Hello Sylvia, no I wasn't planning on having a cutting potting session at the Swap. I don't think it would be practical, since we would have to bring cuttings, soil, pots, water, etc.
They probably would not survive. I was thinking of us getting together at one of our homes and working together for practice and companionship.
May be we can get that arranged, but I don't think it would work at the Swap.
Do you have any ideas?
Josephine.
DALLAS PLANT SWAP!
Josephine ...I would love it! just let me know when you get it together. maybe you can start a thread to find out who would be interested?
I tried some rooting harmone....I dont know what I did wrong...but I never saw a root.! What is propagation? I sent a buddy in Ireland a piece of my Chinese Fringe to propagate.....no worry about that though .... it already sound too complicated! lol
Sylvia
We will have to think about it and see what would be workable.
Right now with the Swap coming up might not be the right time, may be afterwards.
Do you have Sundays free?
Josephine.
I also have:
chocolate mint (smells just like a peppermint patty!)
1 English ivy.
may have Peace Lily
Josephine if you want to meet up (no tthis sunday I will be out) for a lesson I can go ahead and bring your cuttings over so you dont have to have them all dried out! Almost any other sunday would be great in the afternoon 2ish?
Josephine...I can get a free Sunday after the 24th.
let me know.
Sylvia
Great, let me check with my husband about our schedule for October and we will try to set a date. This will be fun.
Josephine.
Maggiemoo, do you like Purple Shield? I have it in part shade and it does very well. Last winter, I put it in my little greenhouse and it came back this spring. I love it.
Mitch, I would love a start of Vitex, if you have one available.
I don't know what I am going to bring to eat, yet. Will have to give it some thought.
Posie I have a small cutting i can bring ya, nothing rooted at the moment.
Posie, I do have the Purple Shield, it's a nice little plant. With a little protection, it's fine in the ground down here.
(edited to correct spelling boo-boo)
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Oh my! you mean you guys are over wintering Persian Sheild here? should I put mine in the ground now or is it too late. How are you protecting it in the winter?
Sylvia
Sylvia, it sounds like up where you guys are, you need to bring the Persian Sheild in for the winter. Down here, when it's planted in a protected area and mulched, mine has managed to survive fine over the winter. I don't know if that was just a fluke, or the norm down here.
Okay, maggiemoo. I will see if I have anything else good for shade.
Posie, if you have something, that's nice. But I don't need anything in exchange, just hope to meet my northern friends and share what I can.
:-)
Sylvia, I truly don't know if you have to overwinter the Persian Shield - I just didn't want to take any chances and did so. I also have a very pretty plant with it that I wish I knew the name of and wanted to save it, too.
Mitch, a vitex cutting would be wonderful.
Posie my PS was beautiful. I did bring it in for the first freeze ...put it back out and forgot to bring it in the next time ...it probaly would have made it inside. I am going to just save my second bedroom for all my annual this year...even my coleus.
sylvia
Where is everybody???
I'm getting excited about the swap, & about autumn in general.
Even though the temp in this oven we call Texas is still set on "Bake", mornings are coming later, nights are coming earlier, & the Autumn Joy sedum is in bloom!
Yay!
I just talked to a friend, & she has spearmint, passiflora caerulea vine (blue), green/white variegated liriope, jewel of opar, variegated vinca vine (purple) cuttings, Old Blush rose cuttings, & whatever else she can scare up in the garden.
Did I remember to say that I have seeds for white datura (moonflower)?
They're just gorgeous in the moonlight, but don't eat 'em!
Getting geared up here to! To much fun - cannot wait!
I'm looking forward to meeting those of you whom I have not met, and reuniting again with those of you I have. :-)
Terrie
Last call for mini cattails - anyone? I have to split this and if no takers on the pile it goes.
Mini cattails? what are they Mitch?
Sylvia
Just like reg cattails but they only get about 3 ft tall. Nice for a little water area were you dont have room for the biguns!
How cute! save some for me! might get me going to set up a water feature. :)
Sylvia
No prob - will set it aside for ya.
Thanks:)
Well folks, it looks like I won't be able to make this shindig. The price of gas has just sky-rocketed (I'll bet you didn't notice that, huh?), making the trip out of reach for me this month. I tried to find someone to share the ride and gas, but nobody else from this area had been planning on going.
