Let's Do Some Host Plant Seed Trades! R U Ready?

All are invited to join in the 'trading' whether new to butterfly gardening or experienced, whether ignorant about seed collecting or savvy to all the skills.

The point of the thread is to introduce others to the fun and satisfaction of Butterfly Gardening, to improve our own gardens and our knowledge of butterflies, and to have some fun!

The usual seed trading courtesies will be expected. (I am not sure what they are, but I am sure others will tell you!)

If you have questions, please ask them on our discussion thread http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/656598/ and keep your posts here to the absolute minimum. If you want to set up details of a trade, please send a D-mail.

This thread is for stating your HAVES and WANTS.

This trade thread is for seeds/cuttings of butterfly HOST plants only. (We will trade nectaring plant seeds later this season.) If you are not familiar with Butterfly HOST plants, check out this Host plant list compiled by Larry Gene for Garden Web's FAQ. http://davesgarden.com/journal/d/t/tabasco/4450/ . ( Host plants are the particular plants that a butterfly species will use to lay eggs on and where the caterpillers will feed. If you have the right host plants in your garden many beautiful butterflies will call your garden home.)

So let's get started!

Edited October 16, 2006, to say that we have created a "Part 2 Butterfly Host Plant Trade" thread to speed loading. Please click on this link to get to the new thread... http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/661941/




This message was edited Oct 16, 2006 8:38 PM

My HAVES:

Asclepias Curassavica "Silky Red" seeds or cuttings (Monarchs)
CLOSED Asclepias purpurascens (Purple Milkweed) seeds (Monarchs)
Milkweed Vining Seeds (Monarchs)
CLOSED Passiflora caerulea (Hardy Passion Vine) cuttings and seeds (Fritillaries) http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1264/index.html
Nasturtium 'Moonlight' (Cabbage Butterfly) seeds
CLOSED Aristolochia gigantea Pipevine seeds (Polydamas Swallowtail)

Will send out some seeds for SASE depending on how many I can collect.

My WANTS
CLOSED Hop Vine Cuttings
CLOSED Parsley seed
CLOSED Pussy Willow Cuttings (2)
CLOSED Paw Paw cuttings

I have other plants/seeds too that may be of interest--still need to go through my seed box. And I am still collecting and drying the MW pods.

LMK. Thanks everybody. t.

Edited to update trades.




This message was edited Oct 23, 2006 1:32 PM

I'll adjust to my list but figured I'd go ahead and get started:

HAVE:

Milkweed - "Tropical/Mexican" A. currassavica - (Monarchs and Queens)

Passionvine - will look up what kind - (Gulf Fritillary)

Frogfruit (or Fogfruit) - ............ - (Phaon Crescent, Buckeye)

Queen Anne's Lace seed - Black Swallowtail



WANT:

Pipevine

Spicebush



~Paige~



This message was edited Oct 10, 2006 7:45 AM

This message was edited Oct 11, 2006 9:46 PM

Hi Ladies,

I've been reading these threads on BF's and finally found my first Monarch Cat on my parsley plant this week! It just keeps getting prettier and fatter as it muches it's way throught the plant!

Right now I only have parsley seed to trade, but I would love to try to grow some Milkweed. Please let me know how you would like to do this.

Thank you,

Virginia

Have: Milkweed seed
Fennel seed
Cassia (if I can get it to root from a cutting)

Want: Spicebush

Karen

By the way, PawPaw is available cheap on eBay.

Hi Tabasco,

I have some parsely seed that I'd like to trade for some of your A. gigantea.


To anyone else interested, My haves are listed below (check my tradelist for pics).
My wants are pipevine species, tulip poplar seeds, Buddleia, iochroma, any milkweed variety other than the standard gold and red, and any passiflora other than incarnata and caerula.

I have seeds for SASBE, and for trade only. First come, first served on the freebies.

Haves:

morning glories (several)
cypress vine,
cardinal climber,
passiflora incarnata,
salvia-coral nymph
salvia-lady in red
mexican sunflower
mexican milkweed
lantana-patriot parasol
turk's cap (Drummond's hibicus)
purple porterweed
parsely (will list shortly)


And here's a pic of a gulf fritillary on my lantana butterfly magnet

Mark

I'm new so have nothing of my own to share/trade (yet), but
have (sent to me by another generous fellow DG'er...enough to share)

asclepias incarnata 'Soulmate' (swamp milkweed)

want

any other kinds of milkweed
passiflora incarnata
passiflora caerulea
dill
parsley
fennel
spicebush

Virginia, email me with your address at tropicalkaren@earthlink.net and I will send milkweed seed. Karen

Hello all,

Have:

Two kinds of rooted cuttings of milkweed but no seeds.
One from Lowe's and one from the local nursery.
I am making some Passion Vine cuttings.
I am making cuttings from my Buddleia plants.

Would love:

Spicebush
Paw Paw
Cassia Alata







This message was edited Oct 10, 2006 11:03 PM

My haves for now>
SEEDS:

Queen Anne's Lace
Dill
Fennel
Parsley
Cassia Alata

I have SO many potential and specific Nectar Plants, but for now to avoid any confussion, i will to stick to host plants only. I will revise this list as I aquire more plants and seeds of them in the coming days.

This is only yhe beginning~
:oD

hi ..i am just getting started i have no host plants in my garden..so i am trying to get some seed so i can plant them for next year.
so my wants would be basically all the host plants...

pamsue

Have Seeds

Rue
Fennel
White butterfly bush



Would like

Aristolochia gigantea Pipevine seeds
lantana-patriot parasol
Spicebush

jim

Hi Tabasco,

I should have read your post more carefully--I just noticed that you mentioned that this for host plants only. In that case, I have:

Mexican milkweed (9 offers, 2 for trade only)
Italian flatleaf parsely (4 offers, trade or SASBE)
Passiflora incarnata (4 offers, 2 for trade only).

