I am raring to go and wish spring would hurry up and get here! Since I have lots of landscaping plans for the summer, I am trying to get my trading planned and completed in early spring. It's a little too soon to be digging, so hence the planning part! I expect to be able to start shipping by the end of April.
These are some of the things I have to share:
• Artemisia - Oriental Limelight
• Aster - Heath (woody w/ profuse small white flowers)
• Bellflower - Clustered (blooms purple)
• Campanula - Cherry Bells look-a-like
• Candy Lily - Park's assorted
• Catmint - tall
• Dianthus - assorted colors (perennial here in z5)
• Forget-me-nots - Blue
• Foxglove - Camelot Cream and Camelot Ivory
• Globe Thistle
• Grass - Elijah Blue
• Hibiscus - Southern Belle
• Hollyhock - Summer Carnival (may act like an annual depending on zone)
• Hosta - Lancifolia
• Ice Plant - Mesa Verde
• Lupine - Tutti Frutti
• Malva - Mystic Merlin
• Salvia - Rose Queen (perennial)
• Sedum - Creeping sarmentosum (stringy stonecrop)
• Sedum - variegated
• Sidalcea - Party Girl
• Spiderwort - hot pink (spreads rapidly)
• Strawberries - Mignonette
• Sweet William
• Tall Phlox seedlings
• Verbascum Southern Charm
• Yarrow - Pink
Here are some things that I am looking for:
• Blue-eyed grass - Lucerne
• Dwarf Balloon Flower (doubles are nice)
• Echinacea - Kim's Knee High
• Echinacea - Razzmatazz
• Heuchera - Lime Ricky (try me on others)
• Lobelia - Monet Moment
• Malva - Marina
• Oriental Lilies
• Painted Ferns - Silver Falls, Ursula's Red
• Penstemons
• Phlox - named varieties, esp. blues or w/ variegated foliage
• Rose - Bibi Maizoon
• Sedum - Bon Bon
• Tiarellas - Crow Feather, Iron Butterfly, and Heronswood Mist (but am open to others, try me!)
• Thymes - especially "Silver Posie"
• Variegated Plants! Try me!
• Verbascum "Summer Sorbet" or others, I love verbascum!
I'm really looking for perennials in shades of blue, pink, and purple that I don't have. Variegated foliage always a plus. Also looking for thymes, tiarellas, perennial grasses, anything highly scented, shade tolerant, and of course, always needing more oriental lilies.
HAVE: Lining Up Spring Trades, Lots of Perennials!
hello lilac. i have gulf coast penstemon. i would like your hot pink spiderwort. thanks. barb
Are you interested in Daylilies?I have several Daylilies in several colors if you are interested.
I am interested in the following -
• Catmint - tall
• Ice Plant - Mesa Verde
• Yarrow - Pink
Mamajack, I would love some but unfortunately, they are not hardy here in zone 5. Darn!
MitchF, call me crazy but I have fallen out of love with daylilies. I rushed to collect them for 2 years solid, and now I'm just kind of "eh" about them. Plus the fact that only dormant ones do well up here.
I really dislike being so far north sometimes! :)
Hello Lilac,
It's far too early here in Maine too but I would love some of your:
Campanula - Cherry Bells look-a-like
I don't know how much of things I will have out there but if you hold me a Cherry Bells I'm SURE I will find SOMETHING you will like.
I have dwarf balloons, double blue balloons, a pretty blue woodland phlox, what I believe to be October Daphne Sedum and many others. I just don't know HOW MUCH of these things I will have. The ground is still frozen here.
Here is a link to some of the photos of my plants last year. I hope to be adding much more after my first winter sowing experience. *lol*
http://www.jakesplace.biz/kimskreations/TEMPLATES/KimsKountryTemplate.htm
Thank you for your consideration,
Kim
I would love several of your flowers. I don't have much to trade. I have burgandy bee balm, scarlet bee balm, scarlet honeysuckle, Lamium(Orchid Frost), creeping thyme, and old fashioned lavender garden phlox, honesty plant, coreopsis(lance leaf), blue bachelor button seedlings, blanket flower and shasta daisies. I will be posting some painted welcome slates for trade this weekend. Maybe I could make a special one for you in trade for some plants????? Lou
Hello. I don't have much to trade either, although I do have an unplumbed box from Brent & Becky that got here too late to plant. What I'm dying for are your Ice Plants!!! I have a hillside that requires a chiropractor standing by for my husband when he mows it; it's that steep. I've read a lot about Delosperma - I'm not going to be abl to water these things when it gets really hot - and mesa verde is my favorite of the available colors. PLMK if you think we can trade!
xxxxxxx, Carrie
Kim, Lou, and Carrie, I am sure we can work something out, please D-mail me and we can iron out the details.
