I'd like to join and I'll d-mail you my info. And I'll wait to list my wants until next week, right?
CLOSED: CGs Last MOST WANTED Seed Swap 2006
o.k. i am going to try this. but connie when i send my seeds to you if i do it wrong please lmk.
what i most want:
abutilon megapotamicum
any abutilon hardy to zone 8a
red flowers..............esp. perennials
yellow flowers..........esp. perennials
eucalyptus
baobab
salvia...........non blue
agastache..........non blue
thunbergia........any kind
white cucumber
miniature eggplant
tropical plants
kopper king hibiscus
clematis texensis
shrub clematis
purple, red and pink porterweed
jewel weed
variegated perennials
cuphea
justicia
epilobium
Oh Barb you worry to much :o) You will do fine, trust me hahahaha. No seriously you will be fine...
Connie
Sue Welcome a board. :o)
Connie
I'll play! I have at least 15 packets that match up with wish lists posted already. I especially have lots of homegrown garlic cloves (heirloom varieties) that haven't made it into the ground yet, so I will supply those to whomever is interested. And here's my wish list:
REDBUD SEEDS
Helianthus maximiliana, the very tall kind
Calendulas
Echinacea, the green-tinged one
Milkweed, the kind butterflies nest on
Monopsis, any color
Hardy chrysanthemums
Eupatorium 'Chocolate'
Eggplants, different colors or sizes
Pineapple sage
Hollyhocks
Anything really tall!
This message was edited Nov 28, 2006 4:30 PM
Well I had a bit of a rough night, didn't get in bed til 7 am (est) this morning, just got up about 20 minutes ago... BUT I am doing a *happy dance* :o) one of my items sold on ebay :o)... I will be going on Monday to put my application in for a Receptionist job. Say a prayer I get it. Monday thru Saturday and no Sunday's. It's what I have been looking for :o)... And I already know a lot of the ppl there :o) So that will make it good too, just icing on the cake ;^)
Theresa A warm welcome to the swap :o)
Connie
Hi Pamsue,
With everyone sending 15 packs each person should receive 15 packs back :o), but if you want to send extra its up to you ;-)
Connie
hi there i hope to fill as many wants as i can! this sounds like fun!
my wish list
i love anything salmon, or apricot colored
redbud
kalmia
agastache cana or rupestris or aurantica
salvias any but splendens especially s. greggii
penstemons
sanvitalia
melampodium
salpiglossis
impatiens any except balsam really want blue diamond
begonias tuberous, hardy, wax
annual phlox and perennial phlox
kalmia mountain laurel
cuphea cigar plant
white texas star hibiscus
zinnia crystal white or yellow
gas plant
masterwort
dianthus clove pinks or similar
lily any type
wallflower short
viburnums, snowball bush, beauty bush
scarlet hedgenettle
verbena low growing
sunflower ring of fire
chocolate cosmos
potentilla
pamsue
This message was edited Nov 26, 2006 10:15 AM
Fo those of you looking for kalmia latifolia, mountain laurel, there's oodles of it growing in the national forest near me. I can't collect plants but I can collect seeds. I'll try to find you all some seeds if the wild kind will do. They have pink flowers, bloom in May. Not sure how late they hold their seed pods.
Also, someone wanted redbud seeds. I had a very few but got a bunch from my mother's tree on Thursday so I have plenty to send.
Connie, good luck on the new job!
Oh good, hart! I am one of the seed swappers that wanted redbud seeds. I didn't realize that they grow up north in VA? I understand that it blooms red/pink little flowers before it even gets leaves in the Spring. Is that true? I've only seen photos of this tree. It looks beautiful.
It's a native tree here. Yes, the flowers are tiny little purple/pink balls studding the branches before the leaves emerge. It's the prettiest color. Where they grow along the roadside here it will be just a mist of purple for miles along the road.
