Sounds good! Will look tomorrow what is available.
Nectar and Host Plant GROUP SEED SWAP Info
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/31655/
Is this the Sparkleberry?
Yes Melody that is the Sparkleberry I have
I'm almost there. I still have to put zones on packages. Here's what I've got on my "have" list:
4 pkgs commercial /2 varieties carrots(Botanical Interest)z3-9,host:blackswallowtail,Ozark swallowtail
2 pkgs commercial Italian Flat Leaf Parsley(Botanical Interest),z 3-9,host:same as carrots
2 commercial pkgs of Mexican Sunflower"Torch"(Botanical Interest),z 5-10,host:bordered patch,dainty sulphur,gorgone checkerspot,silvery checkerspot
2 pkgs commercial Sunflowers "Autumn Beauty"(Botanical Interest),z 4-9,host:same as mex.sunflower
1 pkgs harvested American Holly(can get more if needed),z 5-8,host:Henry's Elfin
2 pkgs harvested standing cypress,z 6-10,nectar plant/hummers & butterflies
2 pkg. harvested Disco Belle Pink Hibicus,z 4-9,host:large variety of skippers
3 pkgs harvested dogwood,z 5-9,host:Spring azure
3 pkgs commercial leadplant(amorpha)(Prairie Moon),z 2-9,host:southern dogface
4 pkgs commercial/2 varietes eupatorium(Easyliving Wildflowers),surplus from generous DGer,z 3-9,nectar,host Rawson's Metalmark,rounded metalmark
2 pkgs harvested hollyhocks "Indian Spring",z ?,host:painted lady,West Coast lady
2 pkgs green milkweed possibly a.viridis,surplus from generous gardener,z 4-8,host:Monarch
1 pkg tulip poplar,surplus from generous gardener,z 4-9,host:Eastern Tiger swallowtail
4 pkgs commercial Big Blue Stem(Specialty Seeds),z 5-9,host:arogos skipper,crossline skipper,orange-headed roadside skipper
2 pkgs Goat's beard surplus from generous gardener,z 3-9,host:dusky azure
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here's my ammended list w/zones and host/nectar
This message was edited Nov 8, 2007 7:33 AM
Would anyone be interested in oak tree acorns? Oaks are host trees for White M Hairstreak, Juvenal's Duskywing, and Horace's Duskywing. In my picture below the first tree is a Pin Oak and the one behind it is a White oak. Some of the white oak acorns are starting to germinate, I can send those in damp sand.
This message was edited Nov 7, 2007 2:38 PM
just picked a handful of night blooming Jessimine. The scent is to die for, is a moth favorite, and a beautiful plant with all the big white berries on it. I almost forgot about them lol Cestrum nocturnum
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=864851
This message was edited Nov 7, 2007 3:43 PM
Donna - Did you pick "seeds" from your night blooming Jasmine? I have one in my yard that I keep pruned short and it blooms at different times of the year. I have never seen any seeds on it though. I'm curious to know!
I have received the following envies:
Bloomheaven (Fran)
Heavinscent (Caren)
Debnes_dfw_tx (Deb) Actually a BOX of seeds! :-)
I guess I should actually post a list of participants:
1) beckygardener
2) debnes_dfw_tx (Received)
3) DonnaB
4) Melody
5) Cordeledawg
6) bigred
7) chris_lcf530
8) Shelia_FW
9) critterologist
10) tabasco
11) Heavinscent (Received)
12) Bloomheaven (Received)
13) portiaraylee
13) svplantingfool
14) blue_eyes
15) indiana_lily
16) kelboindy
I think I got everyone so far who has posted on this link asking to join in this swap. If I missed anyone, please let me know! Others can still join us as well. You've got this weekend to tag and bag a minium of 10 bags of seeds! :-)
This message was edited Nov 7, 2007 7:03 PM
yes need me to take pic of it full of seeds?? I let my grow long and lanky, didn't know it would bloom more if I cut it back
Donna - Yes, please do! I've never seen seeds in the 5 years I've had my bush. I wondered how to propagate them.
here ya go Becky. all the white dots are seeds
seed close up. I picked dry brown ones so they are ready to send
Ha! Never seen those on my plant. I wonder if it is because I prune my bush? Very interesting Donna! I love my bush and it does smell wonderful. But nothing beats my 4 O'Clocks! I walk out on my porch at night and WOWEE! It smells wonderful! :-) I do like fragrant plants/flowers!
