Maybe we could make this a stickey for the swaps.
I have 2 desert willows, 3 mexican buckeyes, 2 agastache cana, feather daleas, purple prairie clover, and a mexican redbud.
Does anyone have agarito, mexican plum, or a june berry/service berry?
Texas Native Trades
Toby, I could trade you a mexican plum for a feather dalea, but mine are small, interested?
Absolutely, mine are also tiny right now but should be good by spring.
O.K. Toby, one Mexican plum is being reserved for you.
Ann 2 Poinsettias
Linda 1 Posum Haw
Lee 1 Posum haw
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I am having withdrawal symptoms for the Texas Mountain Laurel I had to leave behind in Victoria. Also, the Butterfly Vine that I hated there because it was so invasive but for which I now have room. My daughter brought me some Coral Vine seeds that she got from a transplant I gave her but she didn't get the others. I don't think my Mexican Olive would have survived here but I would like to try it. (You know that w/the new zone map, we are now in the same zone as the Rio Grande Valley so maybe the Mex. Ol. will see this and decide to grow here :>))
Ann
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Toby, are you going to the College Station RU next spring (if they're having it)? I might be able to get you an agarito if so.
Toby, I have agaritas if we ever get rain so that I can dig enough roots. I'm planning to be at the Ft. Worth swap this spring (I am assuming there will be a Ft. Worth swap. It was great fun last fall.) I'd love a desert willow if you have one left. The Mexican buckeye you started for me is doing great in the greenhouse this winter.
I will also have liatris mucronata, salvia farinacea, yucca rupicola, a couple of different agaves, lace cactus, and white beebrush. Maybe more now that I have time to prowl the pastures and really look at plants.
Patricia
I'm starting a list so I will remember what I have promised to whom at which swap!
.....TxTurquoise (Melanie) - 2 white beebrushes - ? swap
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White Beebrushes? Wow....I haven't seen one of those. I have 2 wild Woolly Beebrushes....sounds lovely.. :)
Melanie
Ann (or anyone else, for that matter), I have a couple of Texas Mountain Laurels that are always popping up pups. You're welcome to as many as you like! They probably won't be big enough to bloom for a couple of years, of course.
Wow!! you are one lucky lady with all those Mountain Laurel babies Linda, oops!!! sorry, I meant to say Marylyn.
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Melanie, hope we meet at one of the spring RU's, I'd be happy to put your name on a couple of the white beebrushes. They do have a wonderful fragrance when they burst into bloom after a rain.
And I can attest to that Pat, the one you gave is doing well and one day I was out and couldn't figure out what the beautiful scent in the garden was, and what do you know! It was the Beebrush.
Ann...
Is the butterfly vine the kind that has yellow blooms that look like crape myrtle flowers...and the seed pods look like butterflies?
If so, I have a few seeds that I harvested from my vine. Quite an invasive bugger. I planted that on one side of a trellis and a mexican flame vine on the other side...both are vying for mass coverage on the poor trellis! Hate to cut either one of them back as they both bloom beautifully.
~Cat
Patricia,
That would be lovely... :) I tried to cultivate some of my woolly beebrush for Josephine in time for our SA RU....but had no success at all with cuttings. It grows wild out in the brush country of South Texas where I was born and I absolutely love its scent. As with the White Beebrush, the aroma is wonderful after a rain...sort of like a heady lavender scent. :)
Melanie
TPP, Yep, that's the one. I really love that thing. You can hack it and pull it and it still performs and dried "butterflies" can be used in so many ways. Out in the country around Victoria, the "ladies who do good works" are constantly making things w/them: necklaces, earrings, pins, in dried, live or artificial floral & green arrangements. This last I am guilty of. Love making dried arrangements. And they can be dyed and glittered which I DO NOT do. The "ladies who do good works" sell their work at church bazaars and such.
Ann
Melanie, do you collect the seed? I'll bet it grows pretty easily by seed. Is that a mint?
