I keep it outside in the summer, the hummingbirds like it. Bring it inside in the winter if I have the room. If not I just get more at Heartland Nursery off of I-470 in Lee's Summit. It is my favorite place to go for plants. I have been known to spend several hours and much money there in the spring. They have lots of real nice plants. Then I hit the spring plant sale at Powell Gardens, and with all that I start from seeds am pretty much set for the year.
CLOSED: UNUSUAL SEED SWAP #2
I love bat-faced cuphreas, too, but I haven't seen one in years. If you two get any extra seeds at any point in the future, please let me know and let's get a trade going.
Ok, I packaged mine all up tonight. Here's what I'll be sending.....
Aster - Florette Champagne http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/110314/
Blue Lace Flower http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/883/
Columbine - Pink Bonnets http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/163993/
Datura - La Fleur Lilac http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/69809/
Flowering Cabbage - Sunrise http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/98409/
Lobelia - Blue Wings http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/112029/
Love in a Puff - http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/648/
Olive Tree - ??
Painted Tongue - Royale Mix http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/77708/
Pacelia viscida - Tropical Surf http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/151877/
Most of these will be 1 package with the exception of the olive tree which will be three and for the datura which will be 4. So, I have a total of 15 packs and these will heading to you Theresa in the next day or so! Bloom
oh i would love these please
Aster - Florette Champagne
Pacelia viscida - Tropical Surf
great list love it getting mine ready to ship out thxs again for doing this again theresa
I would love the Blue Lace and the Datura.
Here's my list I'm sending in.
Soap Tree Yucca - Aguavacae Yucca Elata
Brazillian Morning Glory - Ipomoea Setosa (Hillbilly-gran)
Cross Vine - Bignonia capreolata
Alaskan Watermelon Berry - Streptpus Amplexifolius
Black Mondo Grass - Ophiopogon Planiscapus Nigrescen
Dragon Tree - Dracaena
Easter Egg Plant - Solanum Ovigenum
Mexican Petunia - Ruellia Brittoniana
Globe Flower - Trollius Europaeus
Rock Cress - Aubrieta deltoidea
Candlestick - Senna Alata
Spotted Jewelweed - Impatiens Capensis 1 pk orange, 1 pk yellow
Hawaiian Anthurium
Brazillian Buttons - Centratherum
Maltese Cross - Lychnis Chalcedonica
My wants are
Brugs
Daturas
Poppies
Daisy - fluffy
Gaura - Whirling Butterflies
Kiss me over the garden gate
Love Lies Bleeding - both the red and the green ones
Cannas
Tropicals
Sunflowers - Peach Passion & Strawberry Blonde
Blue Lace Flower
Echinaceas
Whew that took awhile to type out. Dislexic fingers today.
Robin
I have a number of different Echinaceas, some that probably won't come true from seed however and I'll send in more
Gaura - Whirling Butterflies again for this swap. I'd love the Easter egg plant seeds. My Granddaughter just loves this plant.
Joy
Thanks Joy. I can put your name on the Easter Egg plant seeds. You don't mind if we do this Theresa? It could help you out some.
No problem Robyn...I am trying to get more easter egg plant seeds too.
I have a few extra. I'll send those in too.
i will send some in i have plenty lol
how many should i send in ? plmk
I am sending out the following on weds (in addition to what has already arrived):
Polygonatum biflorum--solomons seal
Salvia transsylvanica
Adlumia fungosa--climbing fumitory
Matelea decipiens--climbing milkweed
Verbena bonariensis--purpletop vervain
Pinellia pedatisecta--green dragon
Asclepias curassavica--mexican milkweed (red &yellow form)
Penstemon digitalis "husker red"
Asclepias purpurescens--purple milkweed
Hibiscus sabdariffa--roselle
Lysimachia atropurpurea--Beaujolais loosestrife
Talinum panniculatum--Jewels of Opar
Cymbalaria muralis--kenilworth ivy
Saccharum ravennae--Hardy pampas grass
Callirhoe involucrata--winecups
I am sending 1 pkg of each unless several of you want some--I have more of everything except the Pinellia. Everything is hardy to at least 6b or can be grown as an annual (even the talinum is root hardy here)
What do i like??
Milkweeds, salvias, penstemons,celosia, asters--hmmmmmm-never met a flower I didn't like!!
Tommie
i want some of the Cymbalaria muralis--kenilworth ivy please thxs
Mine will be in the mail in the morning Theresa.
Theresa
I have not forgotten you I just haven't gotten back to you. Yes I will send the requested seeds, when do you want them by again?
I would love the Callirhoe involucrata--winecups, please.
dylan-they need to arrive by Dec. 6th. Plenty of time :)
Robyn and everyone, after all the seeds arrive and I log them in I will give everyone an opportunity to request seeds. It worked out really well last time, with everyone getting some of the things they really wanted :)
You can always see what has arrived so far here: http://www.freewebs.com/gardenbabe/
have fun browsing. :)
today I received envelopes from angel tree baby and Beebe54.
