seed I am just starting to collect. This is a native perennial wildflower that goes on and off the endangered list all the time. When it wa s endangere d here I started cultivating it and now have a nic e patch of it growing.
To locals I share the plants, to others I share the seeds to keep this beautiful plant growing. The seed s are the devils own to collect. I only collect so many seed and let the rest go wild to keep the plants from going endangered again.
These are beautiful plants and are food for hummingbirds and several butterflies that come into my area.
These plants do best in a shaded area under or around trees and in an area that has lot s of natural leaf mulch.
If you would like to help keep this plant growing not only to keep it off the endangere d list, but to help feed buterflies and hummers, then Dmail with your addy.
I wil keep a list of names and just go down it one at a time in the order name s are submitted til the seed is gone. There will be anywhere's from 5 to ten seeds in the packet. The seeds are slow to ripen and only ripen two pods at a time, so it will take a cours e of several weeks to keep gathering seed, so have patience. The seeds do not have along shelf life so I want to get them out to folks as soon as possible.
Once you get the plants going and plant them out side you will need to put a marker of where you plante d it. This plant goe s dormant and when it first starts puttign up it's leave s you may just forget and think it a weed and either pull it out or mow it down. Dummy me did that with a few plants. : (
CLOSED: I have Indian Pink Spigelia marilandica
Star,
This one has been on my want list for a long time, sending you a Dmail.
Alice
I've always wanted this! Yay!
I'll send the particulars Dmail, but I am also in the address exchange.
Thanks for the offer,
Suzy
Star
I will be doing a partially shaded garden between two oak trees next Spring. Will begin on it this fall/winter. Would the seeds be ok if I waited to plant then?
Anne
P.S. I have some seeds (a few) for a yellow butter fly bush. I have other colors but they haven't bloomed/seeded yet. Would you like a trade?
I'd love some seeds, too! Ya know if it might attract hummers, I'm willing to give it a go! :-) Am d-mailing you!
Got everybody who dmaile d so far, plus everybody up above and still have enough seed definately for 15 more people ....... after that not sure.
PamSue... Send me yoru addy. I hate to say this but when I have lot s of reuests , I get dizzy runing back and forth to the exchange and then I get lost sometime s and forget people accidentaley.
Aunt Anne... Send me your addy. If your gonna wait to plant then I would put in the fridge to hold them. I wouldn't trust viablility after that though.
I'd love some!
I am so glad I saw this! Me please! I have lots of shade here and get hummingbirds so it will be perfect here.
I bough a plant this year, but if no one else wants them I will plant them, how long does it take a plant to make a nice patch? This is a very interesting plant and I am hoping it will be fun to grow.
Sandra
I've wanted this for a long time, too, I'm so glad I saw this. I hope you have enough for me!
I would simply LOVE to try some seed of this :) It will be treasured on my island bed next to the lady slippers :)
D-Mailing my information immediately :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
If you are interested, I pollinated my 7 all white Lady Slippers this spring and have 7 ripening pods :) I would be happy to share some seed with you to scatter in your leaf mold :) I think it takes 2-3 years before your first bloom but they are breath taking!
Kim
Sandra..... Takes several years. One thign I did discover is the first year, usually it sends up one skinny stalk and will bloom. I foudn out that if you want the plant to bush out then after blooming right before it starts to go dormant I give em a hair cut and then they start branchign out the following year.
I do some to make full plants and I leave some alone and just let them do what they do naturally.
Somethgin els e with this plant. After the bloom it sends a single stalk for a seed pod. You cannot think yoru gonan wait til all the seeds turn to collect. Other wis e you'll never get any. LOL The seeds do not turn a total brown before they explode. The seed pods start out all green then they start developing this brown line. it is the line that will split open the two little seed balls . When thos e two little seed balls split then each of them wil explode and send out the seed which is tiny like black grains of pepper maybe a bit bigger. Sometimes there is only oen big seed in each seed ball and sometime s there are thre e or four. Ya never knwo what you will get. Just plant them all.
What happens as yoru patch develops the plants wil cros s pollinate with each other and sometime s ya get a extra wild gene in there.
Also, this plant ripens the pods on the bottom first. two balls at a time. Once I se e the brown /black line s developing I go out and genty pull and try to twist the bottom pods off. If they come of f easily then cut rest of the seed stalk off, put ina deep jar or vase and gently lay a paper towel over the top of it. If not you'll be doing what I did the first day I picke d em. Starte d ducking cuz it soudn slike a kids opo gun goign off.
LOL as I am sittign here I am listenign to seed balls explod e in a mason jar. Bought jumped out of my skin the one day cuz was cleanign the counter and had been quiet for awhile and then darn thign exploded open a pod next to me . I was ready to duck. hehehehe
here a of pic s to show the seed pod form. from a friends woode d area that I plante d some seeds in and been cultivating and now gatherign seed from too. It a wild jungle , plants all mixe d in with the vine s and weeds. Looks rough when the not in bloom, but when they are it really a spectacular scene. : )
Thank you so much for the info, I hope I can get a nice little patch going too.
Sandra
Starlight --- Thanks for the info on gathering Indian Pink seeds. I have one plant that has a few blooming stalks. I just checked and the bottom seeds had the brown stripe. I pulled them and put thim in a pint jar. I will check every day for more brown stirpes. I have some other native plants that I've never gathered their seeds but I'm trying this year......If I get some, I'll let you know.
