Here's a picture of the "Corn Cockle" (Lychnis Coronaria) that I have. it is the same as yours--Jill.
They self-sow and spread by who knows what means....
Gita
Haves, wants for spring swap
Gita, I don't know who told you that Critter's photo isn't rose campion, but lychnis coronaria is called rose campion. It's also sometimes called corn cockle. The plant you posted is probably silene dioica or red campion or catchfly. Lychnis viscaria is also called catchfly just in case it's not confusing enough.
Corn cockle is usually referring to agrostemma. In England, some people call lychnis githago corn cockle but I've never heard it used here.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/80/index.html
http://www.robsplants.com/plants/SilenDioic.php
I grew those from seed, but my plant tag has the latin "Lychnis coronaria" on it as well as "Rose Campion," so I guess that just shows again the importance of including latin names when we talk plants!
But the more pressing question here is... who wants some? :-)
Happy, Thai basil is definitely different than regular basil... to me, it has a somewhat anise flavor. I love it in stir fry and Thai curries. It also has a really wonderful bloom, a big wide head of tiny flowers rather than the skinny flower stalk of other basils. Miata just claimed my extras, but I've still got some seeds if anybody wants them.
Critter, You can talk Basil to my husband Ric. He loves to cook. I think that the two of you will have a lot to talk about at spring swap. I think he will be interested in your herbs and how you use them.
Oooooh, maybe we can get Rick to give a cooking demonstration!
LOL, maybe I'd better bring some pesto after all... :-)
*raising hand* Critter - Me! Me! I'd love some!!
We'll see how ambitious I am -- or, more to the point, how much time I have left after packing up all the plants! But pesto pasta is pretty quick to toss together. :-)
Hart, I put you on my list for 1 helleborus foetidus.
Miatablu,
Would you have a picture of the Helleborus foetidus? It was not in PF.
I have 2 Lenten Roses already. One is the greenish white, the other is the deep pink/maroon.
If no one else has asked, and if it is different from my two, I would like to claim your third one.
Thanks, Gita
I'll bring along a couple of the seedlings Miata gave me, so she can swap them for other goodies. I think she said the parent plant had green/white blooms.
Here is a picture of Helleborus foetidus in PF...looks really cool!!:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/68374/
- Brent
Now Critter, I gave those to you, so you swap them for something you want. Gita, between me or Critter we'll be sure you get one. I'll save one for you and we can work out the rest at the swap. And it is very different than the Lenten Rose, you'll love it.
Showing my ignorance.....
I thought Helleborus and the Lenten Rose are one and the same?????
Is it just a matter of color? The pictures in the PF look like the green/white one I have. Hmmmm.....
Gita
H. foetidus is a different species than H. orientalis, the species generally referred to as "Lenten Rose."
Miata's hellebore has the unfortunate common name of "Stinking Hellebore" LOL... I think I'll refer to mine as "Bear's Foot," the other common name given in PF. http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1394/index.html
Gita you're right, a Lenten Rose is a kind of Helleborus, it just looks a lot different than the foetidus. Hellebores come in all shapes and sizes. Here's another type I have, a Corisican Hellebore, that I hope will volunteer some babies some day http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/showimage.php?eid=123983. The saw toothed leaves are really cool.
I see Critter beat me to clarification. The only time I referred to mine as the Stinking Hellebore is when it broke as in "I lost my stinking hellebore!". It doesn't really stink so I don't know where that common name came from. You do have to be very careful I hear when handling it though as I hear it's very irritating to the skin. I've never had a problem with that though. Here's some more about it. http://www.hellebores.org/foetidus.html
LOL... My SIL up in Boston picked one up last summer despite its name and was happy when the blooms were not stinky... she fell in love with the foliage, so she was willing to run the risk of funkiness!
If anyone here can identify this stuff (no one seemed to be able to in the plant id forum) I've got plenty if anyone wants some.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/715992/
Great for erosion control even though I have no clue what it is.