The leaves are heart shaped. I think redbuds are just about perfect trees. Pretty flowers, pretty foliage, tough as nails and they don't get too big.
I'll check on the mountain laurel seeds this week if I can get up there.
Hey Hart, Save me some laural and redbud too please :o)
Thanks a bunch, Connie
Will do, Connie. I don't know if I'm going to be able to find the mountain laurel seeds but my mom's redbud has about a zillion seed pods so I can get as much as you all want.
hart - Oh yes please! get some for me. Connie, I hope you will add some of the redbud seeds to the package that you are sending out to ME for this swap! This is something that I really want! THANK YOU, hart!
Thanks Hart, will take as many as you want to send me, I am soooo sick of DH planting all these maple trees, you know the kind that come up everywhere. :o)
no problemento rofl...
Hart if you just want to send them to me with each users name and number on them, I can stick them in with their return envelopes...
What I'll do with the redbud and mt. laurel seeds is just make them up into a bunch of extra packets to make sure everyone who wants them gets them. If that isn't enough, I can always get more redbud seeds when I go to Mom's house for Christmas.
Could those of you who want redbud or laurel seeds go back and edit your lists to add them? That way I don't have to go through every single post to see how many are needed. I'm sure I can get plenty enough redbud seeds for anyone who wants them.
Hey Summerkid,
The milkweed grows wild here, so I don't know any biological info, but I'll see what I can find. I can get all the seed you want. Anyone else? You need lots of the plants as the female only lays one egg on each plant.
Linda
I have milkweed seeds.
Well i have made up my list and have seen others lists. Yes i have things on 8 or 10 lists. i have coleus, cosmos, sunflowers, brandywine tomato, hollyhock-peaches n dreams, any a few others i havent looked for yet but i know i have them. here is my list. thanks for letting me play with you all.
Million bells
Licorice plant
Black-eyed Susan vine
Bacopa
Silver Falls Dichondra
Trailing Coleus
Impatiens
Trailing Verbena
Trailing lantanas
and any other trailing plant seeds
can you tell i like trailing plants?
diana
Hey mamajack, did you plant any of you cleome lutea yet? I planted some out already and I am going to ws some then plant the rest in the spring. Hopefully one of the ways will work :o)
That lady must have sent you a boat load of them lol
Hey Everybody :o)
I put my address up in the first post at the bottom for those who were asking where to send the seeds to.
Connie
This message was edited Nov 26, 2006 5:44 PM
I still need the following people to d-mail me their mailing info:
12. dorothy_2006 - Joyce
19. alinehuey
Thanks, Connie
Connie, I'm sorry. In my excited haste I misuderstood the instructions. However (since I only have a very limited amount of seeds in quantities to share) waiting for everyone to post their wish list really wouldn't make any difference in my case. I hope I didn't create more work for you.
Just one question Connie. Do we post the seeds that we do have?
Sal
Sal, no problems, after I close the swap on Wednesday, if you have seeds that match some of the ones that others are wanting, you just list those seeds... not the persons name, just the seeds that match :o) I hope I explained that ok :o)
everybody I got a d-mail from dorothy_2006 she isn't a member of DG any more. So she can't post. I am waiting to hear back from her. I told her I would list her seeds for her, if she still wanted to play... Will let you know what I find out...
Connie
Well, no luck with the mountain laurel today. I couldn't find a patch of it where I could get to it. It's a narrow mountain road with no shoulder and there was no place near any of it to pull over. I walked quite a ways where I could pull over and couldn't find any growing there.
I have finally made up my want list:
Corkscrew vine (vigna caracalla)
Chocolate cosmos
Black-eyed Susan vine (Thunbergia)
- alba(white)
- Spanish Eyes
- Sun lady
- blushing susie
- Blue glory
Spanish flag (mina lobata)
Japanese Morning Glories (unusual ones)
Sunflowers (unusual ones, i.e. black, red, fuzzy, etc)
Butterfly weed (ascelpias) Gay butterflies, this is red, orange and yellow in one.
