CLOSED: HAVE: Elephant Ears and Bananas

As I repot my ee's, I find I have small plants I can share of. These will be small, maybe only six inches tall. Some may be taller. They'll have root systems. These are NOT tissue cultures, but rather babies from the mother plant.

Wentii
Black Magic
Illustris (Imperial)
Xanthasoma Sagitifolia
Running green ee's

I also have these banana pups:

Musa Basjoo (hardy banana)
Dwarf Cavendish banana

I'm looking for something unusual. Please check my other posts for more plants I have to trade and for a list of what I'm seeking.

Thank you for looking

I notice that, like me, you are zone 7a. Do you take all these plants inside each winter?

I take in a few of each variety. Wentii and Illustris have survived outside for me. The running ee's always survive, and come back with their families. LOL I hear Black Magic will survive in my zone too, but haven't yet tried leaving it out all winter.

I would be interested in the banana's for postage if you are interested and they do not get traded. Unless you see something I have that you would like to trade for.
Thanks,
Dawn

i have a dwarf oleander bush for trade for banana pups. lmk if your interested thanks desiree

You have dmail

Hi Desiree, I just gave away my oleanders. They just don't perform well for me. Thanks anyway.

Anyone else interested? Frost is coming and I'm going to drag some of these back inside. Once I get them inside, I'm done trading. I'd like to thin them out before carting them in.

Thanks for the responses!

Hi Desiree,

I am very interested in either ee's or banana plants. I am new to this overwhelming but intoxicating gardening world haha!

I am definitely blessed with a nurturing nature and would take very good care of them, that is if you would be willing to let me pay you for them. I don't have any plants I think would strike your fancy, yet! One day I will have many though!

I love this site. In fact it's safe to say, I'm now addicted to it. You know.. waking up in the middle of the night to come read posts!! Anyway, if you would rather trade with someone for plants I certainly understand!

§miles, §uzie

Hi NancyAnn,
I would LOVE to trade with you, I have some Daylilies I bet you would like:) I have an appointment at 1:00, if you are interested I will get you a list of ones I would dig now, as soon as I get back this afternoon. :)Anita

I would love to trade for some EE's! Hopefully I can get them to grow on inside over the winter and then have them take off in the new "tropicals" bed by the deck!

I've got pups on a couple of my bananas. I'm pretty sure the 'Apple Banana' pup will be big enough to separate (there are a couple of them, and they're 2-3 ft. tall including the leaves), although I guess from what folks have said that I won't know for sure until we dig them up this weekend and get a look at the roots... I'm less sure of the size on the 'Ice Cream Banana' pup.

I saw that Agastache was on your "wanted" list. I've got 'Honey Bee Blue' and 'Honey Bee White' agastache... and while I could dig up one of the plants and chop it back, I think you'd probably be ahead if I sent you seeds for those (they wintersow easily and bloomed the first year for me). I think my 'Heather Queen' agastache is also setting seeds now, but that one might be a hybrid. I'm guessing you'd prefer plants to seeds, but figured the agastache were worth a mention anyway... LMK if there are any sorts of seeds you're looking for; I do have some unusual things setting seed now like Lion's Ear (6 ft. tall!) and castor bean (burgundy stem/leaf, looks great with tropicals).

Hmmm, trying to think of what else I have to tempt you with... I've got African Violet plantlets, and lots of different houseplants that I could take cuttings of, including a really cute Curly Spider plant. I think there's also an extra 'Early Sunrise' coreopsis volunteer in the mailbox garden that I could dig and send. I do have a variegated Wiegela if you want to try (unrooted) cuttings, or I can try to stick some dormant cuttings of it over the winter. If none of these appeal to you, I'll look around the garden some more!

PLMK if you're not interested in the banana pup, as I'll be digging tomorrow... I won't separate it if you don't want it. I seem to remember from a previous exchange that you don't "do" AVs or other houseplants, so maybe those are out. I can dig the 'Honey Bee White' and 'Honey Bee Blue' agastache for you if you want them... I started them last spring, and I can spare one of each if you'd rather have plants than seeds for them. Or perhaps you've already got these varieties.

I've also got starts of a bunch of different mints (including some JW hybrids) if that catches your fancy. I Hmmm, and there's also a trio of 'Purple Knock Out' Salvia lyrata plants (first year) in a deck pot.

If our gardening interests aren't similar enough to work out a trade, that's OK too. :-)

Hi Critterologist, I'm sorry, I meant to come back to this post and respond. I'm sorry for the delay.

I'm afraid at this time I don't need any of the plants you've listed above. Thank you for responding to my post.

OK, thanks! I'm sure I'll find EEs somewhere. :-)

One last time before I pack these in for the winter. Anyone want any of these? Got anything special to trade? I'm looking for something uncommon. I don't want to take on many more tropicals, except maybe more unusual ee's, peacock gingers, Costus variegata (variegated spiral ginger), something with unusual foliage, amorphallus, and unusual perennials.

Last call!

NancyAnn,
Did you see my post??? :)Anita

Hi Anita, thanks for responding. At this time, I still have over 200 daylilies to get in the ground, so I'd really rather have some companion plants to go with them. You never thought I'd say that, did you? LOL I currently have 500 cultivars of daylilies and until I cull a few out, I'd rather not take on anymore right now. Sorry! Maybe next year I'll be caught up, so holler at me then, ok?

NancyAnn