Now they are saying it won't freeze just get 35-39 at night for a couple nights. I think the plants can handle that since all the rain, and it warms up during the day. Yeah!
I will have loads of Larkspur it looks like. I have potted a bunch and the patch that is still there seems to get wider.
Sharon I am sorry you aren't coming. Hopefully you can make the Statewide RU at the end of April.
DFW Iris Garden Tour / Swap Combination
Shelia Dave mail me with what you might like _ I would love a larkspur...
Sylvia - everything here is still under water... alll my beds are in standing water - I need some warm days not these cool days coming to clear up just a little of this water... I lost 4 land scaping timbers in the water somwhere they used to hold a raised bed! most of the raised bed is still here but one of the bigger bushes in the bed is flat on the side (bush was there for 4 years!) dont like that much rain at most...
Mitch check your inbox. I have Larkspur for all I think. LOL!
Sorry you are so wet there. We had about 5 inches but since it was over a couple of days it didn't flood except at the east end of the yard this time. June two years ago was a different story. I can definatinately sympathize with the people like you that are going through that now. The plants surprisingly bounced back, the DH's shop was another story. Hopefully the wind will help dry out a bit too.
I hope so - dont you love the way plants just grow even with all the things we do to them? Got to love growing plants...
Each day I come home from work something has bloomed or put on leaves, etc. I will be so glad when I retire and be able to take time to watch some of that growing in the mornings!
Got a wind fall today on a lot of things. A garden center is closing its doors.
Garden seeds bulk 10 jars full.
Sheep manure 43 bags.
Land scape growers mix 20 bags
Weed killer 5 bottles
Tomato and pepper Set 4 bottles
Spider and mite spray 4 bottles
20-10-5 fertilizer 10 lbs
Cow manure 30 bags
Knat and mosquito control 10 lbs.
Lots of pots
All for a little over 100.00
Going back tomorrow and buy some shrubs. Tulip tree and Forsythia half price.
Lots to trade. LOL
oh how i wish i had some of that poop.
"Oh how I wish I had some of that poop."
Ya read things on this forum that ya might not ever read nowhere else....
Potted up some iris:
Crimson King (really a deep purple IB, introduced 1898)
Iris albicans, the graceful pure white "cemetary iris"
Sherwin Wright, yellow IB from 1915
& some more
red yarrow
Shasta daisies
Oops, just got corrected:
the yellow iris is Imperial Gold.
sounds better, doesn't it?
I have the Imperical Gold ones from a trade in OK - they are stuning flowers - you can see them from across the yard. I have tons of the albicans Iris too - love the way ti just fills in the little dry places in the yard here and there...
Do you have a pic of Crimson King? I have several of the bitones older purple ones is this one all one color of dark purple? If so if you would like to swap some bitoned for the deep purple? (the bitones have a name that slips my brain at the moment but will get it to you)
Sylviatexas I can trade for fome Iris with some poop. LOL
By the way I have some garden vegie seed if anyone wants some.
Radish Cherry Bell
Okra CL Spine
Okra Long Green Pod
Garden Bean Roma II
Pinto Bean
Bean Top Crop
Garden Bean DWF Hort
Corn Kandy
Pea Black Eye California
Pea Black Eye
Pea Cowpea
Mustard India
Lima Bean Henderson
White Bean unknown
Lettuce Leaf
Squash-Prolific Strtneck
Turnip Burpie Top
Mitch, I have some pics, can't find 'em right now.
I listed some on ebay, just to see what would happen (so far...nuthin').
I'll try to find the pics.
Meanwhile, sure I'd like to trade for some bi-tones.
How many of these would you like?
They just *keep* popping!
Uh, Ted...what kind of poop?
I'll be happy to bring you some iris!
Mitch, try this link:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/iris/hpgal03113132957.html?1
Deal - I have a group blooming right now, with how fast they spread 2 fans for 2 fans sound fair?
Ted - I would love some Okra, Black Eyed Pea, and Corn.... I am out of all my seeds - maybe I can find something else for you.
Mitch have two kinds of okra and two kinds of black eyed peas. Will give you some of both.
Sheep and cow manure
Thanks - trying to get my veggies in order out there... anyone else reallllllllllyyyyyy excited?