Thank you so much for posting those photos Donna! :-)
This message was edited Nov 7, 2007 7:02 PM
Yeah Donna, Those are pretty big seeds... Whats the Sctific name for your plant? What I have is not really a true Jas its more of a J. cestrum. Still it is wonderful perfume... I have another Jas that is Sambac which I also love!
I do know I want some of those Donna! Hope I get some in my return pack:-)
debnes
My box of seeds will be in today's mail ....but I forgot the zones. I'll post the list w/zones as soon as I find all of them.
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I've been working on my labels and will finish packing everything this weekend and send out on Monday!
You know what .... I forgot to do the zones, too. Post the zones here on this thread with your list of seeds, instead please! :-)
I've ammended my list w/zones host and/or nectar. I've included a wishlist but it not set in tone but I request NO plantains or morning glories.
critter,
do you need chocolate daisy aka (attempt to spell botanical which will probably go horribly wrong)berlandier lyrata? I have some just coming off the plants.
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Whoops! Meant to attach pix.Just taken a week or so ago.
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Heh, heh, heh....my neighbors now have no doubt that I'm completely nuts (as if they didn't already think so) Harvesting plantain seeds???
That's why I asked before I did it. They're pretty much a nuisance weed for the 'Lawn Rangers' around here. I figured someone might be able to use them, but others had more than enough.
I need them Melody. I have managed to kill all I have traded for. I put them in a area that gets watered frequently and in a area that doesn't. None survived
My most flourishing patch is in a gravel parking lot over at our business. They were totally without water all summer, they dried and shrivelled. We got rain a few weeks ago and every single one of them burst to life again... go figure...
Red, thanks for the offer! I did get some seeds last year that were generously shared by the DGer who ID'd my plant as NOT-Chocolate-Daisy (as in, "I'm not sure what you're growing there in that photo, but it's not Chocolate Daisy... however, if you Dmail me, I will send you some real Berlandiera lyrata seeds). I WS'd them and got some nice plants that I'm overwintering in pots.
However, in case of disaster, I would *love* to have some extra seeds. That's a plant that I really want to grow in my garden! Does it really smell like chocolate to you?
I'll be back home this weekend, and so far the cats have resisted making "wildflower mix" out of the seeds on the dining room table, so I should have some seeds to send for this swap!
I have learned thru DG, What is weed to one is a treasure to another. (Just like one mans trash....) I am so amazed how things that grow rampant around here, that we have a hard time killing, Grows so differently in another zone, and is actually wanted there.
Do you realize, some seed sites actually have dandilion seeds for sale???
PS. I want chocolate Daisys!!!
I think every garden should have Chocolate Daisies *and* not-Chocolate-Daisies. They're both butterfly magnets, with very similar lemon-yellow blooms. Chocolate Daisies are much shorter, and fragrant, so they'd make a nice plant for the front of the border. My taller Helianthus is nice in the middle or toward the back of the bed... :-)
kelboindy, I grew up in MA, where the pefect lawn police blasted those sunny dandelions with every pesticide known to man, and still they persevered! Now I live in FL, and I've had friends send seed down from New England, as well as bought some. It grows well here in the late fall and through the winter, but rarely survives the summer, and I've never found any self seedlings.
I grow it to add to my salad mixes, it adds a nice bitter bite to the blend and it's really good for you too. My neighbor's dad saw it growing at one point and was flabbergasted.
I'm actually out of seeds at the moment, hoping my current plant will produce a few flowers next spring. Anyone sending dandelion seeds in? Teehee.
Cathy
OMG Cathy, come summer I can send you all the seeds you can handle!!! When my DD was little, now 26, she said "Mom, we have the prettiest front yard in the whole neighborhood", I asked her why she thought that, she said, "Nobody else has all those pretty little yellow flowers" I about fell over laughing at that, and soon after bought all the dandilion killer I could get.