Thanks!
Susan
=^..^=
hart - Thanks for attempting to get us some mountain laurel seeds. Not worth risking your life over! I'm perfectly happy just getting some of the redbud seeds! :-) :-) :-) Thanks for trying!
It was very frustrating, Becky. Where I could get to the woods, I couldn't find any. When I drove about a mile down the road, there were oodles of them growing right by the road but I couldn't pull over anywhere to get to them.
OK, here' my want list:
Any kind of astilbe
Any kind of alyssum
Aubretia 'Cascade Red' (Aubrieta )
Bear's Breeches (Acanthus hungaricus)
Beard Tongue, Border Penstemon, Garden Penstemon 'Apple Blossom' (Penstemon ) or Beardtongue, Beard Tongue (Penstemon hartwegii)
Penstemon 'Red Rocks' (Penstemon x mexicali)
Blue corydalis (Corydalis elata) or Corydalis 'Blue Heron' (Corydalis curviflora var. rosthornii)
Campanula 'Van Houttei' (Campanula )
Cheddar Pink 'Raspberry Swirl' (Dianthus )
Chinese Globe Flower 'Golden Queen' (Trollius chinensis) or Globe Flower (Trollius europaeus)
Common Garlic (Allium sativum)
Coneflower 'Razzmatazz' (Echinacea ) or Coneflower 'Twilight' (Echinacea )
Creeping Veronica, Speedwell 'Georgia Blue' (Veronica peduncularis)
Mountain Laurel 'Minuet' (Kalmia latifolia), Mountain Laurel 'Olympic Fire' (Kalmia latifolia), or Mountain Laurel 'Tinkerbell' (Kalmia latifolia)
Red Bird of Paradise, Dwarf Poinciana, Pride of Barbados, Peacock Flower, flamboyan-de-jardin (Caesalpinia pulcherrima)
Red Yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora)
Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia var. corsica)
Tickseed 'Limerock Passion' (Coreopsis ) or Tickseed 'Snowberry' (Coreopsis auriculata)
Tunic Flower (Petrorhagia saxifraga)
Variegated Solomon's Seal, Fragrant Solomon's Seal, Striped Solomon's Seal 'Variegatum' (Polygonatum odoratum)
Verbena 'Tukana Scarlet' (Verbena )
White Coneflower 'White Swan' (Echinacea purpurea)
JoAnn
Edited to mention that this is a scaled down list of my DG Wanted list of 100+ items! I tried my best to get it down to 10, but found it was impossible! LOL
This message was edited Nov 27, 2006 9:34 PM
Oh! JoAnn, I have some dwarf Poinciana seeds. Only it has yellow flowers, not red. Will that do?
Okay Just waiting for lists from Susan51, ZZTOPSOIL, CheerMom, plantnutz.
dorothy_2006 will be dmailing me her list of wants and also alist of the seeds she has. I will post them for her...
Well it is getting closer :o) everybody getting excited :0}
roose I received your seeds today.
Connie
beckygardner,
Sure, yellow is OK, too. Thanks!
frausnow
Connie,
I have some some sea holly seeds ... eryngium planum, eryngium varifolium, and eryngium Pico I received from a trade. I'd be willing to share if you'd like any of those.
JoAnn
Edited to say I also have about 20 items from people's lists.
This message was edited Nov 28, 2006 1:08 PM
sounds good JoAnn :o)
Ok Here is dorothy_2006 - Joyce's want list:
1. Chinese Foxglove
2. Crocosmia
3. Butterfly Amaryllis
4. Soulmate/Butterfly Weed
5. Heather Queen Agastache
6. Firefly Coral Bells
7. The Bride Gaura
8. Russian Sage
9. Orchid Cactus
10. Firecracker Vine
I have also received a list from what she has..
Connie
Can I get in on the seed swap? I'll come up with a wish list.
Tracy