Cool seeds you sent!
Theresa, I sent mine in today. Only about 9 or so seedpacks. I might send more later, too.
Black sesame, castor beans, dwarf yellow canna (not many seeds, and I put some black sesame in the same seed container - a two-for-one to make up for so few canna seeds), and Mexican sunflower/marigold?(tagetes).
Sent the rest of mine out today--these should get there a little faster;)
Tommie
I have some moonflower seeds - but they have to dry. Also LOTS of datura seeds - also have to dry. So please be patient. They will be on their way soon.
Cheers,
Michaela
no rush, as long as they arrive by Dec. 6th everything will be fine. :)
oh geez, Im old. I wanted to write everything will be hunky dory. LOL
Hey - I know what hunky dory means! I wonder where it come from?
You got me wondering too.... So I did a search online for Hunky dory. LOL
From World Wide Words../
[Q] From Brad Lytle: “I’m not sure how you would spell hunky dorey, but it means ‘just great’, or something like that. Where does it come from?”
[A] The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang suggests that the term may have been introduced in America about 1865 by a popular variety performer named Japanese Tommy. Other references suggest that it may have been sailors’ slang for a street in Yokohama that catered for what one might describe as the special needs of sailors. In Yokohama today a broad thoroughfare called Honcho-dori runs from the centre of the city to the port area, so one that would have been familiar to sailors (dori is the Japanese word for a road, in particular a broad or important one).
What seems certain is that hunky-dory was a play on an existing sense of the word hunky for something that was fine, splendid or satisfactory. In turn, this probably derives from the adjective hunk, which means that one is all right or in a safe or good position. This derives from the Dutch honk, meaning “goal” or “home” in a Frisian variant of the game of tag. This word (and presumably the game, too) was said to have been taken by the Dutch to New Amsterdam, later New York, but was first recorded only around the 1840s. It has links to another reduplicated term, hunkum-bunkum. Though the first part sounds a bit like the hunker of hunker down (which is also of Dutch origin), the words seem not to be related.
It may be that hunky-dory was the result of a bilingual pun, perhaps invented because American sailors knew the word dori and prefixed it with hunky as an imagined Japanese street of earthly delights.
Cool! thanks.
thanks Joy for the entertaining explanation!
WOW! Good job!
Got the unusual seeds from Bloomheaven. Logging them in at the website now.
mine went out today thxs so much
Theresa,
Seht my seeds yesterday, I hope these are unusual enough, 30 seed packs 5 of each:
(P) Clematis Tanguita - Russian Virgin Bower 25+ seeds (G) Zone 4 - fabulous and very unique when in seed mid summer to frost
(A) Datura Metel - Belle Blanche- White Single Devils Trumpet 25+ seeds (G) - profuse bloomer 3' round
(A) Collinsia Heterophylla - Chinese Houses 35+ seeds (C)
(P) Platycodon Grandiflorus - Balloon Flower Fugi Blue - 25+ seeds (G) Zone 5 - I believe this is a rarer cultivar, fabulous blue
(P) Salvia - Nemorosa - Violet Sage Ostfriesland 25 seeds (G) Zone 5 - larger variety some of mine are 2-3' across
(P) Sedum Kamtschaticum - Russian Yellow Sedum 35+ seeds (G) Zone 5 - great groundcover / rock garden addition
As well as some packs of Jack be Little Palm size pumpkin, not for trade just keep or pass on if anyone is interested. Thanks so much for organzing! Kirsti
I haven't got mine totally together yet. It's been a crazy couple of weeks, including taking my son to the docs 8x!!!! Today I'm not feeling well, so I'm hoping to get some stuff together. We had our first snow today. Here's a pic of my front door. This is a rhodie that came from May Sarton's house(a famous writer/poet) Here's a cool link about her that talks about the NH house http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sarton/blouin-biography.html
The current owners added on to the house and dug this and an ancient laurel up and had them sitting out of the ground for weeks and weeks. My DH offered to put them back in the ground there or here. They thought about it and they're addition was not close to done-they let us take them both!!! I love the shape of this rhodie. We grow MG's up it, it's very pretty. The left tree is a Tolleson's weeping juniper, behind it is a small pond.
Here's another from the snow today. The view from my windows.
I call this snow with Kabota!lol the little tree next to the tractor is a dawn redwood.
Here's the rhodie with the MG's
A few steps back
A friend in the little pond behind the weeping juniper
thanks for sharing your pics Flowerhead! Love the look of the rhodie with mg's.
Cute froggie too. :) no comment on the snow. LOL. altho since I dont work away from home anymore I love the snow even more :)
The rhodie has such a unique shape to it-perfect for MG's. I have recieved some cool new seeds from ByndeweedBeth in MG forum. I can't wait to see.
How about on more cute froggy pic.
I sent away for some of those cool MG seeds from beth too! Cant wait to grow them.
I have a feeling those MG's are going to be VERY addicting, because I am, of course, wanting UNUSUAL ones!!! lol-kath