Hello everyone. Its nice to see so many familiar folks still trading. I have the Amaranth cruentas, that is a tall 5'-7' Amaranthus that is called red, purple, and burgandy - but it really looks like a dark red. Its very beautiful and sturdy, and looks great in the back of the bed. The seedheads produce a lot of seeds, and have many uses. There is 1/8 teaspoon of seeds in a trade (they are very small). I am looking for Herbs, Sunflowers, Marigolds & Calenduals, Zinnias, Salvias, Cottage flowers and climbing plants. But I am open to other trades, or postage if you don't have anything to trade yet.
Giant Amaranth
I have some sunflower, zinnias, and marigolds to trade if it would be okay to send them out next week.
Makshi - you have mail.
I thought I might better clear up what I said above. If anyone wants to trade for postage, please add it to this thread and send SASBE. My addy is in the exchange. Thanks
Hi ansonfan,
I have some herbs, marigolds, zinnas, morning glories, bachelors buttons and some others. Would love to trade. Let me know if your interested.
Jane
rainy_jane
You have mail
Hi Ansonfan...is this it?! I don't need any...I think I might have even sent these to you. Just thought I'd post a pic for you for others to see so they get the idea.
Sandy
Those are beautiful!
Hi Sandy,
Yes that looks like the ones I grew. I think they are great plants too. Everyone who saw them in my garden has wanted seeds. Fortunately they do produce an abundance of seeds and so easy to grow. I direct sowed mine and they did fine. Thanks Sandy for sharing your pic.
Makshi
Rainy_Jane
Your seeds went out today. Hope you enjoy them.
Still have lots of seeds
Sorry for budding in, but I just love this plant. Did you know that it grows nicely indoors? I was so bowled over by this baby that I actually dug one up and potted it for my sunroom. It's doing great, too!
Gorgeous photo you took - I think I will grow a few of them close together this season - that's a very nice look!
Sequee, how far apart are you going to grow them this year, I got some seed from ansonfan too and plant on planting a lot of them together but have never grown them before so don't know how close to plant them.
Lea
Sandy's seem to be less than a foot apart, and I know JRush has planted them fairly close together. Last year I had mine as "centerpieces in my raised bed - one in the 8' x 8' addition (looked stunning and got loads of comments) and 2 in the 18' main section. I have a 6' section, then a 6' gate then another 6' section, so I had them in the centers of each 6' section that wasn't in the gate area - since that's where I access the garden. This year I think I will plant them in front of the raised bed fence that runs parallel to my front walkway. I have both the red and the purple (giant), so I may stagger them into 2 rows, with the giants in the back. The fence is 8' long, so I wonder
if I could put 5 in the back row and 4 in the front? And I wonder if it wouldn't look better with all the same ones??? LOL! I guess I have lots of time to think about it! Oh, I just remembered, someone sent me some giant bronze seeds, too! Those would definitely look nice alternating with the grape-colored ones!
Thanks for the thread - now I at least have one area planned out!
Thanks, I think I will plant them less than a foot apart, these are going to be on one side of my driveway, if the wind doesn't blow them down lol The bronze sound pretty too, I'll settle for what I have this year, looks like they are going to be show stoppers anyway! I can't wait!
Ditto!
Sorry ansonfan - didn't mean to hijack your thread!
Hi ansonfan,
Thanks so much for my seed!
I'm still working on my list of seeds I have. Christmas shopping and decorating is really slowing me down on doing much of anything.
I will go ahead and send you some seed and once my list is up to date dmail you and see if there is anything else you would like.
Hope this will work for you.
Thanks Again!
Jane
Thanks garden buddies for the input. Please feel free to hijack my threads anytime lol.
No hurry on the seeds Jane, still plenty of time before planting.
Ansonfan,
I am interested in the seeds, but I have a question. You said yours were dark red, but seedsower posted a pic of some that are purple...and you said they are like yours. So are they red or purple? I am needing to know because of choosing where to plant them... Thanks for the offer and I have some unknown marigolds and zinnias if you are interested. And I do have some seeds for vines. I will d-mail a list after get back from an errand I am forced to do!!!
Carol
Hi Carol,
I would have to say that mine are dark red.
Do you still have seeds ?
Still have plenty.
I have Red Sun sunflowers to trade. :-)
They also bloom yellow and orange. Mine grew to be 12' tall.
I don't go to the PO often (maybe once a week), so I'm not the speediest sender, but I'm reliable. :-)
I'll send you a dmail 4paws
Hi there, ansonfan! I picked up your seeds earlier this week, and finally put an anddress on my envelope to you to mail on Tuesday. Sorry it took so long - I didn't remember who I promised some to, so when I got your seeds, I just transferred the return address to my envelope.
I included some Hopi Red Dye Amaranth seeds, too. :-)
I'll dmail you - I love the Hopi Red Dye - the spires are small enought to use it more as an ornamental. Nice pic.
It was very pretty. Thank you for the compliment. I bought the little plant from a vendor at the McKinleyville, CA farmer's market.
I love the color of the leaves.
I cut it back when the weather turned cold; do you suppose it will grow again from the roots? Or is it strictly an annual?
As far as I know its just an annual, but I'll have to check it out. The ones I grew last year had seeds dropping on the ground and germinating. They grew so fast that some of the babies had seedheads on them.
Really?
That's great! I didn't collect many of the seeds from the Hopi Red Dye, so maybe I'll have volunteers, too!
4paws that is really pretty, I hope it does come back for you.
Connie
:-)
If it does, and ansonfan grows some, too, there will be seeds to share! ;-)
I'm with you on that :-)
Sent ya some D-mail...
ansonfan, did you get my seeds?
Do you still have some seeds left? If so I'd like to have some. I have some mariglod seeds that look a lot like zinnias. They are yellow and the flowers are about 1 1/2" wide. the plants get to about10"
plmk,
luckpup