Iris for poop:
Where else would I find such a deal!
If that stuff is in some bag or container that won't leave a fragrance in my car, please bring some. I'm thinking sheep would be less fragrant/less hot than cow?
I'll bring the irises!
Yes, Mitch, I'll be happy to trade 2 for 2:
I wish more of them were blooming, now that I know I have a 3rd kind of historic.
Funny story:
This afternoon I espied a poor innocent gardener working in his flowers. So I stopped & told him how pretty they were & asked him if he liked plant swaps.
& he said, "don't know, never been to one...but I'm going to one Saturday at Bobbie's."
There'll be lots of internet gardeners, & lots more as well!
Yay!
I nabbed my sons sitter!! She is coming - never been to a swap, does not even really garden much but loves to!! Soooooooo get ready for the newbie I am trying to get the bug into!
I gave printed directions to the lady at the Post Office this morning.
She & I already traded some cannas (we got to talking when I mailed cannas to one of those foreign, alien, exotic places, like New Jersey, where cannas are treasured!)
Too bad we didn't think of a competition or contest earlier:
"Who can bring the least likely person to the swap/tour?
the person from the greatest distance?
the person newest to gardening?"
Maybe we can do it next time.
Have a prize.
sack of sheep doody or sumpn...
This is going to be a nice big swap! And such Iris to see - going to be a great day!
I am going to bring extra lanata cuttings - would Dames Rocket if anyone wants a little, not going to dig any up if I dont hear something there... ummm and some DLs for sure. I have white yarrow if anyone is interested there too... and I will see what else I can dig up when I get out there Sat morn!
Veggie tray - sooo forgot until I read down this list today!! Good thing I double checked.
Mitch
pampas grass anyone?
I have 2 pots of it, plants are probably about 24" tall.
& I started to divide some variegated liriope & realized that there are about 7 or 8 individual plants, so I put it in a pot for the swap as well!
forgot to add:
I'll bring some some red/purple Louisiana irises.
& if anyone has dianthus (pinks), I'd love to trade.
Bobbie asked me to add that she's interested in phlox.
oooohhhhh can I get one of the pampas!!!!
Are you wanting to have the pinks that are annual? I have a 6 pack I can get ready for you from WM... if you are interested in the annuals. LMK Mitch
will mark your name on a pampas grass, mitch!
No no no no no, do not go to the place whose name I shall not speak & spend your money.
I don't actually *need* pinks or have to have them.
I just am becoming more appreciative of them.
The dianthus I have now are evergreen perennials, & I can't remember where they came from.
Select Seeds catalog has dianthus (for $5.95 *each*!),
& they just describe them as "fragrant flowers".
not perennials, or evergreen, or trash that you have to clear out at the end of the season...
They do have 2 kinds of seeds, "dianthus superbus" & "Sweet Williams". but again, that's all they say!
(Does anyone else always have to stop to realize that it's suberb-us & not super-bus???)
I've read that pinks are supposed to be easy to propagate.
You just cut them back in the autumn & stick the clippings in soil.
So I can try that.
Also, I can use flowering vines for an arbor.
I had hyacinth bean last year & really enjoyed it, but I forgot to collect the seeds.
Anything flowery & easy will work.
I will look and see what I can drum up... let me think on that one.
Would you like a baby Wisteria? I have one just comign up and would stay on your arbor for years to come! I wish I would have known you would have liked some Hbeans - I just turnned a whole huge bag down last week!
Sylvia, I have about a dozen Hbeans that I will bring for you. Also when I went to check those, I realize I have other seeds to trade, and haven't put any plants down yet. Yall let me know what you want, because I may not bring everything because of all the Larkspur I have ready to go.