One thing I know is that Butterfly Vine will propogate easily by bending some of the vine to the ground so that a node roots. VERY easily.
Ann
Linda,
Although my Wooly Beebrushes-Aloysia macrostachya, always seem to be blooming, I have yet to see any sort of produced seeds on my plants. I'm not sure if it is in the mint family....though the leaves do have that sort of texture. :)
Melanie
Who was it that was looking for Alamo Vine Seeds a while back (Ipomoea sinuata)? I've got some (not tons--but some!) but I can't find that post..... =( I hate it when that happens--lol
Did you get a taker for your Purple Prairie Clover? (me me) Did you grow it from seed? I've got lots of seeds but not sure what you are looking for. Natives or trees/bushes?
I got 2 small M. Buckeye's at the last swap. Not much growth now but they are still alive!
It is nice to see people getting ready for the swaps early, I hope we cam keep track.
I went back and started a list of what I am swapping on my first post on this thread. When the trades thread is started later for a particular swap, I will cut and paste the info over there.
It will be spring before we know it, and those swap dates have a way of sneaking up on me. I have a lot more fun if I spread the digging and potting out.
I am a new subscriber to DG. I am amazed with all the knowledge and love for plants. How do swap meets work?
Thanks Frostweed. That 2006 link helped. I might try to organize one in the fall. Anyone willing to mentor? I like the idea of sharing plants. Are plants all potted for swaps?
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Hello Bananna18, Usually one of us who doesn't mind taking the time to organize it, find a place to have it, and keep track of who will do what, starts a thread and asks if people want to do it, when, and where, and then people start listing the plants they have for trade, and reserving them for those who want them.
Normally everyone brings food and a door prize just for fun and a lot of plants and seeds, and everybody has a great time.
It is a great way to meet all the people that you have communicated with all along. We have made a lot of friends this way, people who have a lot in common with us, Gardening!!
Here is a link to a thread from last Fall, usually the threads are started well in advance of the projected date so that people will have time to prepare.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/647891/
and one to the Roundp photos forum http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/rounduppix/all/
We normally have one in the Fall here in Arlington for the DFW area, but anyone can come, we usually have people form Houston, San Antonio the Hill Country and also Oklahoma.
Are you thinking about organizing one?
Josephine.
I would love some Turks Cap if anyone has extra or cuttings. I just read that the berries and flowers are edible and make good preserves.
Toby, I can give you one or two Turk's cap, but I never heard about making preserves with them.
Would they be using the flowers? or the seedpods, I do know they are edible, but they don't have much flavor.
Josephine.
I have three large turks cap bushes but never knew you could do food with them. ????
Frostweed I think its the red berries you use for jam. They are supposed to taste slightly like apple and watermelon. I guess once you dump in a cup of sugar and pectin the flavor might come out, I dont know. The flowers and leaves are used for tea similar to hibiscus, or roses. The book I have also mentions that Persimmon leaves are high in vitamins and make a good tea along with Catmint and Peppermint. All are really high in Vitamins A&C.
Turk's Cap Jelly*
2 cups ripe and slightly underripe fruit
2 tbsp. pectin
1/2 cup sugar
Cover the fruit with water. Heat and simmer until soft, about 20 minutes. Crush the fruit and strain it through cheesecloth or a jelly bag. Add the pectin to the liquid, and bring it to a rolling boil. Add the sugar, bring to a boil, and cook for 2 or 3 minutes, until the liquid passes the jelly test. Turk's Cap fruits gel with a minimum of pectin and sugar. The amber-colored jelly has a distinctive but subtle flavor.
*from Delena Tull's book, Edible and Useful Plants of Texas and the Southwest
And it's Common Persimmon that is used for tea. Mind you, I have not tried the jelly and don't even have the Common Persimmon.
Linda, thank you for the recipe, you are very helpful and we appreciate it. I don't have the common persimmon either, but there is one in my neighborhood, I have a Japanese persimmon.
Josephine.
I am excited to see talk of swaps already too. I will actually have things to offer this year!
:) Kim