Don

Don,
There is Kahili Ginger with your name on it.

Did you read my wisteria serial killer post?
(And you're still willing to trust me alone with wisteria)
I have a beautiful iron arbor with a gothic look. I can just see wisteria growing over it. Flowers in the spring and the twisted, leafless branches in the winter.
Thank you so much.
Dovey

hiya dovey,

Yes I read the post and immediately began 'bulletproofing'...lol, the Wisteria. I'm sure where you'll be putting it will be marvellous. You have a great eye for such things. I'm very excited about the ginger...woohoo! The brothers and sister of this plant are now climbing gleefully up three posts in our backyard pergola, My vision was to have the flowers hang through the structure much like the Wisteria tunnel at Sherman Gardens and Library in Corona Del Mar/ Newport Beach.

I was actually going to give it to you last weekend so you didn't have to lug it along with your other treasures at the roundup.

take care,
Don

Don, please put me down for Salvia apiana. Thank you very much.

Dovey, I want pictures of that wisteria on the arbor -- sounds lovely!

One White Sage seedling promised to kaperc.

Enjoy!

Best,
Don

Don,
I hear you have a new baby girl, congratulations!
I'm so sorry I didn't stop by like I promised...
I'm such a recluse at times it's unforgivable.

hiya dovey,

Yes were are the very proud parents of a new filly. Her name is Danika, and she's a pistol. Tomorrow is her first day out of the stall so we are going to take a bundle of pics of her to share.

As far as forgiveness....not a problem at all. We were looking forward to your visit, yet we both understand how life gets in the way of things. No worries here.

Danika is named for the woman driver that did so well in the Indianapolis 500 race on Sunday...she was born later that night. Her name means Morning Flower in Scandinavian languages. Her name had to start with a D, because her father's name is a D. It's a Hanoverian thing...lol.

As always, you are always welcome here.

best,
Don

Is anyone interested in Erythrina seedlings, or crotalaria? I have a number of different kinds, I will bring a selection and some grasses in six packs and some heteromeles arbutifolia in 4.5 inch. How do the seeds work?

hiya Chuck,

I'm interested in E. coralloides and E. crista-galli, but mostly in E. flabelliformis. A Toyon?, I'm a huge fan from my college summer days on Catalina. Are you growing any Madrone? I don't know if you'll be interested in my rather pedestrian selection, but I'd love to trade for an Erythrina flabelliformis if your growing that one.

Best,
Don

Chuck,

Would love some toyon, and a discussion with you on how to propagate!

Kathleen

I will check, they are all done with numbers, so I do not know which ones are which without looking at the spread sheet. But I will bring some. I have been setting up an area to automatic water all the seedlings and filling as many flats as I can from the forest humus pile I have on my neighbor's lot, both projects are almost done. My neighbor is getting ready to build his house, so I have to move everything I have on his lot off his lot, down a fairly steep hill, so I am very behind. I will pot them up in the 4.5 inch pots in the next few days and then figure out what to do and bring. The toyon, I will bring a flat, 15 plants per flat. Some look great, though small, some of the others have a way to go. I do not know what I want, probably not much, as the seed thing turned out to be much bigger than I ever thought it would be, plus the stuff I already had that needs to be planted, and caring for what is there, which is not particularly low maintenance.

Propagating toyon: I do not know, I just bought a tray of seedlings from Seedlink and then moved them. Heavy casualties along the way. They were sown solid in a 10x20 tray and the roots were difficult to separate. I just did it out in the open. Out of a thousand seedlings, I think I got about 250 to take. I am not sure what I am going to do with them when they grow up. I am hoping that I can get CNPS, local chapter to take some of them for their fall sale, and maybe some for the HOA, some for my office buildings, but if the ones that survived continue to do well, there will still be a lot left over. May be the city of AG might take some. I want to get them to look good first before approaching anyone. I didn't do this to make money, just for the fun of it and the challenge.

I got some Jatropha multifida liners and upsized them to one gallons, but they haven't leafed out yet, though they are still alive and have plump stems. I might bring a few of those if they come out.

Drdom....my DD's best friend in high school was named Danika...you don't hear it too often in the USA....

Here goes...my seed list for the taking: Notice no Latin names!)

Prickley Poppy....3
Calif. Poppy 3
Fish Hook Cactus 3

GOURDS:

Bottle.....................3
Lrg. Basket plenty
Dipper 5
Kettle 3
Louffa 4 (Hanna1)
Buffalo or Coyote....plenty
Basket 3
Lrg Bottle 4
Swan 5 (Naien)
Chinese Bottle 4 (Naien)

Since I will be flying I will not have any live plants...heck...I wouldn't have any even if I were walking! LOL YES! I have my broom all shined up. Jo

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roadrunner: i would like some swan gourds seeds and some chinese bottle gourd seeds. my trades are listed above.

Roadrunner, gourd seeds would be great, Like Louffa, and others, I'm not familiar, but I do want to try, I will look thru my seeds, since coming from Northern Ca, and will be gone a week, I don't think I should bring anything live!
Annie

Darn! Sounds like a fun time, You guys are just too far away from me. Maybe we need to have a No. CA swap?

Chuck, that's okay -- if you have any toyon orphans left I'll give them a good home. I wish I had something you might like. I'm trying to layer a penstemon 'Margarita BOP' but don't know if it will take and time is short now. I can't seem to catch my salvia seeds at the right time, either. Oh, well, it's the first year, so I guess I'm being a bit impatient.

Kathleen

Penstemons do not do well for me for some unknown reason. I think I am going to get a bunch of seed this winter and try that. If you plant enough of them one or more should grow. I had to move everything off the top of hill on my neighbor's lot, but that is now done. I will bring a couple of trays of toyon and see what happens.