Seeds:
Red or Pink Opium poppy
Shasta Daisy
Larkspur (also bringing plants)
Red Hot Poker
Datura (single white)
Yellow Flag Iris (I have it in my pond)
Purple Majesty Millet (first year for this)
Plants:
Larkspur for (potted) - for everyone
Obedient Plant (invasive) Purple bloom (6 starts)
Oxalis Wood Sorrel (6 starts)
Double Amaryllis, St. Joseph's Lily (2 starts)
Various cacti plants:
African Milk Tree (1)
Klein's Pencil Cactus(2)
Round unknown (lots)
Fishbone (3) -1 for Ted
Agava (1 sm)
Bog / Water plants:
Varigated Sweet Flag (2)
Horsetail Rush (1 start)
Misc
Plant Stands: [HYPERLINK@davesgarden.com]
Various ones (I will bring 3-4 with me)
Peach/green - for Sylvia
Aquatic Soil - for Silverflutter
Koi - Ted
Wants:
Any Hummer & Butterfly plants
Milkweed
Phlox
Texas Star Hibiscus
Mexican Sage
Cat Wisker's
Red Yarrow, Kwanzos & chocolate mint - from Sylvia!
Daylily - from Mitch! (Bringing 4 windows for you!)
Sorry this is so long, I just kept thinking of something else. LOL!
Shelia - I have places for anything cacti wise that you may want to bring but not take home (like the way I put that?) I have a Cat Wiskers I can take cuttings from for you - Maggiemoo says they root really easy.
Very wisely worded! LOL! Will bring you starts of a few smaller ones for sure, and I would love to have the Cat's Wisker cutting. Would it root in water or RH and dirt?
Oh, did you find a home for your chair yet, if not I will take it. I plan on making a grouping one day of a door, window I have, and headboard for flowering vines and other perennials. The think the chair would fit right in. I have a lot of yard that isn't encorporated in flower beds yet. LOL!
Work calls.....hope others chime in today.
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I will bring the chair!! - I will bring several cuttings of the cat wiskers for you to try both ways. It over wintered with my Brugs outside on all but our coldest days when I brought it in side. Will bring the chair - and the cuttings. I am not 100% sure how to root them but will drop Mary a line and see, I think with RH and Dirt...
Hey Mitch, Bobbie would like the wisteria!
She also is looking for ajuga & some phlox.
There's a lady coming with herbs, medicinal & culinary.
& I gave directions to a Starbucks person last night.
She's also a personal trainer who is exploring her Native American heritage, & she's excited about plants used in medicinal & folk remedies.
This event is RAIN or SHINE!
Bring your umbrellas "just in case".
If it pours down, we'll set up the tent.
I moved a fence this year and had some wild roses climbing on it. Mowed them down and not they are coming back. Small white ones. Will dig some up if anyone wants some.
Have some stonecrop coming up also.
H bean seeds I want a few
I have some seeds for Texas Star Hibiscus
Stonecrop, is it the bigger kind?
I love that!
Ted, do you know if it's "rosa multiflora"?
Multiflora, once used as fencing, became so established/invasive that scientists bred a virus, spread by a mite, to kill the plants.
It seems like it's called Rose Rosette Disease.
Although the wild multiflora is most susceptible, the disease has spread to other roses (many cultivars are multiflora hybrids);
it's destroyed an entire public rose garden north of Dallas.
I had some multiflora.
Although I liked it, especially in the spring, I dug it all out & put the plants in the trash rather than even trying to compost them.
so I hope your wild roses are another kind!
Will try to bring it!
I not know. I have had it on the fence for four years and it did not spread. Of course I kept it trimed a bit so it could not knag me every time I tried to mow up close to the fence.
Just chatted with Sylvia yesterday and for any of you that are on the fence about going....GO!!!!
Bobbie is an extremely interesting and intelligent person. You will love just visiting with her.
Her gardens are massive.
I lurk here often and am still trying to find home after GW.
The weather is great and temps could not be better.
Sylvia, I am trying to come it is just day by day right now......
All I will have is Brug cuttings. I could bring any amounts of just pain day lilies though.
Getting to see Vanessa and Adeline WOW it has been a while.
I could also bring Rose Cuttings, not rooted 50+ varieties.
Will try to make it if not enjoy and you'all have a great time.
Karen.
Hey there Karen, I hope you can make it. I would love to me another FW gardener. We need more of them!
Will not make it in the morning. Got my granddaughter's ball game to attend at 9 o clock in Louisville. Will get there asap, So don't forget me. LOL
Cocobid I would like some rose cuttings.
Sheila: agave, Variegated sweet flag. Cacti
What time will you be getting down that way any idea more or less?
Will leave Lewsville when the game is over. LOL Dont know how long that takes but it should end in the morning before lunch. Will go stright to the swap.