I think it might be a type of Euonymus... I'll see if I can find a similar looking entry in PF and post on your thread...
critter- your siberian bugloss is new to me so that would be great. corydalis baby, well if it makes it , good if not or you need it for your mom no sweat. I can't imagine where I could put everything if I get even trades!!
I am editing my old H/W post- let me know if any particluar wants.
Sally, I still want as much of your lamiastrum as I can get my greedy little paws on.
I have plenty of clustered bellflower and prickly pear. I have an old moss rose that gets no diseases whatsoever. This isn't the moss rose annual, it's a rose. We can get you some cuttings from that. Also there's a rose growing in the woods in front of the house - Barbara Perkins - small pink flowers, climbs trees, and we can dig you up some of those. It looks like a Fairy rose only it probably grows 20 feet tall.
BTW, it's not a wild rose. It's something that was planted a long time ago over there before the trees grew up.
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Sally - if you still have it I would LOVE to try the Calycanthus!! What is its scent like?
OOooohh, me please for the climbing pink 'Barbara Perkins' rose, Hart... is it too much to hope that it's also fragrant? Bluespiral sent me a huge climber that had outgrown her yard, had to be cut way back for shipping, but I'm so happy to see it leafing out now! Hers is pretty thorny, but I think thorny might be just the thing to plant on the far side of our fence row of trees in an attempt to limit (or at least direct) future traffic through the yard & garden once the development goes in behind us.
BTW, I checked PF and didn't find a "Barbara" but there's a 'Dorothy Perkins' listed... is this similar to yours? http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/104139/index.html
Sally, I potted up 3 larger pots for my mom and one for me, and there's a 6-pack of Brunnera mac. seedlings with your name on it.
I'm putting seedlings for the swap in deep cell packs when possible, figuring that people can up-pot them or plant them out when they've filled the cell packs with roots. Yesterday, I potted up a whole flat (3 dozen cells) of extra Columbine seedlings... :-)
Critter, I'm sorry, it is Dorothy Perkins. It's light pink. Some of the pictures in PF show it much darker than it is but I've found you have to kind of take some PF photos with a grain of salt depending on the camera, lighting. The third picture down is pretty accurate. They might be blooming when you all are here. They bloom about that time.
I haven't ever noticed any scent but then the flowers are usually way up in a tree.
There's oodles of them growing over there in the woods and along the edge.
I have another one that self sowed next to one of the black walnuts. Looks exactly like the pink one and appears to be getting ready to climb that walnut but it has clusters of tiny little white flowers. You might want to get some cuttings from that one too.
BTW, roses aren't supposed to be able to live next to a black walnut but this one is thriving.
Hart, your rose sounds like one that grew "wild" along the roads where I grew up... very pretty, although they sure will take over if they can. My grandmother and I transplanted a little one next to the driveway at my folks', and it grew all over the bank there until my mom decided it was trying to take over a bit too enthusiastically... she had a tough time getting rid of it, too! But I think it might be a great solution to the prospect of kids traipsing through my lily bed. :-)
Critter - I fixed the "traipsing" issue (both kids and dogs - not mine)...I have a mini cactus patch - now THAT'S funny!! No one goes thru my front yard any more...sure the HOA is thrilled with my "landscaping"
The poison ivy that I'm battling back there would also be a deterrant... if anyone knew it was there. *sigh* I'm getting tired of warning the kids not to go into the tree row because of the poison ivy! I sprayed back there yesterday, hopefully knocked it back... will just keep spraying brush killer back there this summer and not worry if I lose saplings or "desirable" brush... simply have to get that poison ivy under control, especially since I had a bad outbreak earlier this spring.
The thing about roses is that they look friendlier than cacti... until you try to pass through them! LOL
chantell- to me this calycanthus smells like cantalope or strawberry, varies with time of day or age of flower or something. It's a relative of magnolia. You sure can have it, and I can bring more. In my soil it suckers a lot when its big. golden yellow fall color.
hart- i have three pots of lamiastrum plants packed together and could grab more cuttings that day!
critter- thanks!
I was out today digging lots of hyacinth and some daffs that are ready and found another dogwood to pot- I get lots of self sown dogwoods.