Who wants this one? Sun Fuschia with black eyed beauty calla along for the ride. I am not sure how this happened lol.

Rusty 56. . . Just checked out your Furcraea selloa var. marginata in the plant files and would be delighted to have one if you still have them. TIA ;-janet

I have or started with seeds of the following coral trees. Low numbers have been germinated, high numbers haven't been started yet. I lost a lot to damping off and other fungi in the filter paper stage. I figured out with Dave's help how to solve that problem, so I am pretty confident I can germinate them all, reordering the ones that were a bust. Sandeman is pretty generous with the seeds, so I have plenty of them. B&T, it depends. Silverhill was in the middle. Banana Tree was skimpy, but then if you get good germination you only need a few. I do not know what has germinated as it is all done by numbers and most of the coral trees look the same. Before I come I will pick out some of the best looking ones and bring them, properly labelled.



43 Erythirina lysistemon Soak H2O Silverhill
29 Erythrina abyssinica Soak H2O Sandeman
44 Erythrina amazonica Soak H2O
414 Erythrina amazonica Soak & nick regular B&T Seeds
45 Erythrina berteroana Soak H2O
35 Erythrina caffra Soak H2O Silverhill
32 Erythrina corallodendron Soak H2O Sandeman
34 Erythrina coralloides Soak H2O
416 Erythrina flabelliformis Soak & nick B&T Seeds
31 Erythrina fusca Soak H2O
40 Erythrina humeana Soak H2O Silverhill
38 Erythrina indica Soak H2O Sandeman
42 Erythrina latissima Soak H2O Silverhill
37 Erythrina poeppigiana Soak H2O
421 Erythrina sandwichensis Soak 7 nick B&T Seeds
30 Erythrina smithiana Soak H2O
36 Erythrina Speciosa Soak H2O Sandeman
418 Erythrina speciosa v. rosea Soak & Nick B&T Seeds
33 Erythrina stricta Soak H2O Sandeman

I restate my interest in E. flabelliformis if you think they can travel Chuck. That's a pretty impressive list. E. lysistemmon seed has a great deal of history in that the Mayans used them in burial rituals and the seeds were considered protective from Mayan boogiemen.

The balance of the packages of the seeds I already started are in the fridge at the office. I will check there and see what is available tomorrow. I was going to soak Flabelliformis tonight and put it on paper tomorrow night. They germinate pretty fast and grow fast if at all. There must be 30 or 40 coral tree seedlings around in the various places.

The reason I didn't do cristi-galli is that I had three of those already and they are doing fine. Just gettting ready to bloom. I wonder if they will set seed this year and if it will come true. Could be interesting.

I gathered some yucca whippeli last summer and it germinated pretty well.

When I first started doing the seed thing in Jan/Feb I didn't really do a database, just did paper spread sheets, which were a pain. Now the little stickon numbered labels work great and there is no confusion.

Washing the coral tree seeds in a weak clorox solution, soaking them in hot water and then nicking them and putting them on filter paper dampened with chamomile tea half-strength seems to have solved the fungus problem.

There are 11 E. flabeliformis seeds. I will soak them tonight, plant them tomorrow night, shud be up by Friday or Saturday. I think I will do 6 and see what happens.

I was just going for as many of the coral trees as I could find. E. flabelliformis looks like a great one! Should do well here and in your area, since it is practically a native. The red color is strong and it doesn't get very big.

I will be bringing seeds and possibly some C&S's, not sure yet, I need to go thru my stashes and see what, LOL, I'm interested in many I see posted above!!!!! Hope you all will have extras!!! Can't wait to see all of you, I was raised in Anaheim thru my teens, and lived in different places all through Orange County until 3 years ago!!!!!
Annie

We have 4 or 5 fairly good sized Sago pups from last year that should sprout their first set of leaves soon (ya' have to be patient with these guys). I'll pot them up if someone is interested. Right now they are just hanging out in the nursery looking over this year's crop. Mom is about 5 feet tall and keeps 'em coming. If I get a chance today I'll go out and take a picture.

What we're looking for is larger bamboo strains and other tropicals/exotics if anyone's raising any rain forests out there.

Dave & Tammie

I do have bamboo, but not sure what kind they are, only problem is we'll be on the road! Maybe I can mail some, let me know!
Annie

Papaya seedlings are ready for adoption. This is the Medool or Mexican variety which is quite large and flavorful. It appears I have more than I had originally thought would be ready.

Hi Hannah. . .long time no talk. Now we'll be able to meet in person finally. Just curious, or just slow today (probably the latter, LOL) but what are C&S's? Looking forward to seeing ya at the RU.

;-Janet

I'd love any bamboo actually. If you could easily mail some, I'd be thrilled.

Thanks,

Dave

jcangemi, C&S, Cactus and Succulents! Over 280 now!!!!!! I most likely could bring some Cactus dry and Succulents wrapped in moist papertowels in a box. We're starting our trip on the Saturday prior,
Annie

Gotcha! They should be fine, not too wet though, don't want em to rot before we get our hand on em. . .LOL If it's fresh pieces you're breaking off, if won't hurt to just wrap them in dry newspaper and open them up when you get there. The 5 or 6 days will give them a chance to callous over and maybe start sending out some roots. That is if they're 'fleshy'. Might not work for everything you have in mind bringing.

Have a safe trip and see you there. 8-) janet

Anyone want some white, yellow and sweet onions? I have tooo many of those if you need..

I grew onions in my gardens.

Sorry I check it out and I dont have sweet onions. My mistakes.

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