July 8th Roundup Trades

DrDon..

I have some Belladonna Amaryills (Naked Lady bulbs) would you like some of those? WHERE is your want list???Wish list??? I also have some criniums that I've been hogging...

Thank you for rooting the salvia.. if you have a chance, can you let me know how to root them.. I have Salvia Hotlips, a red one and a hot pink one.. do they root in water or soil? Thanks..

See ya both soon.

A.

Hi! Janice,

Can you tell me where the HEAD COUNT thread is? I couldn't find it in California Gardening forum. I would like to register properly.

Thanks,

Chuck

Here's the Head count thread Chuck. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/605875/

Donna

Drdon,

Your Geums sound interesting, for I don't think I have them in my succulent garden. Would you consider a start of both the Starkers and Mago Lilli for tubers of all three of the alstroemeria?

Dear frogrus,

Sorry, but I'm primarily looking for plants that don't take much water and don't grow very tall, unless they can snuggle in with roses, iris, clivia, etc. Any other suggestions?

Do you like Euphorbia? I have this little snuggler.

http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/781/index.html

Drdon: what type of willow? If you have lots of Palo Verde, I would love to adopt one.

Gourd: I have these salvias: Pozo Blue, Gracias, and Bee's Bliss http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/plant_lists/California_native_plant_S.htm

If someone can tell me how to take cuttings, I could bring a bucketfull. The scent of the Pozo Blue is heavenly all year and it makes a beautiful display when in flower.

Kathleen

Sherry [wcgypsy] - hi neighbor! The ash trees wouldn't happen to be fraxinus dipetala, or another ash that is a female, would they?

Kathleen

Kaperc,
No, sorry. Not being all that familiar with fraxinus, I have no idea, could be shamel, or any one of the others, but definitely not dipetala. Seedlings from a very large ash that's been here for years, I like them. I think they're pretty, graceful. Grow fast, tough, useful. I like the idea that you're doing all natives, I should have started that way, but was seduced by so many other plants that I love!
Sherry

This message was edited Jun 4, 2006 4:30 AM

hiya ginny,

I'll divide Geum 'Starker's Magnificum' and 'Mango Lili' for you, but it isn't what I would call a classic succulent. It is, however a lovely drought resistant perennial plant known as the Grecian Rose, family: Rosaceae.

hiya Kaperc,

The willow is the Desert Willow 'Chilopsis linareus' [sp?]. It is a beautiful native tree with amazing flowers. All of the plants I've germinated are in band pots, and I'm sure Gourd (the owner of them) would entertain a trade or something as there are a bucketload of the doggone things...lol. Although a forest area of these things mixed with Caesalpinia gilliesii, pulcherimma, and mexicana would be pretty spectacular.

hiya Gourd,

Last year someone(s) left me with about 400 naked lady Belladonna amaryllis bulbs...lol. We planted them out on the road and about half lived....that's way more than I need as these things reproduce like bunny rabbits...lol. I've also got Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips', and I'd be happy to show you the fast way to clone that rascal. I'm doing some really rare blues for you that will be just amazing for contrast. As far as my wants or wishes, heck we've traded enough for you to know that I'm a species plant nut....lol. Dahlias, Lobelias, Salvias, Roses, Peas, Beans, Fuschias, Bromeliads, Orchids, Aroids, Gesneriads, Cactus...lol. Always on the lookout for 'that' plant...lol. send me a dmail and we can chat about some columnars that you might be interested in. How's that Fero patch coming along?

Janice is right you guys, we are expecting a larger turnout than last year, and we'd very much like to know a close number so we can prepare for it. Thanks, don

Nice to hear from you frogsrus. Euphorbia is a favorite of mine, but is what you are offering also called "hens & chickens"? If so, already have it.

I have my seed list, if you want me to start some for you, I would be more than happy to:

Cucumbers:
Parisian Pickle - West Indian Gherkin - National Pickling - Pointsett - Marketmore - Italian Slicer - Sugar Crunch - Boston Pickling - Sumter - Snow's Fancy Pickler - Tendergreen -Greensleeves - Cross Country Pickler - Lemon Cucumber

Peppers:
Aconcagua - Purple Cayenne - Super Long Red Cayenne - Chocolate Beauty Bell - Cali Wonder Bell - Corni Giallo Torro - Topepo Rosso(Sweet Italian Frying) - African Bird - Sweet Banana - Jalapeno - Cubanell

Tomatoes:
Pink Grapefruit - Siletz - Principe Borghese - Tomatillo - Green Zebra - Rutgers - Lemon Boy - Azoychka - Purple Calabas - Brandywine Pink - Brandywine Black - Roma - Beefsteak - Black Cherry - Mr. Stripey

Beans:
Dragons Tongue - Blue Lake - Contender - Tendergreen - Cherokee Yellow Wax - Royal Burgundy - Gator Green - French Filet - Kentuck Wonder Pole

kanita

Antoinette & Drdon

Chilopsis would be wonderful - we have the chitalpa cross and love them. Ditto the Palo Verdes.

