July 8th Roundup Trades

oh weegy,
I'm so disappointed to hear you can't make it.
We'll really miss you
Dove

Thanks Dove, was really looking forward to being there and bringing you wine! Have a great time, I know you will.

Kaperc, you're both covered, no sweat!

Hey all,
If anyone has Devil's Claw seeds to spare, pls bring. Have seeds to trade:
Nigella, Love-In-A-Mist (selected from blue-flowering plants)
Lychnis coronaria, Rose campion...
Leonotis menthifolia

Or any unspoken for potted up plants. Thanks.
~'spin!~

Just getting back to check in. Kanita, yes, I'll package some B. D. pepper seeds for you. I'll need to bring my Sunset Gardening book with me as I don't recognize names of flowering plants...not familiar with the various types of salvias, for instance. I'll try to get organized this weekend and be more detailed with what I have.

Corona~Barb

I would like to mention one thing that will help many of you that are bringing extra plants to share with others. Please put some type of lable on the plant. If you don't have any plant markers, just put some masking tape on the pot and write the name on the tape.

You might also think about bringing some small baggies, just in case some people bring cuttings and you can place them in your baggie.

Note to self.....bring my Plant Encyclopedia book for anyone needing to look up a plant. Or, maybe Don has one we can use. lol

If you have any other ideas like these, please post here to share with everyone.

Donna

:-(

Donna,
Along with the plant name your name would be nice, who is as much fun as what.
(a year later and I'm trying to remember who I got what from)

Louise,
double :-( back at you

Dove

hiya guys,

Again this year we'll be providing plant labels and Sharpie pens for those without them, and I'll have a table out in the shade logged on to DG so all can find plants on the PlantFiles and I'll put out a copy of Sunset Garden Book as well and a Book on Salvias by Besty Clebsch so folks can read about them as well.

Tables for trading will be 48ft long this year and 4ft wide so there should be enough room for plants and there will be a shade area on the tables for plants that require it.

best to all,
don

don, I can't believe you do all of this for us. I thank you so much, just can't believe there is anyone else who would do all of this work and expense to get a bunch of dig- in- the-dirt people together. What a hard act to follow. How in the world could any future roundups compare?! Will try to be good and live up to the honor you're bestowing upon us!
Sherry

This message was edited Jul 1, 2006 8:16 AM

Sherry,

Now your starting to understand why we are all excited about this RU., and why I sent out over 170 emails to local members to attend. Last year was Dons first RU and it was a complete success and we were all thankful for a lovely day with other gardeners.
Pam and Don are going beyond the general RU for us and it will show when you get there. I feel so bad for the people that can't make it, or don't want to come. lol

The days are counting down, a week from today. yippee

See ya soon, can't wait to meet you.
Donna

ok, I didn't prepare very well, but here is what I have:
(6) passiflora purple haze (received in a trade)
(6) passiflora blue boutique (received in a trade)
(15) amorphophallus konjac aka voodoo lily
(2) amorphophallus Bulbifer aka snake lily

(2) seedling amorphophallus Titanum (Mr. Stinky, the corpse flower)

the Titanum are only for the most special of trades, these are very expensive.
Mark

Cool stuff Mark,

Are you interested in a specimen size Delonix regia? How about Sesbania grandiflora?, Dahlia imperialis?....I've got some pretty cool stuff I didn't list for special trades.

As far as Pam and I going the extra mile....we feel honored to be allowed to host this RU as it really belongs to SoCal and frogsrus. So being able to be your hosts is a great big deal for us horsie folk and we want everyone to feel like we're grateful for the friends, the possibility of finding special plants and sharing them as well. Dave's Garden has been really good to Pam and I as we've met dozens of incredible people here and in person because of this place. Pam and I hope that we'll be able to make it a better event each year we get to host it. So come if you can, don't if you can't, it means more smoked fish for me....lol.

best to all,
don

Don, your Dahlia, is that the one known as the Tree Dahlia? I am looking for one of these.
Mark

Yes it is Mark, D. imperialis goes from nothing to about 12-15ft tall each year and puts on a show of color in the late summer/autumn that will have you staring at for hours and snapping photos of the hundreds of orchid pink 4-6in blooms open on it.