I think I will be in seventh heaven at the swap!
Hart (and anyone else) - I have a little Lamium maculatum 'Purple Dragon'. Interested? Plus a more common and less tidy lamium.
--- Edited to say I just realized I already have you down for the regular Lamium.
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I picked up a pot of 'Purple Dragon' this year and I love it! If it multiplies the way 'Orchid Frost' did for me, I'll have plenty of it by next year.... really neat silver leaves, set off by a thin edge of green... :-)
Sally, assuming I can get some of those Corydalis seedlings potted up and looking decent for you, I would love a baby dogwood... I've tried fall/winter sowing berries from my mom's trees, but no luck so far. I think the deer in her yard munch the volunteers before I can get them.
I'm trying to get as much ajuga, lamium and lamiastrum as I can get to cover the long slope along the driveway because it's impossible to mow. I got a little bit of ajuga and lamium last year and both are doing very well there.
Critter, I have lots of prickly pear and I'll bet that would keep anyone out of the lily bed. Beautiful yellow blooms too. Lots of yucca too. That will do a good job of guarding your lilies.
I'll pot some more dogwoods. They are abundant here, but I do have trouble with rabbits? eating the branch tips over winter. American hollies seedlings all over too.
Creeping phlox- I think somebody wants. I have trouble getting it dug up, so little roots . Any tips?
Four o'clock seedlings anybody want?
If you mean Phlox subulata, I got a "sheet" of it in a DG trade... tiny roots, but I potted up sections and just waited until the roots grew down into the pots well, then I planted it out.
American hollies are lovely, also... I've tried moving a couple of them from my in-law's yard, but I don't think my FIL got enough of the tap root when he dug, plus we were trying in the heat of August... I'd certainly be happy to have a couple, but only if you have time to get them dug... I'm hoping mine will start making volunteers one of these years!
Hart,
I can go next door to my neighbor's empty house and dig up a lot of Ajuga if you are not getting enough of it from anyone else. I do not know of all the varieties, but this is the one with the dark maroon leaves and pink (?) flowers. I won't pot it up, just put it dug up in a box or something for you. In other words--this won't be for a "trade". Call it a "house warming gift!....:o)
I have a tradition that when I go to someone's house for the first time, I bring a plant--or some small gift I made.
Let me know. Gita
*ears perking up*
Pink flowers? I've got some ajuga started (burgundy leaves also), but it has blue flowers.... pink sounds very nice....
Thought I'd take a poll to see if there would be much interest in tomato plants by you lot. I may still have an overabundance of cherry, pear and heirloom tomatoes (Atkinson, Brandywine, Mortgage Lifter).
I know it's getting a wee bit late in the seasons, but If I sent a bunch of these plants down to the swap, would you / could you use them?
LOL... I may be doing the same thing... the person who was going to take my remaining orphan tomatoes has turned them down except for maybe a couple that her other daughter wants... somehow, she put in 400 plants already, LOL.
Hey, Hart -- you don't have a row plowed up in your garden where orphan tomatoes could find a home, do you?
Gita, that would be lovely! I don't care what kind and pink flowers sound pretty. Maybe I'll be able to scrounge enough ajuga and lamium from you all to do that entire slope this year. It's not very tall but runs the length of the driveway, which is long.
Check with me in a week, Critter. I might have room for them.
Critter - I would be more then happy to take a tomatoe plant or two...do you think would do ok in a huge pot? Geez, what a begger I am - huh? LOL
I think the common wisdom is that indeterminate tomatoes (as opposed to "patio plants" that stop growing at a certain size) need at least a 5 gallon pot. The plants didn't look too rootbound yet when I was putting them out in the garden yesterday, so maybe they'll hold on another couple of weeks and still do OK. I think it's better not to subject them to potting up and then to planting out... Carolyn suggests transplanting just once (from seed tray to 2 inch pot), and her method seems to work very well for me. They're getting a little leggy, but I just dig a sloped trench and plant them so that most of the stem is buried (new roots grow from the stem also). I'll try to post a list of what's left after I finish planting and pass a few along to friends here... :-)