Carrie, I'm afraid I would only have 1 or 2 trades of the iceplant for trade but if you are still interested, we can definitely chat further. Have you thought of annuals in the way of portaluca or Livingstone Daisy? Both are almost succulent in their thriving in dry conditions and they sprawl nicely. I started the L.D. as seeds and they are growing like weeds, itching to get into the ground!
well lilac how about some of our wild blue with yellow what do you call them (anthers?) spiderwort?
Hi Lilac, I'd like some Rose Queen salvia and artemisia but I'm not sure yet what I have for you to trade. We just closed on two acres next to us, and there are all kinds of wonderful looking things growing on it (amid the tons -truly-of trash from people who lived there some years ago - scary). Yesterday I spotted a really pretty varigated vine/ground cover, lhosta, vinca minor, and some pretty thing with pendulous yellow flowers. Everything has been growing wild for at least 4 years. It's terrible rain again today, so no wandering around it now. I do have California Bay Laurel seedlings for sure.
Thank you, Laura
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Please e-mail me!
The campanula, lupines, foxgloves, bellflower, and ice plant have all been spoken for.
i planted some seeds of chamois hollyhock. i got the seeds from an ebay seller. the hollyhock are about 1-2 inches tall now. would you trade the hot pink spiderwort for this plant? i am persistent. hahaha but i won't bother you again if these don't interest you. our planting zones are too different. thanks for considering all my offers. barbara allison
Mamajack, the pink spiderwort spreads so quickly, let me do this, since the trade won't be for at least a month yet. What I have left over I can send you for postage, how does that sound?
you are too sweet. could you tell i had my tongue hanging out? i know they are invasive but i like that little plant. and i have never seen a hot pink one. thank you. would you like me to go ahead and send one of those sasbe things? or just money now? or would you really like me to stop being a pest right now and just wait? lol. barb
LOL awwww you're not a pest. But it's snowing here so it won't be for a while. The funny thing about this plant is... every time it spreads, I just lop a big slice off and either trade it or plant it somewhere else. It spreads but it's not a bad thing because it is so pretty!
Oh Yooo Hooo Liliac, I'm hoping the Cherry Bells look alike was put aside for little 'ol me? It's sounding more and more like maybe I need a little slice of the hot pink spiderwort also *lol*. Maybe we will be able to trade more than 1 thing once we get to thawing and green things start to show up *lol*. Did you check out the Punctata on my link above? Does your Punctata look like mine or is yours more the color of the Cherry Bells? The name on mine is "elizabeth" and she's more cream with pink spots. She set out a bunch of babies last fall so I'm anxious to see if they come back this spring.....hurry up spring.....there's trading to be done *lol*.
Sincerely,
Kim
*edited as it was too early in the morning and my fingers weren't awake"
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Liliac, Does your candy lily survive and return every year? I planted some of those and they never came up. I would love some that return every year. I think they are so darling. If you have enough of them to share maybe we could add a few to my ever expanding list.....I NEED to stop shopping your list *lol*. I know that I will have the wild blue woodland phlox to share which is very pretty and I'm sure I will have others you will be interested in. I NEED for things to start turning green now.....this whole "brown" thing is nasty and the ground being frozen solid is not helping *lol*. Come on Maine.....catch up to everyone!
Kim
Hi Kim, last year was the first year for candy lilies, so we shall see if they returned, right? But I have about a dozen I grew from seed and I started the seed in November under growlights. They are now getting pretty big and I have read that if started early (I think November is early enough, lol), they will bloom first year. These are what I was going to trade. I used to be worried about the size of seed-sown perennials I was trading, until I've seen the size of perennials Bluestone sends!
My campanula IS reserved for you. Now watch the darn thing doesn't come up. It really should, as liberal in making babies as it seems to be. I actually find it a tad invasive here. If I recall, it is darker than yours. But I remember trying to compare it last year between Cherry Bells and Elizabeth, and I opted more for Cherry Bells because it WAS darker than Elizabeth.
And you are welcome to the pink spiderwort as well. Trust me, if I know it like I do, there will be plenty to go around. LOL!
You are so very kind Lilac. I'm trying winter sowing this year and am hoping for some wonderful results as I don't have much out there other than daylilies and am trying to build up some different perennials. I'm doing many kinds of annuals this year for the first time which I'm so excited about.
I can't thank you enough and hope I have enough of everything to share a little of each with you. Come on Spring!
Thank you again,
Kim