I found some cutting instructions on the web and I'm going to try the salvias, though I know there is not much time. Will update the thread later if I'm successful.

Kathleen

Kaperc, how are you?

The Palo Verdes are also Gourds, I just grew them for her.

Kanita!

wow, what a list...and good stuff too.

I'd like a bit of tomatillo, the Lemon Cuke, the Aconcagua and Cubanell chiles if you can spare them....what a treat!

Can't wait to meet you and boy do you grow some cool veggies!

best,
don

Thanks, Drdon. We're fine - adopted another parrot (blue and gold macaw) and a little overwhelmed at the moment.

Kanita, you DO have some interesting things. I'll be interested just to see them. I can tell this roundup will be a feast for the eyes judging by what I'm reading.

Kathleen

drdon - No problem, I'll put some of those aside for you as I have lots and lots. I love the aconcagua peppers and my friend who's coming loves those lemon cukes.

Hens and chicks are sempervivum so I do not think this is the same. It is a pretty common plant though.

Well , I finally got my list together of all of my extras. A few of the items need to be separated, but will do that if anyone wants it. I am not looking for many plants at this time so if you want any of these extras, please just ask....they need to go. lol

Bulbs-
Allium triquetrum
Narcissus
Sparaxis http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/14358/
Gladiolas - unknown colors
Pregnant onion

Brugmansias –
Candida Double White
Golden Lady
Species
French Vanilla

Campanula Kent Bells
Dianthus Pink
Shrimp plant – red
Cerinthe major - blue http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/216/index.html
Impatiens oliveri http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/56556/index.html
Maidenhair Fern
Juncus rush
Lambs Ear
Japanese Blood Grass
Biden
Gallardia – dwarf red/yellow
Cuphea – Firefly http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/63326/
String of Bannanas – Senecio radican

Donna

Plants to give:

Don - Maidenhair fern, bulbs and 2 salvia cuttings
Janice - Alstromeria and ?
Spin - Cerinthe major, sparixis bulbs
Gourd - red shrimp, cerinthe?
wcgypsy - cerinthe?
kaperc - cerinthe?
ginny - Candida Dbl. Wh. Brug
Step_Gem - Candida, GL Brug


Plants to receive:

Don - succulent pieces
Janice - Euphorbia, plectranthus
ginny - alstromeria








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This message was edited Jul 7, 2006 1:11 PM

Ginny, I would love some of your Alstromeria, any or all colors.
Frogrus, could I have a piece of your euphorbia.
Gourd or anyone, I would like a few cuttings of succulents or Aeoniums

Thanks,
Donna

hiya SoCal,

woohooo, what a list!

I've got some Graptopetalums, Aeoniums, and Echeverias you can have cuts from and any other succulents here you like as well.

If I could nab another chunk of Maidenhair from you I'd be grateful as the one you brought last year is doing well and beginning to spread around the bamboos in the little Asian garden. I'd like to put some in down in the rose garden grotto and have it finally become a fern grotto area. Any bulbs you have left over from other trades I'll take to put out in the roadside gardens as I'm slowly converting it from strictly wildflowers to a mix of naturalizing stuff.

Can't wait to see you.

btw....I saw Tasmanian Tiger at Emerisa gardens in Santa Rosa. They had it in their demonstration gardens and had sold the last one they had ready earlier that day.....sorry. It sure is a nice one!

best to you,
don

Don, you may have anything I have to offer. I have plenty of the fern and will bring lots of bulbs also. I also have you down for the 2 salvia cuttings you asked for.

Isn't that Tiger cute? :-) I saw it again at one of my nurseries, so I will pick it up there, thanks anyway.

Donna

Hi!

I'm new here and not really sure how this works. I've got a creeping fig that simply needs to go. I'd been planning on just pulling it out, but I can try trimming it back and potting it if anyone's interested. By July 8th, it should be past the trauma.