I have several growing in the gardens and will be glad to show you the plants.

best to you,
don

Hello All!

I feel like a ghost! It;s been so long since I have been around.

Anyways, I have potted up a bunch of Canna's (big deal) I will bring if anyone wants some.

A friend will be joining me, and I believe she will be bringing 5 or 10 pots of somethng... : )

SoCal

Did I get these from you last year? I can't remember now.

A passa flora, and I forgot the name of the other

Here is the other

Hey Jt,

Nope wasn't me. You might have gotten the passion flower from Mark and the Plectranthus from Frogrus (Janice).

Did you take a look at my trade list? Ask, and it's yours, ok?

See ya soon,
Donna

The plec was probably from me. Ciliatus-Zulu Wonder. It looks happy. Glad to hear that you will be there.
Janice

I will bring plenty of irises for anybody but they will be un named, there are some white and some purple...free to good homes! Also have Martha Washington geraniums if someone wants some. I really have a boring plant trade list! If anyone has named iris they can share with me, I'll be forever grateful. I will be there for awhile!

Now that really is some good news!!

Well, Blooms is here and trimming up my gardens nicely! I have "started" (Rootone and planter-mix in 4" pots some native sages (Salvia) (meliferaX and a few apiana) that we'll be bringing along (as well as the S.cacaliifolia and coral-orange S.jamensis PLANTS).

No guarantee on viability of the starts , -- I have little experience in cutting-propagation, -- but they haven't wilted yet!

~'spin!~

They are about the only thing that has not wilted around here. It is nasty sticky hot. Dad got here yesterday fternoon and this am we find an exploded can of root beer in his car. Yes, in the front seat!! Guess my next chore of the day Lol.

Happy 4th everyone. See you Saturday.
Janice

Exploding rootbeer?

Liquid fireworks?.....are those legal in San Diego County?....lol.

Boy do I know about wilting plants in this wacky humid weather. It's still hotter than Hades out here, but with the humidity it's absolutely stifling. Weather geek (pick one) says the tropical air flow is to break up by Thursday.

I've got what looks like some new plants to trade that are for special trades only. I've got 5 rooted Lycium eleagnus 'Barbarum' or Goji Berry plants. These are all the rage now as a "Superfood" loaded with health benefits. We've been eating them for years and I'm still an old fart...lol.

I'll trade for anything bizarre, rare, goofy, and that I don't have buy groceries for or clothe.

Happy 4th to all!,
don

I had several rooted rose cuttings, ahh but this blasted heat dehydrated the tender little darlings.
I think they're toast - I'm so disappointed.
I still have the ones promised and 2 few others, Golden Celebration & Glamis Castle.

I have a bucket of Gladiolus Bulbs and some Kahili Ginger.
We will also dig up some Black Elephant Ear, if anyone wants some.

(I'm still an old fart...lol.)


LOL....

Hi Sherry-gypsy,
Blooms wants to is your Gaura pink-flowered? Her pink one died for no known reason (right near a white flowered one that's still doing fine)... if you have a pink-flowered one she would like it.
THX ~'spin!~

Oh, 'spin, blooms, my pink died also. I don't know what's wrong with the siskiyou pink, just not as durable, I guess. I've got white, sorry
Sherry

Dovey- Can I have some of your black elephant ear? I would love to try growing that.

kanita

You bet kanita, I'll have Matt dig one up for you.

Late-date update (writing here as thread is long and hard to pick out when someone edits and adds something to way-back message)

Blooms (with minor "hand me that tool" help from me) has dug and potted a nursery-full of plants! Here is what we are bringing with spoken-for in parentheses followed by AVAILABLE numbers.