--Gwenda
Gwenda... Just make sure ya have somethign like a piece of paper towel or notebook paper somethign thin over the top. The seeds don't scater far, but they do manage to get out of the jar and it a bear tryign to go aroudn on the floor with a magnifiy glas to find them.
if you are seeing the brown line, I would go ahead and cut the whoel stalk off and just stuf f the whole stalk in your jar. They will explode off of it.
Glad to know some other folks growing them. : )
My puter acting stuip right now about uploadign pics. If I figure out what the problem is then I wil show what a smal pile of explodign seed s looks like.
Cool.. I hope your able to gather your other native seed. Especially with crazy weather all around, ya can't go wrogn with havign natives around.
I am closing this out for now. Everybody who sent dmail, your seeds are all bagge d up and wil go out in tommorrow s mail. had gathered enough seed for eveybody to have about 25 seeds.
Here a link about them and if ya follow to the bottom it tells ya about propagation and seed starting. After I sealed all the envelopes I realized I forgot to put instructions in the envelope. Sorry folks.
Dah.................. Forgot to post the link. No brains today evidently. Thanks Becky for lettign me know. : )
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/wildlife/2002sp_spigelia.html
Ella - I got the seeds today in the mail and want to thank you so much for sharing them! I will be sowing them this weekend! Got my fingers crossed that they sprout and do well here in zone 9b-10a! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! ~Becky~
Ella,
I received my seeds today as well. I'm gonna try to get them planted today.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Jane
Ella,
I got mine today,and thanks so much for doing such a responsible gesture.We all owe you big time..I can't think of a better way to insure the multiplying of a plant. wouldn't it be a great idea for some folks here at Daves to start an endangered species seed bank for folks interested in multiplying the numbers of those plants.Just like you have done.Great Job! thanks again Don
Ella,
I received my seeds today also, thank you!!!!!
Alice
Ya all welcome. That was quick. Hopefully the west coast and northern states will get theirs soon. Just remember these are not gonna pop up in a pot in a coupel of days. Some times rare and beautiful takes time.
Don.... Your idea would be an excellent one. there are many more endangered or rare flowers and trees that need to be saved. The only thing is there are some people who may not be responsible garden gathers. Sad but true. They might in their eagerness pick to many seeds or destroy the natural ecological area aroudn which the plants grow.
I know when I gather in the wild I only take one or two seeds and that is if there is a lot of plants. That way the rest can do as nature will with. it has taken me many years to be abel to share so many seeds with folks and some people just don't have the time or patience it takes to do so.
Would be nice though if there was a forum to do this type of trading, but to also have some good knowledgable folks who are speciality seed and flower gathers to help the not so experienced learn what to look for and how to approach the plants without wiping out another endangere d species. Kind a like a rare and extintint list preservers group.
If anybody who got these seeds has problems and ya lose your seeds, or other wildlife eats em first, let me know. I have a back up reserve yet of some. Figured with thm beign new to alot of you and with the differnt areas, it may take some of ya a try or two to get them going, that why I closed this, so that you all would have good chances at them.
If any of you would liek to be a guinee pig, let me know. I have cultivated quite a rather large patch of blood root. I did gather some seed, most of which had already dispursed by the time I got to that area. I woudl like to try next month when they start going dormant of sending a coupel out in the mail to se e how they do.
here a link to a good site with the pic of the flower and the leaves
http://www.all-creatures.org/pics/wfshl-bloodroot.html
as you can se e they too are endangered. I have some pic sof my patch on my camera as I was checkign them out today. Wil try and download them later and hopefully I can get em to post without my puter crashing everytime I do.
Ella,
I'd be honored to be on guinee pig list if you need one here in zone 9B.I've got just the right spot in dappled sunlight right near where columbine and Indian pink do so well. Don
Ella I got the seed today and I thank you so much!
Delisa
Your welcome Delisa.
Don... great!!!!!!!! Send me another dm labled bloodroot and yoru addy again, so I'll have it ready when the time comes if ya don't mind. Will send ya several tubers to plant.
Anybody else wantign to try them, please do the same.
Ok, got the puter hopefully runnign right. here a pic of just a fraction of the patches I have cultivated over the years.
Ella, I got my seeds today thank you so very much. I have a spot for them all picked out and will plant when the time is right.
Anne
Mine got here today, too! I also have my spot all picked out and will be planting tomorrow. Thank you so much and wish me luck!
Hi Ella, I got mine today, too! I want to sow them right away. Yippeee!! I have always wanted these. Thanks you!
Suzy
Cool!!!!!!!! Glad some more of yours arrived. If somebodys shouldn't please dm mail me and let me know and wil send ya otu some more. I don't have the best po around and they mange to lose stuf f all the time.
Liek I said if ya have problems, that to be expected with some of thes e rarer plants, just dmail me and I will send ya soem more to try.
Such a sweetheart you are Ella :) Mother Nature's best helper :)
Kim
a friend gave me a plant about 5 years ago. i have been growing them and now have a large container of them. until this year i have been cutting the bloom stalks off before the seed were mature. my plants are blooming again so hopefuly by this fall i will have some seed to share. they are so pretty when they are in bloom.