Alex

SoCal, I got lots of Aeoniums, will take lots of cuttings of this and other succulents, a couple are in pots rooting too, hopefully they will root.

Frogs, if you have an extra piece of that Euphorbia, I'll give you my dog..lol.. not really, but I would love a piece of that. That is one nice one. I have two that are soft leaved (for lack of a better term) that I can take cuttings of if you would like some. I'm not even sure they root from cuttings, I sure hope they do.

Don,
Got you down for some stuff..

Echium cuttings
two orchids.. don't know a thing about orchids, but they are yours
Criniums
Salvia cuttings

As far as the Desert Willow and Palo Verde, we can share those with others, I just need five of each..I'll take the extra seeds for the Desert Willow. we have an acre with only weeds on it.. the other acre is half weeds and other half, the house and yard..

Well, back to the drawing board.

A.

Hi Alex, nice to see you here. Sounds like you might be coming to our little BBQ. You won't be sorry. :-) Give it a few days and hopefully someone will check in and let you know if their interested in your fig. Please let us know about you coming on the Head Count thread.

Hi A, yes a few would be nice. I'm starting to get a little interested in them and tucking them into some areas around my salvias and low water areas.

Donna

Donna --
Do you still live where I visited? (If yes:) Where is it that you have room for a Palo Verde and a Desert Willow? much less a few?

That ribbing aside, if you have Cerinthe *plants* I would LOVE ONE! I have bought seeds (twice, I think) but either never get them in the ground or fail to pamper them enough to get them sprouted and transplantable.

Blooms and I would really love to give you something(s) from OUR list, pls see above. Just about all are low-water, and smaller than a Chilopsis or Palo Verde... even the Leonotis.

Alex --
If creeping fig is Ficus pumila -- best just to (try to) pull it... people do plant it on purpose, even buy it, but most live to regret it.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/610898/

Sherry --
Oops, I see you have put Blooms and me down for TWO (each) of the S.viridis and C.ruber -- while I meant that one apiece would be TWO off your list. We'll take them off your hands (Blooms has a large lot to play with!) -- but don't earmark the extras if someone else would like one!

~'spin!~
Won't someone please choose something from my list, pretty please?

Good morning Spin,

I think you have me mixed up with another trader above. lol No, I didn't ask for those large trees, just a few Aeoniums. The few small trees I have are plenty for my small garden, as you know.

I will also bring you a few of the Cerinthe. They are still small, but grow pretty fast. Would you still like some of my Sparixis bulbs? You wanted some last year, but couldn't make it to the RU.

I'm not needing much for plants right now, but I would like a small Passiflora vitifolia if you still have it. I have 2 other Passi's, so it should be happy.

Donna

Socal,
If cerinth major blue and shrimp plant red have not been spoken for, I would love one of each.

Spin, I am probably the one regarding the Palo Verde and Desert Willow seedings that you are thinking about.. Don graciouly offered to start the seeds for me since I couldn't keep the seedlings alive past a few months. Although something did cut off the 6 Palo Verde seedlings off at the tips, they are starting to grow from the sides, but I wanted tree types and now they will be bush type.. oh well. Maybe with Don's I'll have better luck.

A.

'spin, I have plenty of the centranthus and the salvia viridis, if you'd each like two, they're certainly yours, if not don't feel that you have to take them either. I think everybody either already has what I'm growing or is growing other things....I really need to clear out some of my propagating area!! Maybe N. Cal will do another roundup soon, and I'll go see my Dad and take plants up there. They had a lot of tempting things at their last roundup and I go see my Dad frequently in Modesto. Also, if you don't have roots for 2 of the passiflora vitifolia, let Donna have it. I'm getting quite a few things from this roundup and Donna is asking for so little!
Donna, I would really like one of the cerinthe if you have any left.
Sherry

Gourd and Sherry,

I will have to go out back and see how many Cerinthe I have available. Spin asked first then what is left will be able to share with both of you.

Gourd, will put you down for the red shrimp plant also.

Donna

Ha ha, Donna, my thread reading page is showing two equal columns (sender + message) making the messages really long and scroll off the screen quickly... so by the time I'm reading your "Hi A, yes a few would be nice", the only part of Gourd's message showing is: "As far as the Desert Willow and Palo Verde, we can share those with others, [etc]"

So you can see how I interpreted it! Hee hee. Re-reading I see the Aeoniums mention at top of A's message.

