Looking for names daylilies.
Have: Water Lettuce.
I can trade Wedelia or Melaleuca or water spinach if you are interested. I can add dollar weed if I need to up the ante.
I assume you're referring to it's invasive growth in Florida. Fortunately,
what is invasive here is not invasive in other parts of the country and are welcome summer additions to their gardens. Equally, there are cold weather plants that can be invasive up north but don't stand a chance down here. That being said, I just shipped a box of air potatoes to you with my compliments.
Ahh monkeyballs.
I'll cross ship you a box of em and a garbage can lid. Be prepared for war ;)
I remember they hurt, guava was better ammo.
Anyway Be carefull where you ship as it's banned in quite a few states. Here is our own regulations concerning it.
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/lands/invaspec/3rdlevpgs/watlet.pdf
I thought you were joking, I forget that up nawth they might like our weeds.
Wedelia and Water Spinach are both beautiful plants but they sure have given me a lot of work keeping them away from my yard.
This message was edited Apr 17, 2006 5:08 PM
Nope, I was serious. I just shipped a box to the midwest as he doesn't have the room to overwinter them indoors and his nursery won't get them in for at least another month. I always laugh when people ask for the air potatoes because it's taken me 15 years to get those and the vine with the little orange lantern pods under control. I know we can't bring them in to the state but we can send them out (perhaps the state will pay the shipping) as long as they're not prohibited where they're going. LOL.
BTW, did I tell you I included some sand spurs and hitch hikers in the box?
I'll go dig the Campsis radicans seeds I just tossed away back out of the can and swing by your area and with them gently cupped in my hand I'll give a gentle puff and ....
Just think how popular you will be with the hummers ;)
LOL jumpin in here, I would love some, I am also in a colder climate where they are harder to find except in the bigger towns, I would love a swap, I have daylilys: new note and laugh & sing, if you are interested in starts of them for swap please let me know :)
Laurrie
ps - this thread gave me a chuckle, I guess I never thought they could be invasive, but then again I don't live in sunny Florida either! good points in this thread.
Have a great week everyone!
Hi Laurrie,
I'll D-mail you. I think if we get together and trade each other all the invasives, we'd cut down on a lot of them. LOL. So many northern plants I would love to grow down here but they would never survive. Fortunately, the longer growing season makes up for it.
Jan...
Jan.
I agree, we do push the zones around alot with all this plant trading, but those poor water lettuce would never survive a winter here, they freeze before November here each year, and we usually can't get them around our area until mid summer, by then the poor pond fish, frogs, snails, turtles, well they wish they had some cover!!
Water Hyacinth, now that is another one that is rare here, have any of those??????
Laurrie
ps - replied to your dmail ;)
Hey, Budgie. I do also live in Florida but would love some water lettuce for a new pond I installed recently. I don't have any bodies of open water near enough that they are likely to escape. I have some named variety of supposedly red daylilies (will have to check on the name in my plant tags that have never yet made it to the plants). They seem more orange/rust/ochre to my artist's eye, but maybe they are about as close to red as a daylily can get? They are currently in bloom, so I can send you a pix if you would like to consider a trade.
Alas, OhioB, the beautiful water hyacinth is so despised that it is prohibited from possession in Florida, since it once clogged the waterways so thickly that motor boats had to stop every few feet to clean the beautiful blooms from their propellers. Get rid of the boats and keep the flowers, I say!! (Just kidding).
To commemorate the water hyacinth's near extinction in Florida, I did its portrait in oil paint. I don't think it is yet illegal to possess a painting of a water hyacinth, but that day may not be far off. I called the painting, "Forbidden Beauty."
Budgie, let me know if you want to see a pix of my "red" daylilies.
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy,
Being in Florida, unfortunately, I can't ship them to you but I wanted to let you know that I will be sending your Brunsfelsia and some other "surprises" to you on Monday so be on the lookout.
Jeremy, lovely photo, wow never thought they could be that invasive down there! but it all makes such sense, that hot weather, they probably could take over in an eveing LOL
water hyacinth is illegal here in geaorgia and south carolina. if you get some on your boat motor say and you drive off with it on their and the patrol sees it oh my the 5000.00 fine and year in jail. they just had an article in the paper a few months ago reminding people of its illegality.
i dont know what water lettace is but i know we have plenty of kudzu here. anybody want it?? hehe just joking.
as for the air potatoes i just got some more from a friend on here as it seems they die back in the winter and dont come back. well truth be told my neighbors dog peed on my last ones i had. they dies really quickly.
Imzadi, can I borrow your neighbor's dog? I could keep it well fed with gourmet Iam's dog food for the money I could make hiring it out to pee on air potato vines, and I could certainly use it in my own yard. LOL
Thanks, budgie. I didn't know water lettuce was prohibited from sharing in Florida. I occasionally see it here for sale in local nurseries in their "water plants" sections. Maybe it is not hardy up here where we get a few good freezes below 32 F most winters?
Jeremy
I would love some. I just dug up Prairie Blue Eyes do you need that one?
everything pictured except for my fish beauty is invasive here....happy to share with the northern gardeners
jackieshar what is the 2nd photo on the top row I have that coming up everywhere I know it was something I bought at one time but can't think what it is?
My guess for picture 2 top is Dollar Weed (also known as Pennywort, Hydrocotyl umbellata). It makes a very lovely ground cover -- Just ask any Florida gardener with moist soil. I remain totally free of it in my garden, thanks to fast draining sandy soil and eradication whenever I see it start to appear (usually as "hitchhikers" in potted plants I buy at nurseries).
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1247/index.html
Jeremy
yeah....I call it a lot of different names, some of which I can't repeat here........but I think commonly it is dollar weed or pennywort....it totally takes over the shallow ares in my earthen ponds...it rarely gets a good grip on the soil around the ponds..I see people asking for it here sometimes, and I think they must be mistaken, surely it isnt the pennywort they want............another really invasive is the four leafed water clover, but at least it's pretty and won't grow out into the deeper water, and it does make a pretty ground cover around the ponds