I really hope to get up there to meet you guys within a year.
I'd love some mini-cattails if you still have some:
a "water feature" turns out not to be as difficult as I had thought.
I saw a small water feature that I liked so much that I knocked on the door to ask about it.
The lady told me her husband bought 2 round heavy black rubber "ponds", set them on the ground, & built a box or raised bed around them with landscape timbers.
He filled the ponds with water & filled in the area between the ponds & the wood with soil.
Then she added water plants & fish & planted flowers in the soil areas.
To finish, she added a couple of flagstones to cover the black rubber edges of the pond.
It's so nice: just the right height to sit on the edge & dangle your hand languidly in the water (wearing your big hat & your gauzy tea-length dress!), & the height, about 2', makes it a nice substantial "vertical accent" (so many vertical accents are spindly things).
I hate to hear you won't be here, maggiemoo, but don't give up hope:
Gas prices here peaked at around $3.19, & this morning they were "down" to $2.85.
I'll keep my fingers crossed!
Its yours. Does the passiflora caerulea vine (blue) have roots? I would love on to plant in my new white flower area. Edited to add I also Have Var. Iris and reg Swamp Iris both with a start up for trade. I grow them right in my pond and they do great.
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Mary, Texasgarden is right, the price of gas is going down, and someone may come forward yet.
We shall see how it goes.
Texasgarden, that sounds like a really neat and easy way to build a water feature, sounds very doable and easy.
Thank you for telling us about it.
Josephine.
Oh maggie I sure wish I could meet you halfway or something. :( I think gas is getting cheaper too...wait until you get here to fill up....I think I pay 2.69...full service. ...then again I only fill up every two or three
weeks. ...so I dont pay much attention .... you know I dont go anywhere but to work, home Depot and Lowes. lol
Sylvia
Texasgarden... that pond you describe sound like something out of a Tennesse Williams play. :) I am talking half water barrel here! lol with one of those old fashion pump handles if I can find one ....something really simple ... I can do alone. :(
Mitch I just read your original post .... I know I have been chatting a lot ... sorry...will you be updating prior to the 25th?.... I am worried about what I have to swap. I am trying to root some Coleus and Persian Sheild. Plenty of Sedums and I almost forgot...I got seeds! ...will list tommorrow.
...night, Sylvia
Yes I will update - what sedums do you have Sylvia? If they are the tall ones I would be interested.
Sylvia, you only fill up once every two to three weeks?!?! I fill up once a week, and that's what my budget is built around. I figure two tanks of gas (one up and and down) for a round trip to Veteran's Park. I'll really try to find a way to come up with the money (I could stop eating, I really need to lose weight anyway, lol).
Mary hang in there, the prices are really coming down on gas.
I will update my list also as we get closer to the 25th.
Josephine.
Keep this going it is getting close.
MAGGIE...just get here...you will get back...I promise you!
Hey......did I hear someone say Passiflora? Oh my, what can I trade for that?
Mitch I got three or four kinds of stone crop. lemon lime, the one where the blooms turn red??....darn if I could remember to take pics! ...anyway I have stone crop falling down all over the place.
also I got boo coos of seeds ...some I even bought...seeds intimidate me so...:(
btw....where is this place? How do I get there? ((((?))))
SYLVIA@WORK!
OK Mitch..........Sedum pics
Seed list:
Forget me nots...
Four oclocks
Clemitis sweet autumn..
Amaranthus (celosia plum)
Black eyed susan
Luna Red Hibiscus
Gypsophila
will list the rest when I find them
Other Stuff
1.Night blooming Cereaus cutting(already rooted)
2. Oxzalis tuber
3. Hostas...Marguirite,krossa Regal, Golden Tiara, Variagated Undulata
4. pink Cornflower
5. Trumpet vine shootes
6. Spider plant shootes
7. purple Mexican Petunia
8. Trailing Sedum
9. Scotch Moss
10. Moses in a Boat
11. Cannas
12. Daylilly
13. Mints-Trailing Peppermint,Fruit sensation, Apple, Marshmellow
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