Thta's so funny! Out of the mouths of babes. We had quite a collection of them in our yard too, DD just mowed 'em down every week and us kids of course blew those seedheads everywhere!
Ok....just went outside with the intention of harvesting a bunch of coral nymph salvia seeds only to find that they're all gone. I think a few windy days we've been having took most of them out. But the plant is blooming its head off so if anyone wants that I will have some later on. I did manage to find pink starlet morning glory and tall pink celosia (hummers loved this). Other things I took seeds from were not really butterfly plants. I hope I have enough for the 10 packets.
Kim
Oh, and I forgot I also have lots of passiflora incarnata seeds.
blue_eyes - My passiflora incarnata fruit still is not ripe. Maybe they will be by Thanksgiving weekend when I plan to get all the seeds sent out to everyone. Please send some seeds for the swap if you have room to add them in your envie!
I am going to update in the first post of this thread so everyone will know who I have received seeds from. That way everyone knows where to find the post of updates to check to see if I have received their envies!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/editpost.php?pid=4133465
I will be tagging and bagging my seeds for the swap this weekend. I was waiting to see what everyone else was sending so that I could add some different seeds to add to the selection. I will start a new thread on October 17th with the list of seeds. At that time, everyone can look over the list and let me know your "wish" list!
What I have gotten so far is amazing! No kidding! We have some very generous seed harvesters among us! :-) The newbies are gonna love this swap! :-)
This message was edited Nov 9, 2007 12:07 AM
FYI everybody! Keep in mind when you get your seeds from Becky>...
On the small plant name label I put on the seeds I typed some letter codes:
A and P in red is whether annual or perennial.. Then I put a blue N for Nectar and a Green H for host plant.
examples:
"Candletree-Cassia alata A/P N H" I put A/P both bc in zone 9 and southward, they grow as perennial.. North of zone 9 they grow as an annual.
"Hollyhock-Malva sylvestris - P N H
first letter A/P, A or P in red
second N in blue
third H in green
Some were mainly H and some were mainly N so I just put the one that applies most.
Thought you guys would like me to make that clearer.. lol. When you get your seeds it should make sense.
debnes
This message was edited Nov 9, 2007 10:52 AM
Debnes, I like your code! I'm fine tuning my labels, maybe I can squeeze in something similiar. Sure makes it easier for us newbies!
Cathy
Thanks Cathy! I hope it helps everyone,
Here is an example of the labels I cut out little strips for each package
(My Name is on a separate label, of course.)
I used full page label paper with no perfs, Perforations weren't always lining up right..
debnes
Deb - Leave it to you to come up with such a great idea!!!! Thanks for sharing that. I may modify my labels as well and use your idea! :-) :-)
Here's Cordeledawg's prelim. seed list. Labels made but not all the seeds are packaged yet. Will finish up this weekend.
Host:
3 -Asclepias curassavica Open Pollinated 'Silky Gold' Mexican Milkweed
Perennial Zone 8-11 Host for Monarch & Queen
4 white 2 red Hibiscus coccineus Scarlet pkgs and White pkgs of Star Hibiscus
Perennial Zone 6-11 Host for the Hairstreak & Painted Lady
3 Cleome hassieriana Spider Flower
Annual Host for the Whites
Nectar
:( can' find my sack of seeds :( Tithonia diversifolia Yellow Mexican Sunflower
Perennial Zone 9-11
4 Galliardia x grandflora Blanket Flower
Perennial Zone 4-11
4 Verbena bonariensis Purple Top Verbena
Perennial Zone 7-11
This message was edited Nov 12, 2007 8:14 AM
Sounds great, Deborah!
My package is winging it's way south as of this morning! should arrive on Tues. I sent by Priority.
I just finished packing everyhting into the envelope and will bring it to the post office Monday morning. Yippee!
I put common name, latin name, annual or perennial/zone info, and host/nectar on each envelope, along with my name and DG "stage name." This is my first go-round in a seed swap, so please, if I've missed something or made a mistake on a label, drop me a line so I can improve my labels. I've saved them all in the computer, so I'll be ahead of the game next time!
DH thinks I'm a little loopy, taking such enjoyment from packaging seeds and labeling them, but I find it very relaxing!
Cathy