Leonotis menthifolia (One large to Corona~Barb),
--4 medium, 3 small available
Pelargonium crispum, Lemon geranium, TWO available,
--they are large/full enough for cuttings to be taken on the spot
Passiflora vitifolia (one to Sherry, one to Donna, one to Janice)
--TWO available
Salvia cacaliifolia, (one each for Corona~Barb and Kathleen/kaperc)
--AVAILABLE: one more small (wilted, but should bounce back)
coral-flowered Salvia x jamensis (medium to Corona~Barb)
--one medium, 2 small available
(one Russian Sage for Janice)
Saponaria ocymoides (one for Sherry) one available
Apologies: Monarda citriodora did not make it from Utah (would not have lived through the digging)

NEW TO LIST! 5 seedlings of shrimp plant, Justicia brandegeana.
one 'rosette' of Lychnis coronaria... it's a biennial, so you get a jump over sprouting your own from seeds. This should flower next year...

Ziplocs of sorted but not really cleaned, viable but not germination-tested (sprouting everywhere here), seeds of 1/ Nigella love-in-a-mist, selected from blue-flowering plants, 2/ Leonotis menthifolia, 3/Lychnis coronaria.

Update of my/our requests to follow.
~'spin!~

Please LMK if I forgot anything that was promised.

This message was edited Jul 5, 2006 2:02 PM

Regarding requests made early-on:

DrDon: can I remove the request for the S.nubicolas? Don't know what I was thinking... I think you started special-like for me/Blooms, but too big for me! says they are 5' tall! -- and she not sure she likes the color... but someone will surely want. Instead, if you still have a S.transylvanica and a S.stenophylla I think I can use both in the spot the S.cacaliifolia came out of.

Sherry-gypsy: can I add a Salvia "Berggarten" & a Scented Geranium "Nutmeg" (for self) and a Nepeta 6-hills for Blooms? to the S.viridis and C.ruber (one each apiece) already on your list...

Chuck Bernard: Did you offer Lycoris bulbs/plants? I would take [a few? spot I have is about 2-3' long by 1' deep]. Pls see immediate past post for things we would like to trade!

~'spin!~

I have just harvested lettuce seed for a French heirloom, 'Jeanne'. I got the seed from a fellow at Seed Savers Exchange who could no longer keep it going, so I have taken over growing and offering it. A beautiful bright green leaf type with maroon markings, it is not the same lettuce as 'Trout'.

I'd be glad to bring seed for anyone wanting to try it, but the seed won't be totally clean as I don't have time right now to pick through it.

Corona~Barb

THANKS DOVEY!!!!

Corona Barb - I'd love some of those lettuce seeds.

'spin, YES!!! I'm thrilled to give you any and all that you can use! Was just thinking of posting a "last call" on my list. Don't want to drag a lot of stuff over to Don and Pam's that nobody wants and have to drag it all back home...( I heard his promise to compost whatever was left there!) I have a lot of stuff that needs to go into ground and I'm really slowed down by planting everything in wire baskets and the heat, so whatever anyone can use, please speak up.
Sherry

hiya spin,

S. nubicolas are off your list and I do have the S. stenophyllas still available. S. transsylvanica is gone, sorry. Still have a few assorted Salvias remaining that don't get so big like S. coahuilensis and S. sinaloensis (truest blue flower I've ever seen on a Salvia species). S. sinaloensis would be too tender for Utah, but will thrive in Santa Ana.

If I can, might I ask for some of the Nigella and Lychnis seed and a few seedlings as well for my wildflower gardens at the front of the property.

All: I've now got two Salvia nubicola unspoken for with one reserved for kaperc.

Does anyone have something interesting /unusual for clivia rooted plants. Sorry, I'm only offering the orange flowers at this time. Still letting the yellow ones multiply.

hiya ginny,

check up top, and see if there is anything else on my list you might be interested in, yet I'm sure someone would love some Clivia miniata, as it is truly a marvelous plant.

look forward to meeting you,
don