I understand about your postage-stamp lot (should say, OUR lots) and not needing plants. I will bring you a P.vitifolia -- which I *thought* I'd read was LESS VIGOROUS than other passy's when I bought it -- but turned out not to be so for me! I also have a couple leggy aeoniums that I will donate to your efforts, mayhap they are different types or their sinuous forms will fit your planting (or a harsh pruning will bring them back in shape).

I have one little corner (where some bulblets I got in a trade last fall didn't like the transfer from temporary deco-pot to the garden and promptly died) just perfect for your sparaxis bulbs -- spot is maybe 8"x8" or 6"x10" so give me the right number (i.e. just a few) for that area. Thanks!

~'spin!~ This is going to be so much fun!

Sherry:
I just counted and I have four separate starts of the P.viti (actually, volunteers from root fragments left when Naien/Scott took the main plant last year) so you and Donna can each have one, no problem!

If you have room, go ahead and bring as many of S.viridis and C.ruber as you want to get rid of... Blooms does have this empty lot to people I mean plant, AND my DS and SIL nearby with their own gardens each!

~'spin!~

Socal, thank you..

I have a question to ask, from reading Spins post above, am I to understand that if no-one wants the plants we listed, we are not to take them? Did I get that right? or do we take them anyway and others can pick out what they want if they want it and swap there. I am confused..

Antonette,

First of all, there are no set rules on trading your plants.

Last year at Don's, many people had some plants previously spoken for and still brought extra's to share with others. By the end of the day, there were lots of plants left over and people took some or they left them there. I think it also depends on what type of plants you're bringing....like would most people be able to grow them or want to grow them. You can also take home what you have left over too. Just use your own judgement on what you want to bring.

I'm hoping that from now till the RU that we have more activity on all the RU threads. I dmailed 178 people this week from So. Calif. inviting them and reminding them to check into the threads. I hope they will consider Don and Pam's hospitality and let us know whether they can come or not.

I hope this anwsers your confusment . lol

See ya soon,
Donna

Oh, Gourd, did I say something like that? I'm sure I didn't mean to.

Blooms and I intend to fill my minivan with pots! When people see how cute the un-spoken-for ones are, I'm sure they'll find a home... else we can leave them in the stable, like the "400 naked lady Belladonna amaryllis bulbs" someone(s) left Don last year!

~'spin!~

I'm sure drDon is going to fall in love with any left over lions tails and he has tons of room or this just camera angles... I never been there. ~Blooms

I only have plants in my yarden that are basically invasives, they have to duke it out with each other and the cottonwood feeder roots for every drop of water and wink of sunlight they get.

A quick list and if anything strikes anyones fancy speak up. Most would be invasives if given the water - mine don't venture out into the barrens where I don't water.

Russian Sage [after ten years these decided to spead like crazy];
Lemon Monarda [ a mint, annual here self seeds liberally, easy to pull ];
Sapponaria Occymoides aka Soapwort - pnk, [spreads and seeds both];
oops, company, gotta run ~Blooms

Oh that's great, I intend to take several other pots and cuttings too that are not listed..


400 naked ladies, now that is a sight to behold..lol.

I have some naked ladies too, but they have not bloomed and I think it is because I've got them too far from the house and do not water that area.. Just moved a few closer and will see what happens in a few years here.

Thanks for the clarification on everything..

A.

I'm also bringing some things that are not already spoken for, 'cause once people see what they are, how could they resist? Blooms, I'd like a monarda and a saponaria, if possible. I wish you'd find more from my list to take back with you. I can't tell you how much I like verbena rigida...tough, spreading, brilliant purple! I should think it would grow in your area, but haven't checked. Will try to bring things in smaller than gallon size, that may be an issue for those traveling a ways.

Sherry

Sherry,
Blooms actually loves V.rigida and asked me to bring her some of the trailing "species" last month. Alas, I could find only some very erect cultivar *labeled* rigida (Purple Passion? Something like that.)

If you bring yours along and no one else wants them, I bet we can twist her arm to take them home and give them a place on the semi-shady side of the shed, at least temporarily until they adjust to the heat. (It being too hot by July being her excuse not to speak for them when I told her I couldn't find them but that you had on trade list.)

~'spin!~

'spin, Huh, you got me there. I didn't know there was a trailing variety. Mine is erect, about 2' tall. She can't pass up stuff just because July is hot!! Now I'll have to look into the "trailing species", always something new to learn, but yes, I'll be bringing some along.
Sherry