My wants are as above.

If anyone has D-mailed me a request for any of the other "haves" I listed above, don't worry--I'll send them.


Mark

After thinking I have nothing in this category I forgot I should have some A. watsonii seeds available. I will check when I go home today to make sure.

Okay, I will join in. I have so much, but dont need a thing.

Haves
Milkweed seed
Cassia alata seed
passionflower Incense (soon)

I will also join in. I have a "young" garden, so I don't have a lot of seeds .... yet.
It is still very warm here in my area/zone, so more seeds may develope over the next 2 months. (But not sure.)

Here's my very short list of seeds that I currently have:

Scarlet Milkweed (Monarch butterflies)
Dill (Black Swallowtail butterflies)

I'd love some Cassia, spice bush, pawpaw, wild lime.

D-mail me on any of these!
Thank you!

Becky~
I will trade you some Cassia seeds for Scarlet Milkweed.
dmail me with your address:o).

Becky~
I will trade you some Cassia seeds for Scarlet Milkweed.
dmail me with your address:o).


Thanks for coming Lisa! gtsy

:oD

I have tons of Cassia Alata(Sulphurs) and Aristolochia fimbriata(Pipevine) seed. Hoping my 1 A. Elegans pod makes it. Have some Clitoria mixed(Blue, Dbl Blue, & White) and lots of Vignea Luteola (Hairy Cowpea vine) for Skippers. D-mail me for trade or SASBE. Have some other seed for nectar plants. Been a slow year for me just starting over in a new place with drought for most of the spring and summer

Have:
Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)
willow (weeping and french)(also have globe and weeping talk about easy to root)
Not sure how much parsley seed I have tried to deadhead due to someone telling me it can be pretty agressive.

Do not want any weeds - have enough all ready - keep that bermuda grass and the like away.

Since I am very new to this - you people lured me in I was just here for the hummingbirds.....I am wondering about region - no sense in me planting a host plant for some species that will never visit me.....so I guess I am asking for help where it comes to my "wants"

Will gladly send willow cuttings and milkweed seed to anyone - just dmail me

Thanks
Nadine

Donna, do you know if there are certain Skippers that use the Hairy Cowpea? Is the Clitoria a host plant for anything or just a nectar plant? It's a vine? It's very pretty. I couldn't find the HC in the Plant Files tho.

I don't do a lot of trading so I'm just starting to see the "SASBE" instead of a regular envelope. Why is this? I'm not sure how this works.

Sliver-spotted and Long-tailed but mostly the Silver-spotted for Vigna. Long-tailed perfers the clitoria best but uses both when I plant them together

Use of bubble envie helps keep seeds from getting crushed in the machines. If very small or flat seeds like aristolochia or salvia regular envie is fine but like clitoria or cassia alata they could get crushed in the sorting machine

This message was edited Oct 13, 2006 8:05 PM

Donna I would love a few pipevine seeds....I have milkweed, fennel seed, cypress vine, moonvine, and chammomile if you want to trade. Karen

Karen I would love some cypress vine

You've got it!

Donna B. I just looked at my seed package and it appears that I have Ipomoea sloteri instead of Ipomoea quamoclit. Both attract butterflies and hummers. Do you still want some? Karen

Nadine! Nice to meet you! I hope we can all help you with the varieties of BFs you get in UT. That is a beautiful part of the country I hear. I also love having the hummers too. They seem to like many of the same plants as BFs, amd later on we will be really digging into the nectar plants, and boy I have a lot of seeds for those. So you already have Milkweed...did you have many Monarchs over this year? What kinds of BFs have you seen there so far? Sorry, I don't want to ask so many questions at once..I will stop here LOL..

:oDeb

Nadine! Nice to meet you! I hope we can all help you with the varieties of BFs you get in UT. That is a beautiful part of the country I hear. I also love having the hummers too. They seem to like many of the same plants as BFs, amd later on we will be really digging into the nectar plants, and boy I have a lot of seeds for those. So you already have Milkweed...did you have many Monarchs over this year? What kinds of BFs have you seen there so far? Sorry, I don't want to ask so many questions at once..I will stop here LOL..

:oDeb
Oh I found this one for starters.. http://www.utahbugclub.org/butterflies.html

Thanks Donna...I would love some of both plants. I'll dmail you to see if there is something you'd like.

OK here is what I have and what I'd love to get

Have:
Buckwheat- blues
hibiscus- hairstreak, west coast lady
snapdragon- buckeye
verbena
sunflowers- painted lady
milkweed swamp- monarch
canna- skippers
hyacinth bean- sulphurs
partrige pea- cloudless sulphurs
fennel- swallowtails
bindens- dainty sulphurs
passiflora- gulf fritillary

Would love to get

Hops annual
rue
white veined Dutchman's pipe
helichrysum licorice plant
woolly pipevine

DMail me for a trade if you like.

Ronnie

This message was edited Oct 17, 2006 1:16 PM

Hi everyone-- sorry I have been 'otherwise engaged' with out of town company and didn't realize this thread was so long! (They are leaving Wednesday evening, so I will be back online Thursday.)

Here is the new thread for HOST PLANT SEED TRADES: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/661941/

Please remember to keep the discussion to a minimum here and to use D-mail to set up your trades.

Hope everyone's having good luck. See you on the new thread!

Have fun. T.

Thank you!! Judy!

konkreteblond
I am interested in your passone vine and Tropical/Mexican if you have any left 'D' mail me

jim

Time to bump this up--

Perhaps someone out there has some spicebush, hops, or other host plant seeds to share?!

I'll be back tomorrow, would love to get in on this, just no time to make a list up, love this thread!
Lea